Ansel Woldt discusses his experience with childhood injury and his need for Gestalt therapy (an experiential form of psychotherapy) and its connection to creative learning. There are so many young students who have gone through some sort of trauma, physical or mental, and those experiences may cause them trouble in a traditional classroom setting. By including creative and imaginative learning in the classroom, teachers who have students who learn through experience will be including an otherwise left out student in their learning.

This article goes through the various ways in which creative classroom environments include students who need to experience in order to learn. It is important to think about our students, their needs and their pasts in order to teach them in a way that fosters meaningful learning. Not all students need experiential activities in order to learn, but we need to think of all of our students when creating our lessons, we need to make sure that everyone is given the opportunity to learn.