About working with groups
Whether you're part of a team of people, facilitating a workshop, or running a community project, working with groups is an unavoidable part of youth and community practice. I've heard the theory of forming-storming-norming-perfoming-adjourning dozens of times by now. Maybe every year since 2016. Many times from my own mouth too. But every time there's something new to discover. And with more experience in my pockets, I understand things differently.
Let me tell you something. 5 years ago I facilitated my first workshop. It was about social media. I was so anxious and I over-explained everything which was confusing. It turned out great anyway. But after that session Diana drew Kolb's cycle of experiential learning on a piece of paper and explained it to me for the first time. Today I studied it again on my Master's course in youth work. Kolb is the same, but it feels completely different now through the lens of a youth work student than it felt to the young girl.
I don't have a destination for these thoughts. I just wanted to mark them here.