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Growing Participation is a long journey. We know it can be overwhelming to get started and sometimes challenging to stay motivated during the journey. These guides provide a roadmap of activities for each phase of your growth. There are also some words about what to expect in each phase, the challenges you’ll face, and resources for your times with your nurturers.
Growing Participation is a long journey. We know it can be overwhelming to get started and sometimes challenging to stay motivated during the journey. These guides provide a roadmap of activities for each phase of your growth. There are also some words about what to expect in each phase, the challenges you’ll face, and resources for your times with your nurturers.
ABOUT PARTICIPATION THROUGH THE PHASES
ABOUT PARTICIPATION THROUGH THE PHASES
In each of the six phases there are two ways we participate in the host world:
- LIFESTYLE GROWING PARTICIPATION
or interaction with host people in everyday life
- SPECIAL-GROWTH PARTICIPATION
or activities with a nurturer which place our participation and growth front and center.
There is connection between the two kinds of participation. In fact, they are two versions of the same thing. In Phase 1 Connecting, we grow mainly through special-growth participation activities. In Phases 2 through 5, special growth participation continues on a large scale, but becomes less and less play-like, and more and more in the nature of serious relational interaction. Lifestyle participation during Phase 2-5 increases steadily and becomes increasingly natural. In Phase 6 Ever Growing, growing participators grow mainly through lifestyle participation.
ICE-berg principle
ICE-berg principle
Part of the philosophy of growing participation (GPA) is to place a high priority
on learning to understand speech. Listening to people with understanding is primarily a matter of giving, whereas talking to people and trying to be understood is more prone to be a matter of taking!
One of the biggest factors in understanding speech is understanding thousands and thousands of words. One way to learn a large number of words is to apply what GPA calls the Iceberg Principle. This principle has two parts:
1. Pay really good attention to new words when first encountering them (have a “strong encounter”).
2. Keep re-encountering them in new contexts (listen lots!)
— Greg & Angela Thompson, GPA Phase 1 Manual, pp. 13-14.
Part of the philosophy of growing participation (GPA) is to place a high priority
on learning to understand speech. Listening to people with understanding is primarily a matter of giving, whereas talking to people and trying to be understood is more prone to be a matter of taking!
One of the biggest factors in understanding speech is understanding thousands and thousands of words. One way to learn a large number of words is to apply what GPA calls the Iceberg Principle. This principle has two parts:
1. Pay really good attention to new words when first encountering them (have a “strong encounter”).
2. Keep re-encountering them in new contexts (listen lots!)
— Greg & Angela Thompson, GPA Phase 1 Manual, pp. 13-14.
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