Nashville, TN • Sept 19th • Inspire, Engage, Build Community, and Create Lasting Lessons
Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Build Community, Cultivate Social and Emotional Learning and Create Lasting Meaningful Lessons
9:00-3:00 September 19th, 2023 •Shelby Bottoms Nature Center Classroom • East Nashville
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, Build Community and Create Lasting Lessons or Tips & Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation
Join this interactive session and fill your teaching, counseling, facilitation, or training toolbox with brain-based techniques to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons.
Take away creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as an K-12 or adult educator, facilitator, or counselor. Leave with practical engagement strategies to get learners of all ages moving, talking, and reflecting.
We will explore:
- Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage learners
- Methods to design, sequence, scaffold, and adapt activities to enhance learning outcomes and take advantage of "teachable moments"
- Interactive activities to build rapport and community
- Ways to increase involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning
- Methods for creating a supportive group environment
- Engaging reflection tools and techniques to help learners find meaning
- Novel and dynamic techniques to teach, review, reflect and apply content
- Compelling research from the field of educational neuroscience that supports and informs experiential and social-emotional learning
- Ways to cultivate social and emotional skills such as communication, social problem-solving, relationship skills, collaboration, self-regulation, decision-making, self-awareness, emotional expression, creativity, and reflection
- The role of the educator as guide
- The importance of flexibility, attitude, adaptation, and awareness of the group and individual needs and differences
Tuition includes lunch and a copy of one of Jen Stanchfield's latest books: Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner: Experiential, Brain-Based Activities and Strategies to Engage, Motivate, Build Community and Create Lasting Lessons.
Join this interactive session and fill your teaching, counseling, facilitation, or training toolbox with brain-based techniques to inspire and engage. Empower participants to take ownership of learning, practice social-emotional skills, and build a connected, inclusive, and supportive community. This workshop will enliven groupwork with active, learner-centered participation methods to enhance involvement and create lasting, meaningful lessons.
Harness the power of experiential learning and active reflection and learn practical engagement strategies to get learners of all ages moving, talking, and reflecting. Take away creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as an K-12 or adult educator, facilitator, or counselor.
