Open Connections

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