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Dr.
Roger
Greenaway
email: roger@reviewing.co.uk I love developing ever better ways of doing reviewing. Most reviewing methods that you find here are ones that I have invented, developed or refined to improve the quality of reviewing in some way - whether it is to make it faster or deeper or more engaging and inclusive; whether is it to make reviewing more focused or more fun - or all of these things at the same time. After 18 years of teaching, training and trainer-training, I realised that my growing interest in reviewing skills and methods was an area of practice that is critical for success for anyone who facilitates learning from experience. For many teachers, trainers and consultants it is the reviewing process (also known as 'debriefing') that happens to be the most challenging part of their work. Exactly what people find challenging varies from one culture to another (work culture or national culture). But whatever the challenge I have found that the solution often lies in giving learners something to do that will assist their reflection and their ability to communicate their experiences and ideas to others. I firmly believe that the ability to learn from experience is one of the most important skills that a person can have. So I train people to develop ways in which they can help those they work with to learn from what they do. Effective reviewing skills are at the heart of successful experience-based learning. That is why I chose to specialise in 'Reviewing Skills Training'. |
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Active and creative reviewing techniques (basic or advanced) ...
What I contribute to active learning ...
My ideas about facilitation ...Facilitation is about making learning easy [but not too easy - see my article on 'The Art of Reviewing']. We can facilitate learning by...
How I started ...I
provided my first
training course in reviewing skills in 1983 while I was
working
for the Brathay Hall Trust - still very much a centre of
innovation in
development training with youth and adult courses.
In 1993, with the publication of my second handbook about reviewing Playback: A Guide to Reviewing Activities (for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award), I decided to make reviewing skills training my main specialism. I have been training trainers, educators and facilitators ever since - in the fields of youth and adult training and education. (See my client list.) What I provide and where ...I
have worked in 36
countries as well as throughout my home country (the
UK)
to provide training
and consultancy
in reviewing and related skills. There seems to be no limit to
the
kinds of environment (indoors or outdoors) in which people
want to
develop reviewing and
facilitation skills. I enjoy the challenge of developing new
ways to
adapt and apply these skills in new situations.
I have provided training in reviewing skills in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Macau, Malaysia, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and the USA. I have also presented workshops at EEEurope conferences in Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy and Slovenia. And I have worked as a trainer and facilitator in the UK, Ethiopia and Iran. Clients and costs ....I
provide training and consultancy throughout the UK and
worldwide for
developing practical debriefing (reviewing) and facilitation
skills.
Management DevelopmentWhile
working at Brathay (1981-87) I designed, marketed, facilitated
and
directed outdoor management development programmes. Clients
were from
banking, retail, industrial and public sectors, including IBM,
JLP,
Barclays, Plessey and Sainsburys. My PhD was a study of
Powerful
Learning Experiences in Management Learning and Development
(University
of Lancaster, 1995). Since 1995, my primary involvement with
management
development has been in training providers of management
development
programmes in facilitation and reviewing skills (see 'Clients
of
Reviewing Skills Training').
In recent years I have been training managers in "Big Picture
Thinking"
and in converting reviewing methods into management tools.
