A supporter learns best when he can support others in learning. This “forces” him to initially have a rough understanding by placing him in existing experiences or assigning him to categories. His imagination then allows him to empathize and possibly identify with the contents or the people concerned. Helpful are stories or metaphors (imagination, intuition) as well as self-written paper documentation and comprehensible models (haptics) which can be shown to the fellow learners.

Each basic need has a particular way of learning.

The need for security means: When learning, I need peace and quiet. I want to be able to concentrate and work at my own pace. I can also manage with e-learning, but I take notes along the way because that consolidates the knowledge. It’s also good that you can repeat chapters in our program. Compared to others, I need more time to learn. I want to work intensively on it. Writing everything down neatly, drawing pictures to go with it, making models and making sure everything is in good order doesn’t happen so quickly. But in the end, I have something that I can certainly refer back to again and again.

For learning, the empathy need means: I like to make myself comfortable. I like to incorporate the content to be learned into my experienced or invented stories. Sometimes I use quiet, meditative music to relax. Suggestopedia uses similar ways, I think. In any case, my learning thus becomes an inner event in which all feelings participate. I leave it to my unconscious, that is, to the personality parts or dream instances, to internalize new knowledge. I enter a situation inwardly, experience what happens or could happen and intuitively find the answers. I learn most easily through stories that I can make come alive within me.