One of the interesting things which I have learnt during the course is the integrated approach emphasises the need of engaging the participants in educating them in their knowing,doing, feeling and being. I think that it is necessary to meet every facet of the individual as people learns things differently, like for people who are are empathetic, they'd tend to learn better if what is being taught excites their feelings given certain scenarios. Integrated learning also enable the individual to be more complete in the sense that he will not just know more, but do, not just do for the sake of doing but feel along what he does, and more than that, to enable the person to become more of that which is being taught. Like for example taking impressionable youths to meet other youths but those in special education. We make them aware that they considered more privileged. To do activities with them like simple games, then as an after action review, "how did you feel while you were playing with them?", ultimately with an intention of using this excision to make the youths become more sensible and not to take their privileges for granted.
Another lesson which I learnt is that education needs not take a formal lesson in a classroom setting but just going out with my youths and hearing them out or using a movie just watched as an object lesson. Same goes for ministry, every time and everything can be ministry to serve the Lord as I taught my Royal Ranger boy. But this is something I need to learn myself as I have the tendency to dichotomise my reality as spiritual and secular.
Lastly, learning as a community is important as it provides a platform of relational and mutual learning. It includes not just my learning in the process but the community's as well. As I have been taught in old testament foundations, no one in the Jewish community claims individual recognition but as a clan or tribe at the minimum.
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