The Learning Quest is an invitation to explore a different way of learning. Most learning at university starts with a question that already has an answer somewhere: in a book, an article, a lecture, or on the internet. The Learning Quest invites you to learn not only from external sources, but also from your own experience, intuition, and relationship with the world around you.

The workshop begins with exploring a personal learning question. This is a question about a theme that is currently present in your life and that you would like to understand more deeply. Your question takes the form: I want to learn... (*)

Rather than immediately looking for answers, you take your question on a Quest.

During the Quest, you enter into a conversation with the world around you. You walk, observe, notice what catches your attention, and allow yourself to be surprised. A tree, a bird, a stranger, a winding path, a sudden insight, anything can become part of the dialogue.

The idea is not that the world gives you the answer, but that it can help you see your question from a different perspective. By paying attention to associations, emotions, and experiences, you may discover insights that were already present within you, waiting to be noticed.

Even if you do not have a burning question right now, this workshop can help you learn the practice itself, so that you can return to it whenever an important question, challenge, or transition arises in your life.

As part of the workshop, we will literally go on a Quest outdoors. Please check the weather forecast beforehand and dress accordingly.

(*) Examples of learning questions:

I want to learn balance
I want to learn expressing myself both lovingly and openly
I want to learn choosing for myself
I want to learn feeling
 want to learn dealing with stress that choices bring
I want to learn trusting
I want to learn what makes me tick
I want to learn being in my power

Please note that this seminar can count as a module of the ‘Personal Professional Skills Lab’ for FSW bachelor students of IRO, Political Science, Psychology and Cultural Anthropology studies. 
Log in at www.learningmyway.nl to add this seminar to your PPSL modules, and answer the reflection questions before you come to the seminar.