Inspire, Engage, Connect and Reflect: Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Enliven Group Facilitation, Teaching, and Community Building
Join this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with brain-based methods to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Enliven group work, teaching, training, counseling and meetings with engaging, experiential techniques, including movement, metaphor, art, and interactive dialogue to increase emotional connection, relevancy, and depth of understanding.
Explore practical ways to cultivate belonging, involvement, participant voice, choice, ownership, and application of learning. Integrate content with essential social and emotional skills. Bring learning to life with active participant-centered review and reflection techniques. Use the power of experiential learning to build a joyful, connected community. Take away inspiration, new perspectives, and practical tools for weaving meaningful reflection and dialogue throughout your programs.
Attendees will take away:
• Collaborative, learner-centered ways to create and maintain joyful and inclusive learning, communities
• Intentional approaches for promoting involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning
• Experiential, brain-based techniques to teach, assess, and review content
• Engaging ways to deepen learning through emotional connection and ongoing active reflection
• Practical strategies to integrate social-emotional, relational, and life skills with academics or program content
• Methods to help groups leaders design, sequence, and facilitate to adapt activities to enhance learning outcomes
• Practices for becoming an intentional, responsive, and reflective educator/facilitator
This Half-Day workshop is geared towards student leaders and includes a copy of Jen's book. Lunch will also be provided as a part of this workshop.
About Jen Stanchfield:
Jen works with schools and community organizations worldwide to increase meaningful engagement and build community in the classroom and beyond. Jen’s depth of experience, creativity, and knowledge of educational theory and practice is evident in her innovative yet practical workshops and publications in which she incorporates the art of teaching with neuroscience and pedagogical research. She offers educators valuable resources from her diverse experiences with learners of all ages, combined with evidence-informed practices. In her three decades as an educator, Jen has worked as a teacher and a clinician in mental health treatment centers for children and adolescents, community social-work organizations, and professional experiential training and organizational team building. She earned her master’s in Experiential Education at Minnesota State University and continues pursuing the latest pedagogy and educational neuroscience research. Through these experiences, she has developed an extensive repertoire of evidence-informed experiential activities, tools, and strategies she brings to her engaging and informative workshops, publications, and teaching resources. Jen is the author of Tips and Tools for The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation and Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner: Experiential, Brain-Based Activities and Strategies to Engage, Build Community, and Create Lasting Lessons. In addition, she is the creator and regular contributor to the Inspired Educator Blog at experientialtools.com.
