On building transformative learning environments
Moon Jaguar Strategies’ pedagogical approach is based on four pillars:
360° learning: Ensuring a 360° degree collective learning process where all participants, no matter the intersectional reality they inhabit, are engaged in challenging and nurturing learning environments.
Applied learning: In keeping with best practices in the adult education field, learning is to take place through individual and collective hands on activities and reflective dialogue focusing on actual implementation of acquired skills.
Inclusive content: Whereas most leadership development programs largely draw from the Academy to identify valuable content, this approach to leadership development centers the leadership practices of Indigenous communities throughout the Global North and South as conversation, exploration, and research of leadership practices is minimal as an area of interest in the academic field of Leadership Studies. Pairing these leadership practices with the latest theoretical contributions in this field creates a powerful way to build shared values, culture, analysis and vision for change with all participants.
Hosting: Building learning environments where all learners are empowered to lead their own learning processes is critical in diverse adult learning programs. This requires a departure away from the idea and practice of facilitation and towards the discipline and practice of hosting. Although the philosophy and practice of hosting exists in particular within indigenous community systems, Peter Block writes about this practice in Community: The Structure of Belonging. Hosting moves away from the centralized use of power and knowledge sharing in learning environments and towards a fully relational story-based, permission-centered, manner in which to listen to stories and explore knowledge jointly. Learners are fully at choice in their learning and engagement processes. Hosts primarily operate through permission granted by participants mainly to extend invitations to engage and explore new content and to build relationships among all participants in a group experience.
Moon Jaguar Strategies engages vision and values aligned organizations and institutions in the design, implementation, evaluation and ongoing development of leadership development programs.
