The Processing Pinnacle: An Educator’s Guide to Better Processing

STEVEN SIMPSON  DAN MILLER   BUZZ BOCHER

ISBN: 978-1-885473-63-9 SIZE: 6 x 9 PAGE COUNT: 216

“Processing is an intuitive practice, and the processing pinnacle puts logic and structure to something that is not particularly logical.”

Experiential education focuses mainly on the idea that there are two components to experience: action and reflection.  The Processing Pinnacle offers a theoretical approach to more effective processing, the reflective component of experience.  Offering different points of view from the growing world of experiential education, the authors consider the difficulties of processing and suggest techniques to remove these “roadblocks.”

Utilizing the metaphor of the mountain, the authors demonstrate how and when certain facilitator methods may elicit immediate response and make a lasting impression on the individual, encouraging reflection as a personal response to life experience.  Readers are invited to take a quiz designed to help experiential educators clarify and interpret their processing tendencies.  Easy to implement and conversational in tone, The Processing Pinnacle contains valuable guidance for anyone who teaches experientially.

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Table of Contents

Preface  Section One Introduction   Chapter 1 A Conversation on Reflection  Chapter 2 What Is Processing?  Chapter 3 Ten Reasons Why Processing Is Difficult  Section Two A Processing Quiz  Chapter 4 A Processing Quiz  Chapter 5 The Processing Matrix and Interpretation of the Quiz  Section Three The Processing Pinnacle  Chapter 6 The Processing Pinnacle  Chapter 7 The Hammer  Chapter 8 The Standard: Developing Better Questions and Answers  Chapter 9 Participant-Directed Processing  Chapter 10 Reaching the Pinnacle  Chapter 11 Conclusion  Appendix A A Few Processing Activities  Appendix B A Facilitator’s Field Guide