Competendo’s main focus is to shape and strengthen key competencies of individuals and to support an applied learning outcome in their life as active citizens and changemakers. We promote a learned outcome wider than knowledge, including the practical skills of learners and their attitudes. We hope that these competencies will help people be better prepared to thrive in complex social situations.
Key Competences and Learning
Competence-centred learning processes cover a broad range of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that one needs for successful problem-solving techniques in modern society. They help the individual to develop their key competencies and have an active attitude towards the idea of life-long learning.
Experiential learning is a holistic process of individual development that brings relevance to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the participants. It combines the learning opportunities of everyday life and scholastic institutions with all other possible activities that are available in society.
Empowerment
Empowerment is the learning and developmental process of raising social, spiritual, economic, and political capacities of individuals or communities. We promote it as a tool to help each individual to act self-responsibly and with a sense of purpose. We hope to equip individuals with skills, knowledge, and competencies that will promote empathy and a desire to share their influence and power as self-responsible individuals.
Group-related and Interpersonal Aspects
Following the idea of competence-based learning and empowerment, we need to reflect and improve upon the learning conditions in our classrooms, seminars, and workplaces. Since social life is shaped through group and intergroup collaboration, we need to transform our social groups into collectives which encourage peer-involvement-style learning in order to create a new understanding of the role of teachers or trainers as
facilitators.
Personal cooperation is a valuable management tool and can be a learning opportunity for enhancing social skills. The more diverse groups are, the more they need to reflect and to apply cooperative ways of decision-making. These necessary reflections include a more detailed understanding of group processes and team roles.
Communication skills are extremely important in order for there to be an efficient common understanding and appreciation amongst partners in any group. This section introduces models that illustrate conditions for successful communication and offers methods for gaining communicative competency.
We believe that developing diversity consciousness and managing diversity in groups will increase the quality of participation and include people from different social backgrounds in the collective process. This includes aspects that work against structural discrimination and marginalization, as well as to foster those who have not yet developed the capacity to get involved.
Good conflict resolution management influences the quality of collaboration and cooperation in the group in a positive way. With better conflict management we can improve the efficiency of communication and equip our participants with new skills.
Definitions & Terminology
Introduction: On this page we collect links to external glossaries and sources.
