Listening For How Others Learn

Listening For How Others Learn

   Learning Dialogue™  Doc. No. 1   Part 1

   Doc. 1 Part 2 Collaborative Listening

It is possible to listen for how others learn.  It is also possible to share a good understanding of how you learn with others at the same time. 

When we talk about doing something together with some one else, a job or a task, or even when we talk about just entering into conversation with someone, we are talking about learning from one another and through one another.

People may approach such learning challenges from different directions, with different mental processes.  We must oreint or reorient our minds for each new learning challenge in order to be able to effectively and efficiently learn, and people have different style preferences for how they do this.

It is important to be able to listen for, share and recognize these style differences we have with one another as learners.  If we don't do this we can get in one another's way as learners and then be tempted to attribute the friction and process conflict to the apparent 'controlling behaviour,' or insensitivity of the other person.

We are naturally tempted to react defensively when someone's foot trips us up physically, and the same is true when someone else's style preferences as a learner trip us up mentally.  It is important to see what is going on with this and to be able to negotiate our personal process of learning collaboratively with others.

Document No. 1 Part 2

More, at a deeper level, about listening for learning styles...     

What are the different approaches to oreintation that we may choose as learners when facing our everyday learning challenges in life?  

On to the next doc >   Different Approaches To Our Learning Process

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