Hi, again Derek, excellent overview of experiential learning. The abstract conceptualization component is so crucial to overlaying one experience into another. It seems daunting to have a “step” of experiential learning be the need to abstractly relate it to larger concepts and fundamental understandings of the world around us, but the good news is that I think primarily our subconscious is what does this job. This is to say, we don’t have to take what we’ve learned in experience and manually try to think of all our other experiences it relates to; instead, our brain is actively trying to draw those connections itself to make sense of the world.

On the side of the learner, the active experimentation step is seemingly the part that takes the most work. The learner has to put themselves into a learning situation that allows them to creatively apply previous experiences that they’ve learnt from and interrelate them into their ‘active experiment’. Thank you!