Experiential Strategies for K-12 and Higher Education
Engagement. Connection. Community building. Relevant, meaningful learning that lasts.
Through professional learning workshops, mentorship and consultation, and direct-service facilitation, Jen Stanchfield inspires educators, education leaders, and counselors to engage students fully, create connected, supportive learning environments, and use reflection to deepen learning and growth.
Jen’s approach is learner-centered, strengths-based, and collaborative, offering practical, brain-based strategies across a breadth of modalities. She acts as a partner in learning, modeling responsive facilitation rather than providing a prescriptive curriculum. She integrates neuroscience, experiential pedagogy and actionable teaching strategies educators can apply immediately to enhance learning outcomes.
Jen’s Foundational Book on Experiential Teaching Methods
“My most engaging and powerful lessons and activities come from Jennifer Stanchfield. When I reflect on what works best in my classroom, every lesson on the top of my list has an element of her wisdom.”
~ Heidi Pauer, New Hampshire English Teacher of the Year
Teacher as Facilitator: What are your teaching goals?
Would you like to engage learners physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually? Students understand and retain material more deeply when meaningful reflection is intentionally woven throughout lessons. Cultivate a greater sense of ownership of learning and belonging with student-centered strategies that bring learning communities to life.
- Increase engagement and participation
- Strengthen student voice, choice, and ownership of learning
- Deepen understanding and retention of lesson content
- Support social, emotional, and relational skill development
- Create connected, inclusive learning environments
- Facilitate meaningful discussions with confidence
These strategies are adaptable across grade levels, roles, and learning contexts.
Learn more about Jen’s work with Educational Leaders and Counselors/Wellness Professionals.
“Jen’s workshops and tools have completely revolutionized the way I facilitate learning with my engineering students. She taught me the importance of trusting students’ autonomy and ability to teach each other through sharing their own experiences. Incorporating intentional reflection throughout class sessions and co-op meetings has made a profound impact on my relationships with students as well as their learning. Jen models exactly what we need to be doing for our students – engaging, playing, and allowing different perspectives to be heard.”
Relevant, Adaptable, Invitational Workshops for Educators
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 educators or co-design a custom workshop with Jen to meet your school, college, or university’s specific needs
Inspired Educator, Engaged Learner: Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Teaching, Facilitation, and Community Building
Create relevant, lasting lessons by empowering students to take ownership of learning. Enhance involvement and retention with active, learner-centered, multi-modal techniques that enliven content delivery and assessment. Integrating academics with 21st century skills and social emotional competencies. Build a joyful, connected, and inclusive learning community while cultivating belonging, student voice, collaboration, and problem solving skills.
Pedagogical Best Practices for the College Educator and Teaching Professor
Harness the power of educational neuroscience and experiential teaching/facilitation modalities to bring your content alive. Engage your students meaningfully by helping them make deeper connections between content and applications to future learning. Use active dialogue structures to build a positive and collaborative learning community and enhance involvement and student voice — even for the introverts. Design curricula that will inspire learning that lasts.
Bring Learning to Life with Active Reflection
Weave accessible reflection and active review strategies throughout your lessons as an engaging core part of experiences rather than an obligatory report out. Increase emotional connection and depth of understanding with multiple brain-based modalities, including movement, metaphor, art, and interactive dialogue. Facilitate continued learning beyond the lesson to inspire students to become lifelong reflective learners.
ALL IN and Empowered: An Invitational Approach to Facilitation and Lesson/Program Design
Intentionally design and sequence interactive, strengths-based lessons and programs to meet students’ differing needs and personalities, building confidence, rapport, and comfort with the group process. Plan learner-centered experiences with the introvert in mind to promote empathy, respect, and collaboration, and ensure that every member of the classroom or school community feels valued and appreciated.
Inspired Advisory Group Leader
Enhance your advisory, crew, wellness, or advocacy group facilitation with practical engagement and reflection methods, intentional ways to invite participation and design experiential theme-based activities. Build a positive, connected, inclusive and supportive advisory community with strategies to actively engage students physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually.
Collaborate with Jen to Create a Custom Workshop for your Organization
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 education, neuroscience research, and tangible strategies based on decades of experience with diverse groups and learners. 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 school, college, or organization’s unique goals.
Ongoing Professional Learning, Consultation, and Mentorship
In this collaborative format, participants learn to increase engagement thoughtfully while meeting specific learning goals. A focused community of practice allows participants to try the methods taught in the program in their own classrooms with the support of both a professional facilitator and a group of their peers.
It takes time and ongoing practice and reflection to solidify skills; ongoing programming is designed to offer the necessary opportunities for practice, reflection, and growth that empower teachers, professors, and counselors with confidence and increased capacity for creativity and risk-taking.
Elevate Your Teaching with Experiential Tools
Based on requests by the educators and facilitators in her programs, Jen has developed many of the reflection and engagement tools she uses in her own facilitation into products you can use in your classroom.
Making experiential, brain-based methods of engagement, reflection, and group dialogue accessible is a passion of Jen’s work and every tool she offers is hand-selected for usability, quality, and aesthetic appeal.
Let’s Bring Learning to Life
Author, educator & facilitator Jen Stanchfield’s innovative workshops and books blend the art of teaching and facilitation with the latest neuroscience. With over three decades of diverse experience in mental health, K-12 education, higher ed, and organizational team building, her teachings have inspired leaders across generations to spark joyful learning, cultivate emotional connection, and build resilient communities.
Jen will support you in moving beyond passive instruction into crafting more rewarding experiences that truly transform. If you’re ready for a collaborative, engaging approach to professional learning, begin a conversation with Jen today.
