Inspire, Engage, Connect & Reflect: Experiential Group Facilitation, Teaching, & Community Building

Name: Inspire, Engage, Connect & Reflect: Experiential Group Facilitation, Teaching, & Community Building
Start: 2024-11-13T09:00:00-05:00
Location: Retreat Farm

Schedule

Wed Nov 13 2024 at 09:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Retreat Farm | Brattleboro, VT

Hosted by Retreat Farm Brattleboro Vermont • Tuition includes lunch and choice of one of Jen Stanchfield's books.
Discounted Lodging Available at Latchis Hotel • Email [email protected] for lodging block information.
Join this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with experiential, brain-based facilitation and teaching techniques to create lasting, meaningful lessons. Build a connected and inclusive community. Explore tangible ways to bring learning to life through multiple pathways and engaging reflection. Cultivate belonging, involvement, participant voice, choice, and ownership.
Integrate group work, academic or training and meeting content with social and emotional learning. Take advantage of teachable moments and enliven meetings, advisory programs, and counseling circles with active reflection methods. Increase emotional connection and depth of understanding. Network and collaborate with other group facilitators, educators and leaders. Leave with creative inspiration, practical tools, and new connections.
Attendees will Take Away:
•Experiential, brain-based strategies to meaningfully engage participants in all kinds of group work and learning situations
•Group work, advisory, morning meetings, and circles facilitation ideas and strategies
•Collaborative, learner-centered ways to create and maintain joyful, connected, and inclusive learning/therapeutic communities
•Dynamic techniques to teach, review, and apply academic or training content
•Intentional approaches to promote involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning
•Methods to cultivate social and emotional skills such as communication, problem-solving, collaboration, self-awareness, and creativity
•Engaging reflection tools and techniques to help learners find meaning and create lasting lessons
•Ways to deepen learning through emotional connection, relevancy, and reflection
•Practices for becoming an intentional, responsive, and reflective educator/facilitator
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, Motivate, Build Community and Create Lasting Lessons, or Tips & Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation.
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."