Our focus at the Rewilding Immersion Program is fluency. Too many schools offer “flash in the pan” educational models where you learn to do a thing once and then are meant to practice it on your own after the school is over. You did it once, you can replicate it later by yourself, right? Wrong. People are not setup to become fluent in this model of education. You might as well not waste your money on programs like that, when you could just read a book on the subject instead, or youtube a video of others doing the skill you want to learn. In order to build fluency in every skill we teach, our programs are designed using the Fluency Game.
I know many amazing flint-knappers who can make beautiful works of art from stone in just a few minutes. But try to have them teach how they did it and they will likely leave everyone feeling confused and defeated. Not all masters are great teachers. The Fluency Game trains people to “hunt” knowledge out of masters without having to rely on the masters ability to teach. Not only that, but as a fluency hunter “hunts” out this knowledge, they simultaneously create a curriculum for teaching the skill faster than they were able to learn it themselves.
Now you’re probably asking yourselves… “What is this Fluency Game???” The Fluency Game is a mentoring language that allows people to collect teaching and learning techniques in such a way that it greatly speeds up the acquisition of any skill or bit of knowledge while simultaneously building a community of learning and teaching. Currently, it’s being used to revitalize endangered indigenous languages by giving them tools to rapidly acquire their language. To see it in action check out www.whereareyourkeys.org.
Willem Larsen, one of the creators of the Fluency Game is collaborating with me in the creation of the Rewilding Immersion Program curriculum based on that model and will be a main instructor of the program. Students of the Rewilding Immersion Program will live in a continuous Fluency Game for the entire year. By the time you leave, not only will you be fluent in all of the things that we teach, but you will be a fluency hunter, having the ability to take on any new skill you wish to learn. This is the main goal of our program: to create Fluency Hunters.
Becoming “Fluency Hunters”
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Posted: October 20, 2010 by Peter Bauer
Our focus at the Rewilding Immersion Program is fluency. Too many schools offer “flash in the pan” educational models where you learn to do a thing once and then are meant to practice it on your own after the school is over. You did it once, you can replicate it later by yourself, right? Wrong. People are not setup to become fluent in this model of education. You might as well not waste your money on programs like that, when you could just read a book on the subject instead, or youtube a video of others doing the skill you want to learn. In order to build fluency in every skill we teach, our programs are designed using the Fluency Game.
I know many amazing flint-knappers who can make beautiful works of art from stone in just a few minutes. But try to have them teach how they did it and they will likely leave everyone feeling confused and defeated. Not all masters are great teachers. The Fluency Game trains people to “hunt” knowledge out of masters without having to rely on the masters ability to teach. Not only that, but as a fluency hunter “hunts” out this knowledge, they simultaneously create a curriculum for teaching the skill faster than they were able to learn it themselves.
Now you’re probably asking yourselves… “What is this Fluency Game???” The Fluency Game is a mentoring language that allows people to collect teaching and learning techniques in such a way that it greatly speeds up the acquisition of any skill or bit of knowledge while simultaneously building a community of learning and teaching. Currently, it’s being used to revitalize endangered indigenous languages by giving them tools to rapidly acquire their language. To see it in action check out www.whereareyourkeys.org.
Willem Larsen, one of the creators of the Fluency Game is collaborating with me in the creation of the Rewilding Immersion Program curriculum based on that model and will be a main instructor of the program. Students of the Rewilding Immersion Program will live in a continuous Fluency Game for the entire year. By the time you leave, not only will you be fluent in all of the things that we teach, but you will be a fluency hunter, having the ability to take on any new skill you wish to learn. This is the main goal of our program: to create Fluency Hunters.
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