Handbook for Strategic HR

CHAPTER 20

Mindfulness and Experiential Learning

Bauback Yeganeh and David Kolb

OVER THE LAST forty years researchers from many different theoretical perspectives have discovered that individuals develop consistent, routinized approaches to learning called learning styles (Sims & Sims 2006). Of the models that have emerged, Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) has largely influenced leadership and organization development. The experiential learning cycle is one of the most well-known illustrations in management education and has become the key theoretical model to express the nature of experiential learning (Cunningham, 1994).

Experiential learning theory also forms some of the basis for notions of the learning organization (Vince, 1998; Casey, ...