With the 2022 TBLC Meeting just around the corner, we would like to bring attention to one of our featured workshops: Facilitating Transformative Learning through TBL. This session will be presented by William Ofstad and Cortny Williams. We hope you enjoy this session!

Title: Facilitating Transformative Learning through TBL
Presented by: William Ofstad – West Coast University
Cortny Williams – University of Western States
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern and Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Eastern

To cultivate a culture of deep learning, a facilitator must create a positive and challenging learning environment that fully engages learners and teams (Smith & Apple, 2007). Well-designed TBL modules offer opportunities for rich discussion and feedback. To fully realize the benefits of this process, learners and teams must feel safe to collaborate and reflect within and between teams despite discomfort and disorientation. How learners choose to embrace challenges is critical to their long-term growth and transformation. Transformative Learning (Mezirow, 1996) offers a systematic approach to embracing challenges and making meaning of one’s experience in order to guide future goals and actions. In this workshop, we will discuss the art of prompting engagement and improving accountability to self-and team goals through a structured discussion of regulating discontent that promotes the transformative learning process. Participants will engage in applications to: 1) Identify questions that prompt discovery, examination, and commitment of ideas toward promoting individual accountability. 2) Apply an inventory of the learning environment that builds trust and transparency for collaboration. 3) Develop a structure for teams of learners to discuss their discontent when facing challenges and plan solutions to common barriers.

We hope you enjoy this and our other exciting workshops.