Strengthen Your Mission-driven Organization with Experiential Facilitation
Jen’s authentic, interactive community building programs and staff development empower organizations to move beyond surface-level trainings to build resilient communities.
Through community building, staff training, and experiential meeting design, facilitator & author Jen Stanchfield works with mission-driven small businesses, non-profits, and community organizations to harness experiential engagement, joy, and reflection as catalysts for growth, connection, and meaningful change.
Jen empowers organizational leaders and their teams with practical techniques to enliven meetings, enhance collaboration, and design engaging professional learning. She will boost your ability to spark excitement and help your community create a positive, productive environment.
Experiential Tools for Community Building, Dialogue, and Visioning
Based on requests by facilitators in her programs, Jen has developed many of the tools she uses in her own facilitation into products you can use in your work.
Making experiential, brain-based methods of engagement, reflection, and group dialogue accessible is a passion of Jen’s and every tool she offers is hand-selected for usability, quality, and aesthetic appeal.
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Inspired Leaders: Modeling a Responsive Approach from the Top
With a collaborative approach informed by neuroscience research and experiential principles, you can model responsive, participant-centered facilitation for your organization.
Whether you’re in a business, non-profit, or community organization, this work empowers leaders to create experiences where everyone in the room feels safe, valued, and inspired to collaborate, grow, and lead.
Workshops for Organizational Leaders and Training Staff
You will leave with actionable strategies and easy to implement tools that support the work you’re already doing.Choose from a sampling of popular professional learning workshops for organizational leaders and trainers or co-design a custom workshop with Jen to meet your organization’s unique needs.
The Inspired Trainer or HR Professional
Enhance the facilitation of training, instruction, team-building, and vision-setting with experiential, brain-based engagement techniques to cultivate relevancy, emotional connection, and meaning. Build connected, invested, and supportive communities by increasing involvement, buy-in, voice, choice, and ownership of training and group development experiences. Develop and strengthen your unique style as an experiential facilitator.
Gathering with Intention: Techniques for Building Connected Communities
Cultivate collaborative experiences that strengthen relationships and bring teams together for a shared purpose and deep sense of belonging. Build rapport, transform organization climate, and empower participants by fostering deeper communication, self and social awareness, conflict resolution, and gratitude. Create and maintain a positive, effective working community where everyone feels safe and supported to spark more creativity, productivity, and resilience.
ALL IN and Empowered: An Invitational Approach to Training, Meetings, and Program Design
Intentionally design and sequence interactive, strengths-based programs to meet participants’ differing needs and personalities, building confidence, rapport, and comfort with the group process. Plan participant-centered experiences with the introvert in mind to promote empathy, respect, and collaboration, and ensure that every member of the organization feels valued and appreciated.
Inspire, Engage, Connect, and Reflect: Experiential Group Facilitation, Training, and Community Building Approaches
Deepen engagement and create lasting positive change with the art and science of intentional facilitation. Inspire meaningful participation by setting the conditions for welcoming and productive meetings and trainings through intentional design and sequencing. Cultivate participant-centered dialogue and active reflection to foster a creative and collaborative community. Get participants moving, talking, and reflecting with ease.
Active and Engaging Reflection Techniques to Bring Learning to Life
Weave accessible reflection throughout your programs as an engaging core part of experiences rather than an obligatory report out. Increase emotional connection and depth of understanding with multiple modalities, including movement, metaphor, art, and interactive dialogue. Facilitate continued engagement beyond the group development experience.
Harness the Power of Play for Community Building, Training, and Skills Development
Harness the power of play to engage adult learners. Cultivate belonging and strengthen relational skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, and reflective learning through playful techniques that are thoughtfully designed for adult groups. Create the conditions for meaningful participation, honor the introverts, and enhance buy-in and engagement through participant-centered strategies that build comfort with group processes. Fill your community building, facilitation, and training toolkit with strategies that can be used in any size space with simple materials and easily adapted to all kinds of settings. Build a positive environment, infuse joy, and promote positive relationships in your groups.
