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International MOZAIK is known for its hands-on, experiential teaching techniques that combine the best of science with the best of coaching. Mozaik's program creates an experience-based learning process that has been developed out of knowledge of Systemic theory, Cognitive Psychology, Constructivism, and Emotional Intelligence as well as masterful coaching tools, including intuition. Our learning philosophy, related to SOL (Society of Organizational Learning) findings, which is embodied in our program, holds that.

Comprehensive learning comes from an alignment of head, heart, and body. True understanding is the result of experiential learning in which we are intellectually connected, emotionally engaged, and physically involved. Learning to change is a place in which the joy and chaos of exploration and inquiry are always present.

As the brain is a pattern-seeking organ, every learner's brain is a uniquely organized system which is highly self-generating. The search for meaning is innate and occurs through the continuing search by the brain for patterns and relevance to the learner.

Emotions are a fundamental part of learning because the brain "downshifts" whenever there is a perceived threat or emotional upset, diminishing its capacity for engaging in higher-level thinking.

According to Constructivism, learning is a process of creating personal meaning from new information by tying it to prior knowledge and experience. Learning is not linear; rather, it is recursive, iterative, and tied to particular situations. We transfer information from one context to another only if we construct bridges to higher levels of learning.

Above all, learning is strategic. It is goal oriented and involves the learner's assimilation of strategies associated with " Meta-cognition " and knowing when to use knowledge, how to adapt it, and how to manage one's own learning process.

Our learning approach uses participants' professional backgrounds in an interactive dynamic which alternates knowledge transfer and business experimentation. Furthermore, participants have the opportunity to try out their ability to coach, integrating the systemic approach and strategic coaching tools such as metaphors, analogies, and paradoxes.

Professional situations brought in by the participants are explored during mentoring session where everyone can experience and practice. Our mentoring approach is primarily "an experiment, producing questions and signification. Its point is the search for consistency between our most intimate experiences, our way to think and act in this world, and ourselves who emerged from this world" (inspired by Prigogine).

Between sessions, participants work, in peer groups, on task they have been assigned for the next session, leveraging field experience. In addition, the program provides high quality materials that support and help participants engage in their own learning at a deep level.