Join this interactive workshop and expand your toolbox with experiential, brain-based strategies that inspire engagement and create meaningful, lasting learning. Explore techniques to build joyful, connected, and inclusive learning communities by fostering belonging, student voice, choice, and ownership. Take away practical methods to integrate 21st-century life skills into advisory, counseling lessons, group circles, morning meetings, staff meetings, and classroom instruction.

 

Participants will explore active, student-centered methods grounded in neuroscience and experiential learning to teach, practice, and assess academic content while strengthening collaboration, communication, and social-emotional competencies.

 

Bring learning to life and deepen student involvement, relevance, and understanding. Educators will leave with creative inspiration, new perspectives, ready-to-use strategies, and valuable connections.

 

Attendees will take away:

• Strategies to empower participants of all ages in all kinds of learning and groupwork situations

• Collaborative, learner-centered ways to create and maintain joyful and inclusive learning, communities

• Experiential, brain-based techniques to teach and review academic, counseling and training content

• Engaging ways to deepen learning through emotional connection and ongoing active reflection

• Intentional approaches for promoting involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning

• Practical strategies to integrate social-emotional and life skills with academics or youthwork program content that you can facilitate with simple materials and adapt to various audiences

• Groupwork, advisory, morning meetings, and circles facilitation ideas

• Games and activities that teach empathy, self and social awareness, communication, and other essential social and emotional skills

• Facilitation strategies to make experiential learning successful

• Practices for becoming an intentional, responsive, and reflective educator/facilitator

 

Join us for an inspiring day of networking and meaningful conversation with other educators.

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Registration Forms:

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​​​IMPORTANT INFORMATION: If you use the interactive registration form, please remember to do a "Save As" after you type in your information to save the form to your computer. Then you can print the form to mail or attach the form to email to NELMS.