Flow Learning Chart 
Stage One: Awaken Enthusiasm
Quality: Playfulness and Alertness.
Benefits:
  • Builds on people’s love of play.
  • Creates an atmosphere of enthusiasm.
  • A dynamic beginning gets everyone saying, “Yes, I like this!”
  • Develops alertness and overcomes passivity.
  • Creates involvement.
  • Minimizes discipline problems.
  • Develops rapport between participants, leader, and subject. 
  • Fosters positive group bonding. 
  • Provides direction and structure.
  • Prepares for later, more sensitive activities.

Stage Two: Focus Attention
Quality: Receptivity 
Benefits:
  • Increases attention span and concentration.
  • Deepens awareness by focusing attention.
  • Positively channels enthusiasm generated in Stage One.
  • Develops observational skills.
  • Calms the mind.
  • Develops receptivity for more sensitive nature experiences.

Stage Three: Offer Direct Experience
Quality: Communing with nature 
Benefits:
  • Fosters deeper learning and intuitive understanding.
  • Inspires wonder, empathy, and love.
  • Promotes personal revelation and artistic inspiration.
  • Awakens an enduring connection with some part of nature. 
  • Conveys a sense of wholeness and harmony.

Stage Four: Share Inspiration
Quality: Idealism 
Benefits:
  • Clarifies and strengthens personal experience.
  • Increases learning. 
  • Builds on uplifted mood.
  • Promotes positive peer reinforcement.
  • Fosters group bonding.
  • Encourages idealism and altruistic behavior. 
  • Provides feedback for the leader.