Open Connections (OC)

openconnections.org

Campus view of Open Connections.

Freedom to Learn and Create

At Open Connections we engage in a wide variety of techniques to ensure that young people have the freedom to learn and create.

• Avoidance of questions with hidden agendas.
• Emphasis on Real Work versus make-work.
• Reliance on experiential, hands-on learning.
• Development of Process Consciousness (how a process impacts on the quality of content/output, for better or for worse).
• Treatment of all people as colleagues (minus the struggles of hierarchies).
• Celebration of each other's growth.
• Offer of developmentally appropriate opportunities for young people to contribute to the growth of Open Connections.
• Encouragement of the use of imagination and wishfulness as components of Flexible Thinking.
• Emphasis on collaboration and synergy (vs. competition and negativity).
• Treatment of adversity as opportunity.
• Finding the resources to achieve goals.

Notes:  The above descriptive information came from the organization's The OC Process page. Open Connections is located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.