Responsive Facilitation for Community Building, Goal Setting & Events
Build a collaborative and supportive community through meaningful shared experience. Kick off your event with style or cultivate a shared vision and purpose with your team.“I’ve never attended a workshop as inviting and accommodating as this. Jen makes a point to be in tune with the needs of the entire group. Her warmth creates a space of openness and risk taking.”
— Emma Ambrose, School Counselor, Gorham Middle School
With three decades of experience, seasoned facilitator Jen Stanchfield M.S. offers engaging and meaningful direct-service facilitation for schools and organizations around the globe. With skilled facilitation, your team can develop an increased capacity for empathy, respect, and trust to promote positive group norms, cross-departmental communication, and collaborative problem solving.
Rooted in neuroscience and experiential practices, Jen’s warm and co-creative style emphasizes relationships and collaboration. Custom facilitation experiences are participant-centered and strengths-based: intentionally designed to build on the existing capacity and strengths of the group.
Jen collaborates with leadership teams in mission-driven social work, non-profit, education, and mental health organizations to create holistic, accessible programs that are relevant to your organization’s unique needs.
Invite Jen to facilitate an interactive conference keynote, gathering, or event that’s intentionally designed for engagement, meaning, and connection.
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, reflective, and connection-centered conference kick-off, networking event, or student or family night, or more in-depth facilitation for developing a shared mission and positive group norms during a professional retreat.
Cultivate a shared team vision
Develop your team’s core values in intentionally facilitated meeting experiences that allow leadership to be part of the conversation. Explore your team’s “why” and 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.
Build a collaborative community with ongoing support
Jen’s interactive community building programs support organizations in moving beyond surface-level icebreakers to build authentic relationships in organic ways. Whether in classrooms, non-profits, or community organizations, this work empowers everyone in the room to feel safe, valued, and inspired to collaborate, grow, learn, and lead together.
Structured, reflective experiences blend activity with meaning to honor all of the voices in the room. Participants engage in purposeful experiences and deep reflection to foster belonging, broader communication, 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.
Start your Community Building Program
Each direct-service community building program is customized to meet the unique needs, goals, and culture of your organization. Programs can be delivered as a stand-alone experience or a series of sessions.- Every program begins with a conversation, tailoring the experience directly to your organization’s goals and challenges, in service of the culture you want to build.
- Over the course of the custom program, participants engage in intentionally designed, carefully sequenced experiential activities led by Experiential Tools founder, Jen Stanchfield. Deep reflection is woven organically through to promote authentic connection, collaboration, and growth.
- Tools, strategies, and ongoing support help ensure the impact extends far beyond a single session.
Foster a sustainable culture of communication and respect
- Create friendly, welcoming, and supportive spaces where everyone feels seen, heard, and respected
- Cultivate the conditions for open dialogue, relationships, and trust-building for deeper belonging and inclusion
- Improve teamwork and shared accountability, regardless of individuals’ comfort in groups
- Navigate conflict with skill, empathy, and greater emotional awareness
Bring meaningful connection to your organization
Jen offers engaging, responsive staff development and team-building programs 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.
If you’re ready to strengthen your community, this work can meet you where you are and help you build what’s next. With Jen’s support, you can bring experiences to your community that foster trust, belonging, and authentic connection: the foundation of every healthy, thriving community.
Professional Development on the Art of Facilitation
Learn how to facilitate community building experiences yourself, or train your staff to incorporate community building into their work, with Jen’s professional development trainings on community building.
