Progress Through Resistance: Lessons from Ethiopia
by Valerie Uccellani ~ GLP Partner & Certified Dialogue Education Teacher, Baltimore MD ~ USA
When I hear talk about resistance I get all riled up. For those who know me, you might notice I can get riled up about a lot of things. But on the heels of a three week trip to Ethiopia, I’m feeling particularly riled up about the idea of resistance.
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Resistance: Signs and Reasons
by Chevonne Vermaak ~ Australia
After completing two Dialogue Education courses, I returned home with great expectations of a new way of training. I started planning some of the learning designs I would be writing, and envisioned myself standing (no, of course,
sitting) in front of my learners, listening to their discussion.
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Inclusion and Resistance
by Darlene Goetzman ~ GLP Partner & Certified Dialogue Education Teacher, Allegany NY ~ USA
On the first morning of a Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach course, several years ago, one woman, Judy* proclaimed, “I want you to know my supervisor made me come, and I do not want to be here.”
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Managing Resistance: Thoughts on Resistance and Dialogue Education
by Matt Myers ~
GLP Certified Dialogue Education Teacher
I’ve always thought that teaching using a Dialogue Education approach takes a certain amount of courage that develops over time. Courage can be necessary when a facilitator is designing for an audience that expects a simple Powerpoint presentation or lecture, and is likely to resist small group work or being an active rather then passive learner.
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BARRIER ANALYSIS: "What’s in the Way – Blocking My Learning?"
by Jane Vella ~ GLP Founder
What we perceive as recalcitrant, rebellious resistance is often a set of old, unconscious habits at play. "There’s a teacher up there; I am the student and I am going to give her trouble."
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Thoughts on Resistance: The Chinese Experience
by Jonathon Chan ~ Assistant Pastor, Logos Baptist Church, Toronto ON ~ Canada
My experiences with resistance as a facilitator of Dialogue Education have occurred in two different contexts–one in Hong Kong, primarily with teenagers, and another within a Chinese church here in Toronto. The commonality between the two contexts is Chinese ethnicity and culture.
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10 Ways to Minimize Resistance in a Learning Event
by Jeanette Romkema ~ GLP Partner &
Certified Dialogue Education Teacher, Toronto ON ~ Canada
Every trainer, teacher, professor, facilitator, keynote speaker and curriculum designer encounters resistance. Learners will sometimes resist content being taught, the way something is presented, the task being asked of them or any number of aspects of a course. Regardless of the type of resistance, one thing is important...
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Resistance: What you create when you defend what you are doing.
Like aikido, do not meet resistance with more resistance . . .
Embrace it—enough to move and direct it so it can be put into use or diffused.
If someone reveals resistance on a pre-course Learning Needs and Resource Assessment,
rather than trying to change their mind, I will acknowledge their thoughts and feelings
and leave it at that. Several little interventions that do not employ further resistance,
but instead engage the person, begin to melt it, drip by drip.
In a recent course we experienced just that...and the one most resistant force became
a highly engaged and key player in the learning for the group and the organization.
~Peter Perkins
GLP Partner & Certified Dialogue Education Teacher
