Stage | Mezirow’s Framework Stage | Kolb’s Experiential Learning Pathway Phase | Learning Phase |
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1 | Disorienting Dilemma | Concrete, Reflective | Phase 1: Reflective |
2 | Self-Examination (Often with feeling of guilt or shame) | ||
3 | Critical Assessment of epistemic, sociocultural or psychic assumptions | Abstract, Reflective | |
4 | Recognition of connection between one’s discontent and the process of transformation | ||
5 | Explaining option for new behavior | ||
6 | Planning a course of action | Abstract, Active | Phase 2: Active |
7 | Knowledge to implement plans | ||
8 | Experimenting with new roles | Concrete, Active | |
9 | Building of confidence with new roles | ||
10 | Reintegration into one’s life on the basis of conditions dictated by ones new life |