Meet your school or organization’s unique goals
Invite Jen to your location for an engaging Professional Development Workshop and fill your group’s teaching, counseling or leadership toolbox with experiential, brain-based techniques to create lasting, meaningful lessons.
Relevant
Applicable, actionable strategies illustrated by relatable real-life examples using a variety of modalities to intertwine neuroscience, experiential education philosophy, and pedagogical best practices.
Adaptable
Modeling responsive facilitation instead of providing a prescriptive program, Jen acts as a partner to establish sustainable and lasting practices that build upon your organization’s existing strengths and unique culture.
Invitational
With a learner-centered and collaborative approach, Jen draws on the strengths of everyone in the room, cultivating opportunities for participants to have ownership and voice within the experience without feeling “put on the spot.”
“Jen’s workshop exemplified how to be mindful of the introvert and make EVERYTHING challenge by choice. Her workshop was very engaging, low stakes, calming, and activity oriented.” ~ Theodore Demosthenes, Equal Opportunity Center Counselor, Mt. Wachusett Community College
Experiential principles can deepen the impact for groups of all kinds, making reflection and meaningful engagement an accessible and ongoing part of learning for all.
Jen has served a wide range of diverse populations in her three decades of work, and has come to be especially recognized in the fields of education, counseling, and facilitation.
Jen inspires educators to engage students physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually with student-centered strategies while cultivating a greater sense of belonging and ownership of learning. She can help you harness the power of experiential approaches and meaningful reflection to leverage content and increase students’ retention and depth of understanding— all while building a positive and supportive learning community.
Whether you’re looking to solidify foundational skills or you’re seeking inspiration and new ideas, Jen helps new and seasoned facilitators to hone skills and find their unique style. Cultivate a positive, engaged group experience with a greater capacity for more invitational, responsive, and reflective leading. Jen will help you blend meaningful and engaging reflection throughout your programming.
Modelling a responsive approach to leadership, Jen empowers educational leaders with practical techniques to enliven meetings and design meaningful professional learning and community building. Boost your ability to spark excitement for learning and help your community engage to build a positive and productive environment.
Confidently guide powerful, strengths-based therapeutic and wellness groups with a foundation of experiential facilitation principles. With Jen’s support, counselors, social workers, psychologists, prevention specialists, and wellness professionals can ignite their passion for facilitating dynamic group work that resonates deeply. She can help you meet program goals by transforming circles into active, powerful tools for connection, healing, and growth and designing and sequencing practical, relevant programs. An experiential approach infused with engaging, multi-modal techniques build rapport, foster trust, and empower everyone in the room to participate and share.
Explore a sampling of popular professional learning workshops to see what’s possible or collaborate with Jen to design a custom workshop that meets your organization’s specific needs.
Inspire, Engage, Connect, and Reflect: Foundations of Experiential Group Facilitation, Training, and Teaching
Deepen engagement and maximize group outcomes with the art and science of intentional facilitation. Inspire meaningful participation and enliven group work by setting the conditions for welcoming and productive spaces through intentional design and sequencing. Cultivate participant-centered dialogue and active reflection to foster a creative and collaborative community. Get participants moving, talking, and reflecting with ease.
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.
Bring Learning to Life with Active Reflection
Weave accessible reflection throughout your programs as an engaging core part of experiences rather than an obligatory report out. Increase emotional connection and depth of understanding with multiple modalities, including movement, metaphor, art, and interactive dialogue. Facilitate continued learning beyond the group experience to inspire participants of all ages to become lifelong reflective learners.
Gathering with Intention: Techniques for Building Connected Communities
Cultivate collaborative experiences that strengthen relationships and bring people together for a shared purpose and sense of belonging. Build rapport, transform organizational climate, and empower participants by fostering deeper communication, self and social awareness, conflict resolution, and gratitude. Create and maintain a positive, effective learning or working community where everyone feels safe and supported to spark more creativity, productivity, and resilience.
ALL IN and Empowered: An Invitational Approach to Facilitation and Program Design
Intentionally design and sequence interactive, strengths-based programs and lessons to meet participants' differing needs and personalities, building confidence, rapport, and comfort with the group process. Plan participant-centered experiences with the introvert in mind to promote empathy, respect, and collaboration, and ensure that every community member feels valued and appreciated.
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.
