And I think making the unconscious conscious is an early start to making the expertise unconscious (e.g. making it explicit and visible as part of the process of becoming self-monitoring).

I agree with individual events being part of the learning process, but I think they’re part of an ongoing process, and trying to achieve a meaningful outcome via a one day event. So yes, a series of learning events aggregate to a learning experience, but an extended learning experience is required to achieve retention and transfer, not just an event.

Fair enough? Thanks for the feedback (and yes, much prefer fun rather than nodding heads ;).

“Informal learning is pretty much all conscious…” Was that supposed to be “unconscious”?

“…formal learning is about practicing to make the conscious become unconscious.” I’d agree with that for much of high school and good training courses. For the classic college seminar, though, the focus is often in the opposite direction, making the unconscious conscious.

“the ‘event’ model of learning doesn’t work” Indeed not, if that means one introductory project to learning some new skill. But let’s not overlook failure-driven learning. Once burned, twice learned.