Pittsburgh, PA • November 5th • Inspire, Engage, Connect & Reflect Workshop Hosted by AEE

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Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Enliven Teaching, Group Facilitation, and Community Building

AEE Pre-conference
November 5 | 9AM-4PM
Wyndham Grand Downtown Pittsburgh
$179 Regular Rate | $155 Independent Practitioner or Non-Profit | $125 Student (all rates include a copy of Jen Stanchfield's book + one boxed lunch)

Join this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with brain-based methods to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Enliven teaching, group work, circles, meetings, and counseling with engaging, experiential techniques, including movement, metaphor, art, and interactive dialogue to increase emotional connection, relevancy, and depth of understanding.

Explore practical ways to cultivate belonging, involvement, participant voice, choice, ownership, and application of learning. Integrate academics, training, or counseling lesson content with essential life skills, 21st Century Learning, and social-emotional competencies. Bring learning to life and take advantage of teachable moments with active participant-centered review and reflection techniques. Use the power of experiential learning to build a joyful, connected community. Take away inspiration, new perspectives, and practical tools for weaving meaningful reflection and connection throughout your programs.

Attendees will take away:
•  Strategies to empower participants of all ages in all kinds of learning and groupwork situations
•  Collaborative, learner-centered ways to create and maintain joyful and inclusive learning, communities
•Experiential, brain-based techniques to teach and review academic, counseling and training content
•Engaging ways to deepen learning through emotional connection and ongoing active reflection
•Intentional approaches for promoting involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning
•Practical strategies to integrate social-emotional and life skills with academics or program content that you can facilitate with simple materials and adapt to various audiences
•Groupwork, advisory, morning meetings, and circles facilitation ideas
•Games and activities that teach empathy, self and social awareness, communication, and other essential social and emotional skills
•Facilitation strategies to make experiential learning successful.
•Practices for becoming an intentional, responsive, and reflective educator/facilitator

Join us for an inspiring day of networking and meaningful conversation with other experiential practitioners.

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