Saukville, WI • February 22nd • Inspire, Engage, Connect and Reflect Workshop
9:00-3:00 • Riveredge Nature Center • County Rd Y • Saukville, WI
Tuition includes lunch and a copy of Jen's Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner book.
Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Build Community, Integrate Content and Social and Emotional Learning, and Create Lasting Meaningful Lessons
Join this interactive session and fill your group facilitation, teaching, counseling, or training toolbox with brain-based techniques to inspire and engage. Use the power of play, reflection, and brain-based Experiential Learning to build community, integrate social and emotional learning with academic or training content. Enliven advisory, meetings, circles, and other groupwork.
Take away creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as an educator, facilitator, or counselor. Leave with practical engagement strategies to get learners of all ages moving, talking, and reflecting. Bring learning to life and create lasting lessons with meaningful reflection tools and Techniques. Enhance the traditional sharing circle with active methods to increase emotional connection and depth of understanding.
We will explore:
- Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage learners of all ages
- Ways to promote involvement, voice, choice, belonging, and ownership in groupwork and learning
- Methods to design, sequence, and adapt activities to enhance learning outcomes and leverage "teachable moments"
- Collaborative, learner-centered ways to cultivate belonging and community
- Engaging reflection tools to help learners find meaning, and deepen learning
- Novel and dynamic techniques to teach, review, and apply learning in meaningful, relevant ways
- Brain-based activities to integrate social and emotional skills with academic or training content
- Strengths-based methods to teach and practice social and emotional skills such as communication, empathy, social problem-solving, relationship skills, collaboration, self-awareness, emotional expression, creativity, and reflection
Tuition includes lunch and a copy of one of Jen Stanchfield's books: Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner: Experiential, Brain-Based Activities and Strategies to Engage, Motivate, Build Community and Create Lasting Lessons, or Tips & Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation.
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."