Collaborate with Jen to Create a Custom Workshop That Fits Your Needs
Jen’s interactive workshops explore the why behind the practice to offer practical tools and techniques and the confidence you need to adapt them right away. Each workshop blends the foundations of experiential facilitation, neuroscience research, and tangible strategies based on decades of experience with diverse groups. Her participant-centered approach creates a forum for everyone in the room to learn from each other. Reach out to Jen to start a conversation about your organization’s unique goals.
“Jen is a dynamic and very authentic presenter/facilitator. I loved the practical application of the concepts and the links to brain research. This workshop has given us many useful tools and skills we can incorporate immediately into our trainings. This workshop really will help me to improve my training and is encouraging me to break out of the mold. Best training ever!”
Cultivate collaboration with ongoing professional development, mentorship, and consultation
Jen’s interactive community building programs support organizations in moving beyond surface-level trainings to build authentic relationships in organic ways.
Structured, reflective experiences blend activity with meaning for purposeful experiences and deep reflection that fosters belonging, broader communication, and stronger relationships, empathy, and cooperation. Facilitated programs meet the differing needs and personalities of everyone in the room to build confidence, rapport, and comfort with group processes.
Jen brings people together for meaningful change.
Engage in a longer term professional development experience with Jen. Through ongoing consultation and mentorship, participants learn to increase engagement thoughtfully while meeting training goals. A focused community of practice allows participants to try the methods taught in the program in their own communities with the support of both a professional facilitator and a group of their peers.
It takes time, repeated practice with support, and reflection to solidify skills; ongoing programming is designed to offer the necessary opportunities for growth that empower leaders with confidence and increased capacity for creativity and cultivating engagement.
Cultivate a shared team vision
Develop your team’s core values in intentionally facilitated retreats or meeting experiences that allow leadership to be part of the conversation. Explore your team’s “why”: the story of where you’ve been, where you are now, and how to get to where you want to be.
Jen facilitates positive group norm development and visioning through carefully designed and sequenced collaborative experiences to foster problem-solving, trust, and a shared purpose as your team advances your organization’s work.
Jen brings a deep bag of tools to co-create welcoming and unique experiences. Whether you’re in need of rapport and dialogue facilitation for a joyful and connection-centered experience, professional development training, or more in-depth group facilitation to develop a shared mission and positive team norms during a staff retreat, strengthen your community with intentional facilitation that allows leadership to be part of the experience.
Jen’s Foundational Books on Experiential Education and Facilitation Methods
“Jen emphasizes that reflection is one of the most effective ways to promote learning and growth. With her techniques, the process becomes enjoyable and approachable, breaking away from the typical idea of reflection as a question-and-answer exercise. She makes you think about reflection in a whole new light. ” ~ Gwen Roemer, Associate Director, International Programs Office at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business
- Strengthen essential leadership and facilitation skills to navigate today’s complexities
- Increase buy-in and participation from staff and your broader community
- Foster shared ownership and a unifying vision for organizational success
- Build trust and credibility within your organization and community to improve climate and collaboration
- Use simple, multi-modal activities for more engaging and collaborative planning, goalsetting, and reflecting
- Support staff well-being for a positive group culture
- Facilitate difficult conversations with clarity and confidence
Flexible and easy to transfer into real-world practice, a breadth of modalities offers practical ways to engage and inspire participants across personalities, comfort levels, and group needs.
Let’s Spark Meaningful Change
Author & facilitator Jen Stanchfield’s innovative workshops and books blend the art of facilitation and the latest neuroscience. Jen’s engaging, responsive staff development and team-building programs are informed by her three decades of experience as an experiential facilitator, community builder, trainer, and program designer. Her approach is holistic and collaborative, to create unique programs relevant to each organization’s needs.
This work can meet you where you are and help you build what’s next; Jen will support you in modeling the change you would like to see in your organization. Begin a conversation today to bring a collaborative, engaging approach to your professional learning.
