April 1st • Putney, VT • Inspire, Engage, Connect & Reflect Workshop
Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Enliven Group Facilitation, Teaching, and Community Building
Putney, VT • Hosted by Next Stage Arts • 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, VT 05346 • 9:00-3:30 • Tuition includes lunch and a copy of one of Jen Stanchfield's books
Join this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with practical strategies to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Enliven teaching, training, counseling, group work and meetings with brain-based, experiential engagement and reflection techniques for all ages.
Explore practical ways to cultivate belonging, involvement, participant voice, choice, and ownership. Integrate academics, training, or counseling lesson content with essential social, emotional, and relational skills. Cultivate the conditions for supportive and productive groups through intentional design and sequencing. Facilitate warm, welcoming activities and optimistic endings to hook attention and create lasting lessons.
Bring learning to life with active participant-centered review and reflection methods including movement, metaphor, art, and interactive dialogue to increase emotional connection, relevancy, application of learning, and depth of understanding. Deepen engagement, inspire meaningful reflection, and maximize learning outcomes with active, multi-modal techniques with learners of all ages.
Use the power of experiential learning to build a creative, joyful, and collaborative community.
Attendees will take away:
- Engaging ways to create meaningful connection from the moment a group walks in the door
- Tools and thematic lesson examples for advisory, crew, morning meeting, circles, counseling facilitation with simple materials and adaptable for various audience
- Collaborative, participant-centered ways to create and maintain joyful and inclusive learning communities that meet the various needs of participants
- Experiential strategies to empower participants in all learning situations with brain-based methods aligned with both adult learning principles and positive youth development
- Practices for becoming an intentional, responsive, and reflective educator or facilitator
- Inspiration and practical tools for weaving meaningful reflection and dialogue throughout your programs
Join us for an inspiring day of networking and meaningful conversation with other facilitators and educators and leave with a fresh perspective on your role as a group facilitator, educator, or counselor.
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."
