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Kolb's Learning Cycle

CONCRETE EXPERIENCE

Concerned with something that has happened to you

or that you have done. Concerned with adopting your

new ideas into practice.

ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION

OBSERVATION

Concerned with trying out the new

ideas as a result of the learning from

earlier experience and reflection.

REFLECTIVE

Concerned with reviewing the event

or experience in your mind and exploring

what you did and how you, and others,

felt about it.

ABSTRACT CONCEPTUALISATION

Concerned with developing an understanding of what

happened by seeking more information and forming

new ideas about ways of doing things in the future