Join this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with experiential, brain-based methods to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Enliven teaching, groupwork, circles, advisory, and morning meetings. Explore practical ways to cultivate belonging, involvement, participant voice, choice, and ownership. Integrate academics, meetings, or counseling lesson content with essential life skills and social-emotional competencies. Bring learning to life with active review and reflection techniques. Use the power of play to build a joyful, connected community. Leave with creative inspiration, practical tools, and new 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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What participants are saying: 
"Jen Stanchfield's warm, authentic, gentle, and engaging style makes everyone feel welcome and supported - even online. Jen creates an atmosphere where participants feel like they are partners in the learning experience. I have attended multiple sessions with Jen over the last decade and always take away something new that I can use right away in my teaching and counseling."


" I appreciate that along with sharing your useful tools and techniques, you have helped us engage with and learn from each other. Your style gives everyone ownership in the learning process."

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