Fifteen experiential learning activities you can run, with group sizes, time needed and the skill each one builds — plus the debrief questions that decide whether any of them work.
Programme fee: ₹88,000 inclusive of GST. Scholarships up to 30% available via the free CELSE scholarship test.
Two centres in Kerala: Kochi (Edappally) — +91 8007 980 000 · Kozhikode (Mavoor Road) — +91 7902 517 000.
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Structured tasks where participants do something first and analyse it afterwards, rather than being taught and then practising. The analysis is what makes them experiential rather than simply active.
Budget at least a third of the total time for the debrief. A 90-minute session works better as 55 minutes of activity and 35 of review than as 85 and 5.
Four to six is the usual sweet spot. Below four there are too few perspectives in the debrief; above six, people disengage and let others do the work.
They work better with adults, who bring experience to reflect against. The main adjustment is making the task genuinely job-relevant — adults disengage fast from activities that feel like games.
What did you expect to happen, what actually happened, and what will you do differently next time. Asked in that order, they convert an activity into learning in about ten minutes.
CELSE Labs — the Centre for Experiential Learning and Skill Enhancement — is an NSDC-certified, ISO 9001:2015 accredited skill training institute and an Approved Training Partner of Medhavi Skills University. We work with commerce graduates, career changers and working professionals across Kerala who want a job in accounting, finance, compliance or data, and who need practical capability rather than another certificate.
Our training is experiential rather than lecture-based. Instead of textbook exercises, trainees operate the books, bank account, invoices and internal correspondence of simulated companies — M & M Technologies, Toy Kingdom and PetalSoft — where transactions arrive incomplete, out of order and occasionally wrong, exactly as they do in a real office. Trainees learn judgement by making decisions and correcting them, which is the part of the work that cannot be transferred by explanation.
Teaching is one-to-one, so pace follows the learner rather than a cohort. New batches start every Wednesday at both centres. Scholarships of up to 30% are available through a free online scholarship test, and our placement record includes 36+ named alumni at HDFC, ICICI, Bajaj Finserv, Kotak Mahindra, Big Basket, Ford, Amrita Hospital and JRHA Accounting in the UAE.
Visit us at Edappally in Kochi or Mavoor Road in Kozhikode, or call +91 8007 980 000 to arrange a free counselling session.