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We invite you to join us as we dive into the future of learning! We will visit three dynamic and highly professional educational institutions in three European countries that present different cultural contexts. These institutions take a hands-on approach to educating the leaders of tomorrow. Look forward to a unique, engaging and highly challenging learning experience.
The journey will be an immersive experience where you will be able to see first-hand the methodologies and theories in practice among the leaders within value-driven education. Moreover, you will have the chance to experience it with the help of former students, who are experts in educational theory and process facilitation.
Through targeted facilitation your beliefs and assumptions will be challenged and you will develop a more comprehensive understanding of education. In a dynamic exchange with the participants of the trip we will unfold the complex reality of the educational sector, hear about the opportunities and pitfalls provided by our current reality and engage in a dialogue about how to approach them in different cultural contexts around the globe.
During the visits you will get an exclusive chance to meet the students and staff, participate in projects, classroom activities and even parties to get a feel of the daily life in and around the schools. You will get an introduction to the secrets behind the pedagogical approach and learning environments that each school takes pride in.
This is a unique opportunity to join and build a relationship with leading professionals from around the world in learning about some of the methods at the forefront of educational thinking and understand how to cultivate a culture within an institution that allows for these dynamic methods to unfold.
COST
Individuals: € 4,400
Company: € 5,280
To be confirmed
- Make your pre-reservation: vendas@aoka.com.br or call +55 11 2386 1320;
- 20% of the total value corresponds to the direct contribution made to the visited Institutions;
- Prices are valid for a group of at least 14 people;
- Prices are valid for September 2012 only. Subject to availability;
- Important: prices do not include flights to and from Europe.
ONLY DATES
September 24 to October 6, 2012.
DAY 1 (Mon, 24/sep): Bilbao, Spain
Arrival in Bilbao, reception at the hotel at 17h00. Welcome dinner, introduction to the program of the days ahead and an opportunity for the participants to meet each other. Overnight stay in Bilbao. (D)
DAY 2 (Tue, 25/sep): Bilbao - Mondragón, Spain
Breakfast and free morning in Bilbao. Transfer to Mondragón. Hotel check-in. Introduction to Team Academy. (B)
DAY 3-4 (Wed-Thu, 26-27/sep) Team Academy, Mondragón, Spain
Immersion into the world of Team Academy: introduction and history of the school, joining classes with students, campus visit, project-work together with students. Here we’ll understand how this revolutionary school has reinvented the concept of Team Entrepreneurship. (B)
DAY 5 (Fri, 28/sep) Mondragón – Copenhagen, Denmark
Breakfast. Transfer to Bilbao airport and flight to Copenhagen. Hotel check-in. Welcome dinner. Overnight stay in Copenhagen. (B, D)
DAY 6 (Sat, 29/sep) Copenhagen, Denmark
Breakfast. Free day in Copenhagen. Option to visit Kaospilot entrepreneurs. (B)
DAY 7 (Sun, 30/sep) Copenhagen – Aarhus, Denmark
Breakfast. Free morning in Copenhagen. In the afternoon we’ll travel to Aarhus, the home of Kaospilot. Hotel check-in. Introduction to the program at Kaospilot. (B, D)
DAY 8-9 (Mon-Tue, 1-2/oct) Kaospilot, Aarhus, Denmark
For two days we will sail into chaos and discover our own tools for navigating. Creative Leadership workshop, history and DNA of the Kaospilot, project work with first, second or third year students. Time for walks and reflection by the forest. (B)
DAY 10 (Wed, 3/oct) Aarhus – Totnes, UK
Breakfast. Transfer to Aarhus airport. Flight to London. Transfer to Totnes and Schumacher College’s campus. introduction to the program at the SC. Accommodation and welcome dinner at Schumacher. (B, D)
Day 11-12 (Thu-Fri, 4-5/oct) Schumacher College, Totnes, UK
In these last days we will understand more about the role of holistic sciences and complexity and how influential Schumacher College has been in the past decades. We will have the opportunity to experience life on campus, take a field trip to retreat into nature before closing down the entire trip with reflections over new insights and learning. (B, L, D)
Day 13 (Sat, 6/oct) Totnes – London, UK
We end the trip with a closing ceremony and head back to London to say the final goodbyes and head home. (B)
(B) = Breakfast; (L) = Lunch; (TL) = Trail Lunch; (D) = Dinner
"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
The KaosPilots (Aarhus, Denmark)
International school of entrepreneurship and social innovation, founded in 1991. The 3-year course aims to qualify the student vocationally as well as personally to thrive interdependently by developing their knowledge, skills and attitudes as pro-active learners, value-based leaders and sustainable entrepreneurs, for the benefit of themselves and society as a whole. Highly recognized all across Scandinavia, its founder Uffe Elbeak is currently the Minister of Culture of Denmark. The KaosPilots have been highlighted among the top 10 design education institutions in the world and most recently they were mentioned in the top ten education startups in Fast Company Magazine in November 2011.
