Embodying, emotioning, expressing learning

This paper challenges the assumption that learning is a process of conscious mastery. In its place if offers the notion that learning is something we live within. Implicit in this are questions about how learning happens and how experience is conceived as learning. Accordingly, the paper will offer a series of provocations to 'find the learning in the experience'. In doing so it will test the senses alongside the intellect and the resonance of the experience alongside its cultural definition. To facilitate this, the paper will reflect upon the 'body in learning' and the means whereby this is received and expressed. Central to the discussion will be the stimulus contained in emotional experience. Here, reflection upon the 'ecology' of embodied experience will be addressed. Influences upon this work range far and wide. They include Augusto Boal, Humberto Maturana, Constantin Stanislavski, Aaron Williamson and others. Because it is configured in terms of learning rather than healing, the orientation of the paper is towards a working understanding rather than resolution.