It was an exercise in intensive non-formal education, through which participants would acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes they could apply in their own practice back home.
The course was put together by a group of European-level trainers in non-formal learning. What made it slightly different from the many such courses run each year all over Europe was that I was there to observe everything that went on. This injected an action research element into the course, designed to bring its process and practice to the surface and make it available to a wider audience, not least the bureaucrats and funders who still reserve judgment on the value of such education. With trainer Mark Taylor, I wrote a comprehensive account of the course.
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