Published writing on reviewing / debriefingRoger's Articles
on
debriefing include:
Active Reviewing, The Group Relations Training Association (1983), How Transfer Happens, Brathay's Organisation Development: Topical Papers (2002); The Art of Reviewing, The Journal of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning (2002); Practical Debriefing (2004) and Training for Transfer (2005) both in Fenman's Trainer-Training series. Roger's Chapters on debriefing include: Facilitation and Reviewing in Outdoor Education in 'The RHP Companion to Outdoor Education' (2003); and Dynamic Debriefing in ‘The Handbook of Experiential Learning' (2007); The Value of Other Ways of Learning and Development in 'Other Ways of Learning' (2008); Reviewing and Reflection: Connecting People to Experiences with Clifford Knapp in 'The International Handbook of Outdoor Studies' (2016). Roger's Books on debriefing include: More Than Activities (1990) Playback: a Guide to Reviewing Activities (1993) Reviewing Adventures : why and how? (1996) Active Reviewing (2015) More details of articles, chapters and books are in my full list of publications. I also regularly publish my own articles about reviewing / debriefing here in: The Active Reviewing Guide. Workshops and presentations on reviewing / debriefingWorkshops
at conferences include:
Active
and Creative Reviewing, Washington
DC (1994); Processing
the Experience - a Balancing Act, AEE, Nova
Scotia (1996); Moving
Bodies,
Moving Minds, EEE, Italy
(2001); Visual Voices,
EEE, Netherlands (2003); Expanding
Experience, EEE, Czech Republic (2004);
Learning from
Reality and Learning from Metaphor, EEE, Turkey
(2005); Making and Using
Metaphor Maps, EEE, Germany (2006); Seeking
New and Better Ways of Learning, EEE, Scotland
(2007);
Generating
Participation and Developing Questioning Skills,
EARCOS,
Thailand (2007); 'Less is
more' applied to programmes and activities, EEE, Estonia
(2011); Seeing the Big Picture: zooming in and zooming out,
EEE, Slovenia (2011); Highways
and Byways: Ten Time-Savers for Facilitators of Learning,
Metalog, Germany (2013); Reviewing
Often: "always on" reflection, EEE, Hungary (2013);
Learning from triumphs and
disasters, Poland (2014); Experiential
learning in the workplace, EEE, Italy (2015); The Experience of Reviewing,
EEE, Romania (2016); Quick
and Inclusive Reviewing, Festival of Outdoor
Learning, Lindley (2016). Also see
this list of workshops offered by Roger
Presentations include: The Transfer of
Learning and
Development (keynote), Germany (2004); Why
Active Reviewing? How can we
use it with teams?, Business-Edu, Romania (2007); Reflecting with
Energy (keynote), ICEL, Santiago, Chile (2011); The Game After the Game
(keynote), Agile Games, Boston, USA (2013); Strategies
and methods for reviewing with large groups,
Metalog, Germany (2013); Experiential
Learning: What makes it work well? (keynote),
Experiential Education Pakistan, Karachi (2016).
Clients of Reviewing Skills TrainingClients
I have worked for include:
Ashridge Business School, England; AS
Training and Consulting, Romania; Centrex National Police
Training,
England; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit,
Ethiopia; RAF Cranwell, UK; Organisationspsykologerne,
Denmark;
Industrial
Management Institute, Iran; Interaction Learning and
Development,
England; I Will Not Complain International, China and Japan;
Institute
of Adventure Counselling, Hong Kong; Schouten and Nelissen,
Netherlands; Professional Way, China; Adventure Learning,
Chile;
Tshwane University of Technology, University of
Witwatersrand, South
Africa; Youth in Adventure, Namibia; Management Development
Network,
UK. (See my full client listing
and testimonials)
Roger's EducationBA
(Hons) American Studies, University of East Anglia, 1973; PGCE
(Distinction), Bangor, UCNW, 1975; PhD in Management Learning,
University of Lancaster, 1995.
Contact If you have
any
questions or comments please write to me at
roger@reviewing.co.uk
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Reviewing Skills TrainingPractical, inspirational and flexible trainingthat helps to make your courses more satisfying, effective and successful. For the latest information about workshops, seminars, training, consultancy and publications, or for enquiries about tailor-made events, please contact: Roger
Greenaway, Reviewing Skills
Training
9 Drummond Place Lane STIRLING FK8 2JF SCOTLAND tel/fax +44 (0)1786 450968 during office hours GMT (UK time) e-mail: roger@reviewing.co.uk View my public profile on LinkedIn NEXT: The Mission of Reviewing Skills Training [Workshops are introduced on a separate page.]
Mission,
Vision & Values
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DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONSSome of the terminology in the Mission Statement may not travel well, so here is a clarification of the terms used in the mission, vision and values statements above.
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