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Learn Through an Experience, Not a Handbook.

Just getting people to understand new knowledge is no longer sufficient. You have to get them to adopt it and be willing to use it as well. What better way to do this than through experience? Learning through experience enables your people to react quickly and assuredly in critical situations. How then can you optimize experiential learning for a given individual? For an entire group?

Sophisticated Interactions. Compelling Experiences.
By using sophisticated simulation and scenario-planning exercises, we transform knowledge into experience. When that happens, your people will know how to respond appropriately and adapt quickly to situations when conditions change. And the conditions always change.
“If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you really wish to learn, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial.”
 
–Wilbur Wright,
on learning to ride a flying machine
  
With experience accelerating the uptake of new knowledge, 400% improvements in a day are not beyond the realm of possibility.
 
 
Power Your Training with Collaborative Learning
Blackvan can augment your existing training program or help you develop a new one altogether. Individuals can learn faster in a group than they could on their own, but only if learning and experience are leveraged properly.
 

Experience Matters
Imagine the Wright Brothers as they took their first flight at Kitty Hawk. Much preparation and learning about the theory of flight had taken place before that auspicious launch. They even flew gliders as kites and simpler unmanned models before they took their first flight. But it wasn’t until Orville was up in the air that they really learned to fly that plane. In that first 12-second, 120-foot flight, they learned much more about flying than they could have from just diagrams and theories.

By day’s end, they had increased the time and distance more than 400% to 59 seconds and 852 feet. Later, as the design for the plane evolved, so did the complexity of flying it. Yet flights became longer and longer as the accumulation of experience allowed the Wright Brothers to adapt their designs and to react quickly to changing flight conditions as they emerged. Without the ability to work from experience, without the time and space to actually use the tool, they would not have progressed beyond their original 12-second flight time.

Another factor that allowed the Wright Brothers to make steady progress was that there were no catastrophic crashes to recover from. This was because Kitty Hawk was no random location; it had been chosen carefully with specific parameters in mind, making it both a safe place to fail and an authentic place to succeed. Kitty Hawk thus was the perfect testing ground to learn how to fly.

Like Kitty Hawk, Blackvan training workshops are a rigorous yet safe place to put ideas and newly-acquired knowledge to the test. They are ideal learning environments for individuals and groups. Individuals learn from each other, creating a collective learning that far surpasses what they could do on their own. With experience accelerating the uptake of new knowledge, 400% improvements in a day are not beyond the realm of possibility.
 
   
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