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Hovelynk, Johan – Horizons, 2000
Views experiential learning as metaphor development. If a participant's enactment of a personal metaphor leads to an impasse during an adventure activity, this moment of "stuckness" is an opportunity to develop new images that generate new options for action. Facilitators must be sensitive to such situations and assist in widening…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Strategies, Experiential Learning, Individual Development
Hovelynk, Johan – Horizons, 2000
"Moments at the edge" occur when adventure participants reach the boundaries of their assumptions and mental frames and are ready to experiment with a new, more successful, mindset. Facilitators can support this experiment if the moment is recognized. Several indicators of the edge are described, and a case study of "edgework"…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Attitude Change, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures