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Reflection = locking in your learning

As you now appreciate first hand, your Global Bootcamp was an intensive experience! The experience was designed to push you beyond your comfort zone in a variety of ways; while providing you with the support, resources and safety to learn from the experience.

We have designed it this way for a good reason. Evidence demonstrates that intensive experiences can lead to deep learning and transformation – especially when combined with post-experience reflection. We sincerely hope that has been the experience for you.

The learning science foundations of our pedagogy

To capture the full value of the intensive Bootcamp experience you have invested the time and energy to go through, we encourage you to take a little time in the next few days to reflect on your experience – before your memory of the experience fades!

Reflecting on your experience allows you to consciously identify and capture insights and lessons you have taken from the experience.
This helps ‘lock in’ the valuable learning from the Bootcamp.
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Reflection with colleagues = expanded learning & deeper relationships

We also encourage you to consider arranging a time for a relaxed 'coffee and connect' with your teammates and/or your open innovation table colleagues.

In addition to deepening your new professional relationships (and possibly friendships), discussing your experience and reflections with others who have been through the same experience has additional benefits.

Explaining your own ideas and insights to others creates a ‘reinforcement learning’ opportunity for you to further lock-in your learning.
Hearing others ideas and insights from the experience can expand and deepen the insights and lessons that you take from the experience.

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A learning science hint for all your learning experiences... repetition is key!

Every time you ‘repeat’ an idea or insight, your likelihood of remembering and converting a lesson into a habit goes up significantly. Reflecting individually, then discussing with others, then reflecting individually again is one sure way to capture the most value from any experience.

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Reflection Guidance

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Framing for your reflections

Intellectual and social & emotional learning (including resilience!)

Foundational Learning Outcomes

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Reflection Guidance Questions

Reflecting on your Learning Outcomes…

With reference to the foundational learning outcomes for the Bootcamp…

(1) Pick one (or more) of the Mindsets that most resonates with you, and/or that you most want to develop.
(2) Pick one (or more) of the Mental Models and/or Skills that most resonates with you, and/or that you most want to develop.

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The exercises, tools and reference materials across the Explore and Design stages of your Bootcamp learning journey have been designed to develop those mindsets, mental models and skills. For example, reviewing the Bootcamp Resources and your team workbook is a good way to deepen this reflection – as is discussing them with your teammates.

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Reflecting on how to apply your lessons to your career and life…

(3) What issues and/or communities do you most want to positively impact through your life and career?
(4) Where will you find your small team of thoughtful, committed citizens that will change the world with you?
(5) How do you respond under pressure, especially when working in a Team with others? How can you improve?
(6) What about your Showcase skills?

Reflecting on the How to Change the World approach…

(7) [Why] Do you feel that defining the problem you are trying to solve is as important as the emphasis we place on it?
8. [Why] Do you feel that starting from personal/team passions is at least as important as tackling a problem that is important to the community and people living through the problem everyday?

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Our How to Change the World perspective on this:

We believe that it is the overlap of (1) what you are passionate about, and (2) what ‘the world’ (i.e. real people and communities) needs and wants, that you will find the greatest opportunities to make meaningful change in the world.

Finding that overlap takes time, takes iteration and experimentation... but when do, you can and will make a real difference in the world. We hope your Bootcamp experience provided an opportunity to get started!

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