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Benefits of Visual Metaphors
Benefits of incorporating the Visual Metaphors products in your practice
Working with adults
- Promotes leadership and management of personal and social learning.
- Helps build desired knowledge, skills and behaviours for leaders, staff and mentors.
- Stimulates thought and builds ideas for individuals and groups.
- Encourages participants to discuss ideas, considering a variety of discourses.
- Assists participants to move away from recycling traditional practices and processes.
- Invites participants to discuss and question the routine habits, thoughts and actions that are the dominant modes of practice.
- Assists participants to actively investigate needs, values and beliefs of themselves and others.
- Teaches critical skills of understanding cultural and social diversity.
- Provides an opportunity for participants to reflect on specific practices, and ultimately work collaboratively to further refine these practices.
- Prepares and promotes effective decision making and strategic planning.
- Generates a sense of authenticity, trust and empathy amongst individual participants.
- Tool to gather information to identify participant/ department/ or company needs.
- Facilitates meta-cognitive processes (by linking existing knowledge through examples).
Working with children and young adolecents
- Promotes management of personal and social learning, discipline-based learning, and interdisciplinary learning.
- Provides opportunities to work collaboratively.
- Promotes life-skills for the future that encompass values education.
- Assists participants to actively investigate needs, values and beliefs of themselves and others.
- Helps build desired knowledge, skills and behaviours for leaders and mentors.
- Stimulates thought and build the ideas of individuals and groups.
- Encourages participants to apply interpersonal forms of communication to explore ideas, considering discourses.
- Teaches critical skills of understanding cultural and social diversity/contexts.
- Prepares and promotes effective decision making.
- Assists in deriving a sense of authenticity, trust and empathy amongst individual participants.
- Facilitates the development of reflection, evaluation and meta-cognitive skills (self awareness and application of knowledge).
- Supportive resource for teaching visual and critical literacy of written and non-written texts.
- A resource for teaching creative thinking and investigating social justice.
Supportive resource for writing and art activities from Prep- Secondary School.
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Learn more about Visual Metaphors Products:
• The Package
• The Kit
• The Book
• The DVD
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