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