First ‘research-in-practice-day’ was a great success

At May 9 the first ‘research-in-practice-day’ (‘onderzoekspraktijkdag’) took place. This was an initiative of the foundation of corporate education. Several experts and novices in the field of HRD gave a workshop around their research themes. Everyone of us invited an expert on his/here theme. There were workshops on workplace learning, storytelling, the autonomous professional and relational learning. My workshop was about appreciative reflection. I collaborated with Marieke van Schaik from the Amsterdam School of Professional Education. She joins a community that works on reflection on action and introduced us to the appreciative reflection. Take a look at their attractive website on reflection-tools (only in Dutch) and find many reflection tools and examples of how to use them.
The day was a great success thanks to the informal atmosphere and the opportunities it gave for connecting to colleagues in the field and finding out about interesting themes in HRD. The next ‘research-in-practice-day’ will be November 7, 2006.