Website: http://www.kaospilot.dk/
Team Academy (Mondragón, The Basque Country)
Team Academy was originally founded in 1993 at JAMK (Jyväskylä) University of Applied Sciences and combines the worlds of business and education. All teams operate as independent cooperative companies. Students have to do real-life projects, which they have to find or create themselves, to cover all the expenses of the company. Projects function both as learning environments (for studies and developing the individual’s competencies) and as ways of doing business (for team companies). Learning is viewed as an ongoing process and is not divided into modules or subjects like marketing or leadership. Today Team Academy has expanded its activities to many other countries, including Mondragón. This branch of Team Academy provides a unique opportunity into the challenges faced when setting up an established educational model in a new cultural setting.
Website (Jyväskylä, Finland): http://www.tiimiakatemia.fi/en/
Website (Mondragón, Spain): http://mondragonteamacademy.com/about/
Schumacher College (Totnes, UK)
People from all over the world, of all ages and backgrounds, have been informed, inspired and encouraged to act, by 20 years of transformative courses for sustainable living. Schumacher College brings together the leading thinkers, activists and practitioners internationally, to deliver a unique brand of small group learning experiences.
With a focus on interactive, experiential and participatory learning, Schumacher College offers the practical skills and strategic thinking required to face the ecological, economic and social challenges of the 21st Century. All courses are deeply grounded in an ecological and holistic worldview which, once experienced, will completely transform the way students live and work in the world. Coming to Schumacher College is a rich and diverse experience which allows its students to mix with like-minded people, teachers and activists who are all striving for positive change in the world.
Website: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/about/schumacher
“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.“ – Eric Hoffer
This Learning Journeys was designed with four major components
Learning is a cyclical process and we facilitate our learning journeys so they unfold in a dynamic interplay with these four major activities.
1. Immersion: each visit provides a direct experience of the culture inside each school visited; through real life projects, stories, conversations and hands-on activities. We take time to explore some of the major issues these schools have dealt with from ideation through conception onto maturity, providing context and insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of the schools. We aim to highlight the core challenges that these schools have confronted in opposing and transcending the status quo.
2. Observation: you will be guided to observe contrasts between conventional assumptions and practices in use at each school while comparing them to the assumptions that arise within your own worldview.
3. Action: throughout the journey you will partake in a series of experiments, testing the learning as we move forward to expand our understanding and embody it in our own practice.
4. Reflection: we will provide settings that stimulate personal reflection by ensuring that you have time to process challenging experiences, to recognize your thought patterns and reactions and to decipher what they mean.
It important to highlight that these educations are not anomalies. Along the way we will bring examples from elsewhere, naming other programs and initiatives that rely on similar beliefs and practices to achieve remarkable outcomes. In doing this we aim to ensure that we keep a constant focus on the context-dependent aspects of learning.
