A learning environment that isn’t about listening, but about experiencing, reflecting, and thinking together? A group of professionals from several joint venture partners found themselves right in the middle of such an environment during the Social Performance Masterclass. Their four-day program focused entirely on learning through real-world practice, built around the actual work and challenges of the participants. Not a standard training, but a shared learning journey in which everyone contributed and walked away with valuable new insights.

The 70-20-10 Principle
In designing the masterclass, I applied the 70-20-10 learning model, which in short assumes that: 70% of learning comes from hands-on experience, 20% comes from interaction with colleagues, and 10% results from formal education, such as workshops and training. With that in mind, the masterclass was shaped around a combination of content, interaction, and introspection, always guided by the principle that knowledge only becomes meaningful when applied to one’s own reality.

We began with a Deep Democracy session, reflecting on what it truly means to collaborate within a joint venture — not as a theoretical concept, but as a lived human reality. What does such collaboration offer? Where does it create friction? And what does it demand from you — both as a professional and as a person?

Group Sessions to Contribute To and Draw From
Throughout the program, we explored themes such as community engagement, social investment, and ethical practice. During group discussions, participants openly shared their real-life dilemmas. Together we analyzed patterns, asked critical questions, and supported one another in seeing situations from different angles. When one participant felt stuck, another provided insight — and moments later the roles often reversed. Everyone brought something in, and everyone took something out. A meaningful balance.

What made these four days truly exceptional, in my view? There was space to slow down, reflect, analyze, and occasionally confront, always with respect for the human being behind the professional. Through listening, understanding, and connecting, something shifted. By the end of the masterclass, the group that stood in front of me was no longer the same group that had walked in on day one. They had become a network of people who understood one another — and each other’s work — in a deeper way. A group that grew together. In knowledge. In skills. In humanity.