EVERY DAY’S A SCHOOL DAY

‘Every day’s a school day’ is a favourite axiom of Siân’s. 

A Friday or so back I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to run a painting and drawing workshop in central London for nine talented young people. 

Class at work 

I was working alongside Lorena Zurbano, she is a driving force behind Metaforlearning. https://www.metaforlearning.org  This is community that organises and encourages learning outside the school room for young people of all ages, they meet regularly as a community and consider young people equal to adults. 

Equal to adults 

I arrived at my workshop with materials, a desire to inspire and bits and pieces for a still life set up we could all draw and/or paint. It had been a while. I ran a series of online art workshops during lockdown. Prior to that  workshops in Beaconsfield Library. All activities were hugely rewarding.

 

Working alongside Lorena we had a great session lot of exciting work created by everyone! There is a of pictures here https://www.metaforlearning.org/gallery-1

 

The magic part came when everyone in the class started really engaging in what they were doing, which was not necessarily painting the still life that I had set up. Some were looking outside the windows or working on their own personal ideas with pen paper inks and watercolours. Marvellous. 

 

LEARNING: 

When delegates 'take over' the session/workshop, the trainer/ facilitator/teacher can step back confident that learning/discovering among those that matter is really taking place.