Why encourage risk-taking in activities but discourage it in reviews? Why do we focus on basic needs in reviews (care, friendship, belonging) and higher needs in activities (new experience, responsibility, risk)? There seems little reason to lower our expectations when it comes to the review. If playing safe when facilitating reviews, expectations are low, energy is low and involvement is low. So let’s make reviewing more adventurous and learning transfer more likely.

Using Colin Mortlock’s ‘frontier adventure’ as a starting point, we will create a ‘scale of adventure’ in reviewing and place familiar reviewing methods on this scale. We will then explore what the experience of 'frontier reviewing' is like, and what 'misadventures' in reviewing we might wish to avoid. We will then try out reviewing techniques that can help to make reviewing a 'frontier' experience. The concept of 'frontier adventure' applied to reviewing can help us find the threshold at which it is most productive to work with a particular group or individual.

This is a 1.5 or 2 hour workshop limited to 16 people (because there's some paired work).