Modern Living and Modern Learning

Modern Living and Modern Learning

I’m fairly quiet in the DPG community circles, mostly because I’m fairly active on my own blog and on Twitter. I do enjoy the content and dedication that the community have here, and it’s one of the few I’ve maintained as a source of content over a period of years.

I’m particularly interested in the field of positive psychology and what this tells us about modern life, wellbeing and resilience. There are a number of insights that I’d like to share with the group. One is that we’re better able to deal with tough things in life when we have a bank of good things happening. If we’re going through difficult times, and we aren’t doing enough ‘self-care’ type activities, it’s likely we’re going find it harder to be resilient and come out stronger from those things.

Another is that it helps us to understand the importance of appreciation and strengthening relationships. Research has shown that when we not only tell our loved ones that we appreciate them, but also why – it helps them and us to feel good about ourselves for longer, and we can build stronger relationships as a result.

I take a lot of this and apply it to what happens at work, too. When I’m facilitating a learning session, what I do is ensure that people have built some rapport and connection with each other so that they have the trust and confidence in each other to have robust and open conversations. There’s a lot to be said for building strengths of individuals, teams and skills – how can we do this in ways which are supportive of adult learning principles?

One method which many talk about is in creating a community of practise – much like this DPG Community. Give people a space to explore a topic for themselves, with the right kind of support and they’ll commit to making things happen themselves.

Modern learning has to take into account how we use digital technology – not just in the creation of digital communities, but also in how we design better e-learning to how we use technology in face to face sessions. Consumer and app behaviour tells us a lot about what people expect from the design of technology and interfaces. If it’s not easy to use, if the content isn’t the right kind of quality, and if it’s not easily consumable, then it’s a poorly designed e-learning. With video capability being built in as a core function in most social networks, people are expecting learning to be as easy to access as a video.

There’s a lot to explore in this space. Modern living and modern learning are creating all sorts of new insights that can be hard to track, hard to understand and hard to know what to do with them. It’s why I’m putting on some workshops about these, the details of which you can find below. In the meantime, I’m happy to have ongoing conversations about these topics and together we’ll learn some more.

Positive Psychology & Modern Learning Workshops

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