Recent educational settings targeted at self-initiated learning and supporting collaborative, face-to face as well as online processes impose new challenges on both learners and educators. What role does the Person Centered Approach play in today's higher education? Where should it go?The goal of this workshop is learn to know and to inspire one another on the basis of the participants' experiences, goals, intentions, and visions for person centered, experiential learning. Furthermore, participants will share results/plans/challenges/problems in accompanying research approaches aiming to open up potentials for learning from each other and joining forces in future development and research. The fundamental hypothesis is that Person Centered education has the potential to improve learners' as well as facilitators' coping with several challenges of our modern knowledge society, such as life-long, self directed learning, dealing with several sources of information, communicating over various media, working in intercultural environments and teams, increased dynamics in several aspects of life, etc. The basic questions are: How can we contribute most effectively? And: How can we, in a society where measurement and data is valued most prominently, convincingly show we are doing so?

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