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.” - Chinese Proverb
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To request this trip brochure with exact costs and more information about this trip, please contact us at vendas@aoka.com.br or by phone +55 11 3562-1320
Meeting Point
Transportation & Logistics
Local flights between individual countries in Europe are included. All local transportation will be arranged with minivans, private busses or trains. Initial transportation from your home to Bilbao as well as the final transportation from London back to your home is not included.
Costs
To be confirmed
- Make your pre-reservation: vendas@aoka.com.br or call +55 11 2386 1320;
- 20% of the total value corresponds to the direct contribution made to the visited Institutions;
- Prices are valid for a group of at least 14 people;
- Prices are valid for September 2012 only. Subject to availability;
- Important: prices do not include flights to and from Europe.
Price Includes
- Accommodation for 13 nights in shared rooms (1 night in Bilbao, 3 nights in Mondragón, 2 nights in Copenhagen, 3 nights in Aarhus, 3 nights at Schumacher College);
- Meals as described in the itinerary;
- All tours and activities described in the itinerary;
- Aoka specialists and facilitators;
- All local transportation including including internal flight at Europe and transfers on minivans or private busses;
- Travel Insurance;
- Full compensation of CO2 during the trip.
Mark Hessellund Beanland
Danish/American KaosPilot. He runs a one-man consulting firm specializing in leadership development and social entrepreneurship. He works with what he believes to be the two of the most important themes of our time; reconnecting man to the natural world and developing individuals and groups towards cultural maturity. Ever since he was a young boy, he has lived, traveled and worked all over the world. Mark is currently heading an EU funded research project into alternatives teaching methodologies.
Henrique Versteeg-Vedana
Brazilian Kaospilot and social entrepreneur. He has worked within sustainability reporting, alternative and democratic education, NGO and volunteer engagement, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is currently a partner in the company CoCriar, based in São Paulo, Brazil. CoCriar works with organizational innovation and sustainability through participatory processes that create spaces for learning and collective intelligence. Henrique also worked for many years in AIESEC, becoming president of the organization in Brazil.
Ricardo Gravina
Ricardo has given dozens of lectures on important events in Brazil, Europe and the US, talking about Social Business, Impact Entrepreneurship and the challenges of including sustainability in the core business of companies worldwide. He's a true chameleon, blending in among company's CEOs, generation "Y" tribes and indigenous communities with the same ease. With a wide experience with the reality of the poor in Brazil, Gravina understands the challenges and possibilities of impact entrepreneurship. He is Aoka's co-founder and facilitator of various Aoka Learning Journeys, such as "TEDx Amazon Expedition", "Ribeira Valley Expedition" and "Ubatuba & Paraty Co-creating Experience". He's also a dedicated student of human relations, biopsychology and tantra.
Nanna W. Frank
Danish Kaospilot, graphic facilitator and art of hosting practitioner. Nanna works as a professional graphic facilitator as well as a consultant within the Danish primary education system. She works with pedagogical approaches for primary school teachers and bringing innovation into the Danish curricula. At present she is designing an offering for the Danish Minister of Education on her new initiative “The New Nordic Classroom” which is an initiative to reform primary education across the Nordic countries.
Anima Educação
Anima Educação is a network of private universities in Brazil, with about 41,000 students in different cities across the country. Their vision is "To transform the country through Education, being a reference in innovative practices for management and learning, respecting diversity, valuing people and committing to sustainable development."
One of its units, the Centro Universitario UNA in Belo Horizonte / Minas Gerais is ranked as one of the 100 best companies to work for in Brazil (Epoca Magazine / Great Place to Work 2011) and was also winner of the 2010 Hugo Werneck Award as the best academic example of sustainability and love for nature of Minas Gerais State. www.una.br / www.unibh.br / www.unimonte.br
Nodal
Nodal, a consulting firm created to address the convergence between innovation and strategy. www.nodalconsultoria.com.br
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