Category: Experiential Learning

The LEAP Journey applies experiential learning to cement understanding and encourages life-long learning that involves learning, unlearning and relearning at various stages of one’s life.

The curse of intelligence: How we limit ourselves by being human knowers instead of human beings

Chantal BreytenbachAuthenticity / Experiential Learning / Future Self / LEAP / LEAP Thinker / Meaning / Purpose / Real Self / Self-Cultivation / Self-Discovery / Self-InnovationLeave a comment

You might think that your life would be easier and infinitely more fulfilling if your IQ were higher. Don’t smarter people have it easier, because they always have the answers? And don’t they get the best career opportunities and make more money than anyone else? In our most recent blog post, Chantal explores some of the downsides of being highly intelligent or a high achiever to illustrate how the LEAP Journey might help those individuals who have become stuck, because they have too many options, or because they are afraid of failing or making a mistake. […]

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Why understanding human nature is important in a coaching /learning relationship

Chantal BreytenbachCoaching / Experiential Learning / LEAP Thinker / Self-CultivationLeave a comment

When you work with people, things can get a bit messy and complicated. People are unpredictable and no one person is exactly like another person. So, when you are designing learning experiences to help individuals grow and reach their most important goals in life, it’s important to be cognisant of the differences between people as well as the traits we all share as human beings – i.e. the things that make us uniquely human.

In this blog post, Chantal describes her experience whilst attending a coaching workshop on building confidence, and the lessons she was reminded of again on how best to facilitate participants’ learning whilst being mindful of differences in personality, culture and even in the way that people interpret and process information. […]

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What makes our LEAP unlike any other? Part 5: We develop LEAP Thinkers not Leap Takers

Hannelize JacobsExperiential Learning / Future Self / LEAP / LEAP Thinker / Mindset / Purpose / Self-Cultivation / Self-Discovery / Self-InnovationLeave a comment

Because people can quickly understand the power of leaping to a better future, transformational programs have latched on to the idea and quickly accelerated it to the top of the hype curve. This has created many problems for both experts and for the methodology itself. The hype machine has led many transformational programs to claim that simply taking leaps is the hammer to every nail.

In this article, Hannelize warns against this practice and explains what a program that will bring lasting results should look like. On The LEAP Journey, we travel beyond mindfulness and use tools to develop meaningful cognitive transformation. This requires that our clients become LEAP Thinkers and not mere ‘leap takers’. We believe that you can only leap meaningfully if you align your life and career with who you truly are. This requires deep self-work that changes the way you think and feel. LEAP Thinkers balance their conscious and intuitive thinking and follow a disciplined approach to decision-making. To guide our clients accordingly we use a LEAP Thinker Journey Map, which Hannelize also shares with you. […]

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What makes our LEAP unlike any other? Part 4: We brave the design layer between the imagined and the realised future self

Hannelize JacobsExperiential Learning / Future Self / LEAP / Self-InnovationLeave a comment

Design thinking, a methodology used for quite some time in organisations to solve complex problems, is not usually used for solving personal problems. At the LEAP Academy, however, we do just that! We help our clients use design thinking to redesign their lives in order to leap from the present self to the future self. Unlike the typical double diamond design process, we follow a triple diamond process. We also recognise the importance of design doing and the design layer between the imagined and realised future self, and address it explicitly. In this article, Hannelize explains our reasoning and shares our Triple Diamond Redesign Process for Self-Innovation with you. […]

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What makes our LEAP unlike any other? Part 3: We call for the “removal of blinkers”

Hannelize JacobsExperiential Learning / LEAP / Mindset / Self-Cultivation / Self-Discovery / Self-InnovationLeave a comment

Your perspective is the way you see the world. It comes from your personal point of view and is shaped by your life experiences, your values, your current state of mind, the assumptions you bring into a situation, and a whole lot of other things. Throughout our lives, we are exposed to perspectives and realities beyond our own. How to open up and learn from and integrate these perspectives, i.e. how to “remove your blinkers”, has become a distinguishing factor of The LEAP Journey. […]

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What makes our LEAP unlike any other? Part 2: We subscribe to the dance between art and science

Hannelize JacobsExperiential Learning / LEAP / Self-Discovery / Self-InnovationLeave a comment

My youngest daughter, a second year university student, recently went to her sorority’s annual house dance. A week before the event she still did not have a date. Out of sheer desperation, she finally asked someone who she recently met while camping with friends. Little did she know that this young man was not just a nice guy, but also an excellent social ‘ballroom’ dancer. The problem was that my daughter cannot dance and she wasn’t interested in learning to do so. However, the young man ended up teaching her how to dance and she later posted a picture on Instagram of her and the young man with the following quote from Samuel Beckett to demonstrate how she was taught to dance: “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order”… […]

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The secret behind greatness

Chantal BreytenbachExperiential Learning / Future Self / Mindset / Purpose / Self-Cultivation / Self-InnovationLeave a comment

Our modern-day society tends to overemphasise talent at the expense of other factors that lead to success and they perpetuate the myth that excellence or greatness is mystical. Consequently, some of us assume that we are not meant for greatness and that we will never excel. Here’s why reaching excellence or greatness is both easier and harder than just having talent. […]

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What makes our LEAP unlike any other? Part 1: We operate in the space beyond knowing and doing

Hannelize JacobsExperiential Learning / LEAPLeave a comment

At the LEAP Academy we facilitate self-directed learning through carefully designed learning experiences. The focus is on our clients and the process that the client as learner goes through. Such learning experiences forges the mental link between knowledge (knowing) and the way it is applied to situations (doing). In addition, this learning is internalised through affective learning (being). However, we don’t stop there. We also build our clients’ capacity for meta-cognition (becoming). […]

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