Experiential learning for team coaches

Experiential learning training for team coaches

Team4Teams and the Scale of Cooperation join forces for this experiential learning training for team coaches. If, besides theoretical knowledge about cooperation, leadership and coaching skills, you also want to learn how to use experiential learning in a valuable way in team development processes, then this training is for you!

Team coaching, communication, and leadership training is ultimately very much about behaviour, and then it helps enormously to experience this in the training using active forms of work. That way, you don't just have to talk about things that once happened on the shop floor, but we can also look in the here and now at what everyone does and what effect this has on others.

During the four days of training, you will learn:

• The basic principles behind experiential learning
• Dealing with safety in experiential learning
• Organising, explaining and guiding activities well (and differentiating)
• Linking/combining reflection methods with activities
• Your role/attitude/mindset as a coach working with experiential learning
• And, of course, a whole host of powerful exercises that you can apply immediately

Structure:

The training consists of a two-day course followed by two further separate days. Between the practical days, there is time for self-reflection, possible homework assignments, studying literature and possibly observing a training session. The training is most effective if you also have opportunities to put what you have learned into practice between the days.

Practical:

• Dates: 19&20 June, 12 September and 10 October 2025
• Locations: Ernst Sillem Hoeve (Den Dolder), Rozenlust (Rotterdam) and Kaap Doorn
• Trainers: Floor Vullings and a different expert from Team4Teams for each training day
• 8 to max. 12 participants
• Cost: €1250 ex VAT including all meals (and overnight stay at the two-day course)
• For whom: facilitators, trainers, coaches, supervisors of groups (young people and/or adults)

Preconditions:

• The course is a mix of practical assignments with theoretical underpinning, which requires an HBO thinking/working level.
• Some experience in working with groups is desirable.
• You will experience as well as stand in front of the group yourself during the training, be prepared for that.

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Below is the outline of the programme, from which we will sometimes, as is the case with experiential learning, deviate because we find it better suited to the group's learning process at a particular moment.

nb. The names of work forms can vary considerably per organisation/country where they are used. Below are the names of working forms as we use them; you may know them by a different name, or you may know a completely different working form by one of the names below.

	Content	Working forms
Day 1	Getting to know each other Goals trajectory and individual learning goals Reflections using a Scale question Basic principles of experiential learning (Kolb) In-depth introductory exercises	Loophole   Ball factory   Duplo
Day 2	Safety in experiential learning Differentiate within forms of work	Blind rope bridge   Speedball 1.0 and 2.0

 

	Content	Working forms
Day 3	Making good contact Presenting/public speaking (standing in front of the group) Interventions during work forms	Digital access   Dancing chairs

 

	Content	Working forms
Day 4	Use of tools such as emotion maps, scenario maps and other forms of reflection   Practice explaining/organising work forms yourself.	Chutes task 2.0   Vakwerk