Open Connections

The OC Process

At Open Connections we engage in a wide variety of techniques to ensure that young people have the freedom to learn and create.

• Avoidance of questions with hidden agendas
• Emphasis on Real Work versus make-work
• Reliance on experiential, hands-on learning
• Development of Process Consciousness (how a process impacts on the quality of content/output, for better or for worse)
• Treatment of all people as colleagues (minus the struggles of hierarchies)
• Celebration of each other’s growth
• Offer of developmentally appropriate opportunities for young people to contribute to the growth of Open Connections
• Encouragement of the the use of imagination and wishfulness as components of Flexible Thinking
• Emphasis on collaboration and synergy (vs. competition and negativity)
• Treatment of adversity as opportunity
• Finding the resources to achieve goals