New understanding is best experienced and understood by immersion. By bringing learning to life, our immersion programs simulate how people actually learn: Through life experience. Example programs developed by The Holos Group include:

• simulating a micro-society to better understand societal or institutional dynamics
• contributing to a community garden project to better understand about the science of living systems, and
• participating in a micro-credit banking initiative accessed by developing countries to better understand business ecologies.

Although the map is not the territory, our programs bring the territory alive and provide individuals and groups with access to the ‘sign-posts’ of their journey. These ‘sign-posts’ are then utilised to create a deeper understanding of the many and varied paths along the journey.

To ensure the maximum learning benefit from our programs, all learning experiences designed by The Holos Group utilise a five-step learning process involving:

1. experience - the 'event' that provides the catalyst for insight;
2. deconstruction - group review of the experience resulting in a shared 'knowing' of the events;
3. reflection - individual self-analysis based upon the experience and resulting group debrief;
4. re-calibration - the individual and collective re-alignment of beliefs, attitudes, behaviours and priorities based upon the experience of the 'event'; and
5. assimilation - the integration of the 'inner' and 'outer' worlds of the individual and the group into the broader social and/or institutional system.

The very experience of The Holos Group's experiential learning 'events' and simulation engages individuals in a multi-level process that evokes insight, growth and the building of consciousness.