The main goal of this Thesis is to design possible programs of experiential tourism for castle in Žďár nad Sázavou. Whole work is divided into six chapters. The theoretical part is devoted to the explanation of the concept of experience, its key features and significance for tourism. The following chapter discusses the possible use of experiential methods in tourism education and clarifies the basic principles and methods of this pedagogical sector. The next part describes examples of existing experiential programs and characteristics of Žďár nad Sázavou and castle from the perspective of tourism. Based on the findings from the theoretical part, there we created new experiential programs designed especially for segment of school groups.

Using methodologies of interviews and observation, this study focuses on three distinctive and successful kinds of experiential education: a summer arts program, an outdoor science program and a wilderness education program. The project applies insights from the programs to the central question of this thesis: How can experiential learning be utilized within the traditional classroom given the constraints of the No Child Left Behind Law and standardized teaching?

<p>Although it has been hypothesized that chronic emotional invalidation by a parent may have lasting effects on later ability to regulate emotions, and possibly increase the chances of experiencing symptoms of psychopathology, the possible mechanisms surrounding this relationship have not been adequately explored. Further, many investigations have used retrospective reports of invalidation, which may be subject to bias. This pilot study of 19 adolescent-parent dyads explored associations between invalidation, experiential avoidance, and child symptoms of psychopathology in a cross sectional design. Retrospective reports of invalidation as well as an observationally-coded measure of invalidation during laboratory discussions of emotion were utilized, and compared for agreement. The feasibility and acceptability of a larger investigation of these questions is also discussed. It was found that adolescent-reported recalled invalidation seemed to show a stronger pattern of association with observationally coded invalidation than do parent reports. Additionally, several alternative mechanistic hypotheses showed some promise for further exploration. This pilot study was found to be acceptable to participants; however, recruitment of adolescents from a clinical population - and their parents to participate with them - was the greatest obstacle to feasibility for a larger study.</p> / Dissertation

Abstract Intuition is one of human¡¦s instincts. It plays a major part in our daily decision-making. However, people experience intuition to different extents. Some may have deeper experience than others. Some may depend much on intuition in making decisions, while others tend to depend more on reason. Although there is risk in intuitional decision-making, many chiefs of businesses believe that intuition can be reliable for decision-making and therefore have made good achievements. The study investigated the intuition-experiential ability and intuition-experiential engagement of the chiefs in Kaohsiung¡¦s metals model industries and the degree of trust for intuitional decision-making of practical management on their company. The study found that the chief¡¦s age and years of service are not related to their trust in intuitional decision-making; intuition-experiential ability is also not related to their trust in intuitional decision-making. However, the intuition-experiential engagement is related to their trust in intuitional decision-making. The academic contribution this study makes is arranging intuitional conceptions and developing intuitional decision-making model, so that people can understand intuition better and come to have faith in intuition. Moreover, it raises Taiwanese people¡¦s interest in the research of intuition. This study concludes that, in aspect of practice of enterprises, chiefs can trust more in and make use of their intuition.

Experience economy reinforces not only the correlation intensity between enterprise and its customers, but also the differentiations with competitors. Above all, it enhances value and price, and frees itself from price competition. The operation model and product / service are getting similar in the industry of direct selling, so consciousness of crisis urges those companies to keep close relationship with distributors. Except for reward system, the direct selling companies will seek for intensifying distributor¡¦s willingness and capabilities throughout training and marketing in the ¡§Meeting Place¡¨. The ¡§Meeting Place¡¨ can be regarded as the base where the potential distributors are nurtured. Hence, ¡§participating in every meeting¡¨ has become a key successful factor for direct selling. This study adopts the method of qualitative research to study how the various experiential theories apply to direct selling. It attempts to define and to confer the above-stated terms based on authors¡¦ practical participation experience and analyzes the triple role, consumer-seller-operator; a distributor plays in the mean time. The conclusions of this study are summarized as follows: ¤@Experiential theories are broadly used in the industry of direct selling, but they lack of systematic planning and thinking. ¤@Experiential theories can fit the triple role of different stages. ¤@A model of the activities in the ¡§Meeting Place¡¨ is built as reference of future application for scholars and direct selling operators.

Due to the competition in the market and the challenge of the products of the other brands in the different sales channels, the traditional marketing strategy has gradually lost the attraction of customers and develop accordingly many new methods of marketing. Among them , the experiential marketing has been to attach broadly importance to discuss by industries in these days, such as Starbucks coffee shop. The experiential marketing switches the emphasis on the functionality and effectiveness to creations of the consumption process among perception, emotion, cerebration, action and relations. And so the best way for corporations is to develop the methods of marketing with being moved to customers at the moment. The major consumers of direct selling industry in Taiwan is women, so the objective of this study is Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc which is focus on female consumers. And based on the strategic experiential module evolved by Schmitt.To apply the five dimensions of sense, feel, think, act, relate to research the acceptance of consumers for the marketing ways and to explore whether these dimensions affect consumer¡¦s behavior with the combination of literature review, in depth interviews and content analysis as well. Findings suggest that these five dimensions affect the consumer¡¦s behavior and the impact of feel plays the most important roll of all. And the marketing of act and relates are important because of involving in interpersonal relationship and community operation. Mary Kay and the other companies in direct selling industry what are focus on the sales channel of distributors may refer to this model to induce the consumption of consumers.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2009. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-115).

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-234).

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993. / Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: L. Lee Knefelkamp. Dissertation Committee: Dawn R. Person. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-274).