Experience activation

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The experience activation is a method of psychotherapy . In doing so, situations are created that enable people to develop solutions or skills or to learn new content. Its ability to survive in everyday situations should be strengthened.

The experience is an event in a person's life that remains in his memory for a long time because it differs greatly from the everyday life of the person experiencing it, while an event affects many people.

Experience-activating work and how it works

According to the purpose, the experience activation is divided into different orders:

  • Bringing people into activity (first-order experience activation)
  • cooperative adventure games - topic is cooperation (experience activation 2nd order)
  • Processing of concerns - subject lies with the protagonist (activation of experiences, 3rd order).

Experience-activating work in coaching or training supports the brain in the learning process and increases the likelihood that what has been learned will be implemented in everyday life.

In the human brain, several areas are involved in the actual learning process. The recording and processing of facts take place in the cortex , neocortex and hippocampus .

The main part of the learning process occurs during sleep. During this phase of the process amygdala (amygdala) as emotional memory the emotional meaning of a situation. Only then do new biochemical connections arise in the brain. The learning success is strongly influenced by how the learning situation is designed. When apparently ordinary information is associated with a particular experience, the brain automatically tries to carefully archive the thought.

The brain's language processing is therefore worst with abstract words (e.g. "contraction"), so it is difficult to remember them, the brain is better at doing this with picture words (e.g. "table"). The brain works even faster and more effectively with action and action words (e.g. “hammer”, “go”), but most effectively with pictorial words with emotional content (e.g. “kiss”). Experience-oriented and pictorial learning is therefore particularly effective and successful in the long term.

literature

  • Bommert, H. & Dahlhoff, HD: Experience activation in psychotherapy . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1975.
  • Gross-Hardt, Mechthild: Experience activation in conversation psychotherapy. A critical inventory . 1983, ISBN 3-89334-048-3 .
  • Schulz von Thun, Friedemann: Practical advice in groups. Experience-activating methods with 20 case studies . 6th edition. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-407-36444-X .