We have launched the podcast. So yay. So far, we have published the beginning episodes of this season of learning through experience focused on mentorship. And it's been a lot more work than I thought, it's also been a lot more fun than I thought, this is a little bit of a check in this is my walking the talk, not only do I believe in this work, I really try to live out the things that I believe in. Rather than just teaching and professing about learning through experience. I'm also sitting here with you in a podcast episode that I think will be a regular thing called a check in. And the reason to do a check in is that in our busy, busy, busy lives of doing doing doing all of the time, we don't necessarily have time to reflect and take a step back, we have to actually make time to reflect and take a step back. John Dewey said, we don't learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. And so in order to produce learning through our experiences, and from our experiences, we each take a step back and reflect. So these check ins are reflection sessions, a chance to get a little bit of a distance from the active doing of podcasting and say, What am I learning? So, I'm leaning on a tried and true reference point, embodied in one form the Kolb's Learning Cycle, David Cole put together this learning cycle, which is a do reflect apply a prescription of a process that can help adults especially learn from and through life experiences. And so you know, something that I do with clients and students and myself and colleagues and friends. And it's just part of the way that I think of as living a good unexamined life and living more consciously, to be able to have this kind of process available. Sometimes when people ask me, like, you know, what are you doing, I have to kind of back up to to find the process. Because for me, it's so integrated into the way that I the way that I live, but I actually have to back up a little bit into what are the steps and process to this. There's a way in which I feel so alive in the classroom and an advisory spaces with students and clients, you know, that I'm able to fight for them. So the podcast is a very different expression for me, where there's not a concrete live audience that I'm fighting for improvisationally. And so this stretches me to be able to use my voice differently. So it's important to me that the podcast is not just a prescriptive, distant set of things that people listen to passively, but that it's a co created space where people are invited to step into their own lives, with some curiosity from how learning might be part of the experiences that we're having. This has been an episode of learning through experience. I'm your host, Heidi Brooks. This podcast is produced through the Yale School of Management. The editor is Miranda Schaefer. Please like and subscribe to learn more who has experience with me and the wisdom of the guests who join me to talk about our learning our way through the experience of life.
