Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing

Chapter 2

Expanding the psyche¹ through the learning process

 

 

 

What does transformative learning look like, then, in the experience of students of the CWPD programme? The most striking feature of the material from Group 1 is the experience of opening-up to a less cognitively-driven, more spontaneous, and bodily-felt approach to learning or writing. One respondent notes a shift away from ‘a narrow attitude towards learning … as an intellectual and academic exercise’ towards a more ‘fragile process of exploring and finding one's self/voice in writing … a subtle, quiet process at times [whose] rewards are not be found in grades or marks’. This shift away from ‘narrow’ thinking is highlighted by another respondent: ‘I now have a much broader ...