Madison, WI • Inspire, Engage, Connect & Reflect Workshop

Name: Madison, WI • Inspire, Engage, Connect & Reflect Workshop
Start: 2025-10-03T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-03T15:30:00-05:00
Location: UW Memorial Union

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 08:30 am to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

UW Memorial Union | Madison, WI

Inspire, Engage, Connect and Reflect: Experiential, Brain-Based Approaches to Enliven Group Facilitation, Teaching, and Community Building
Join this interactive workshop and fill your toolbox with brain-based methods to inspire, engage, and create lasting, meaningful lessons. Enliven group work, teaching, training, counseling and meetings 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 content with essential social and emotional skills. Bring learning to life 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 dialogue throughout your programs.
Attendees will take away:
• Collaborative, learner-centered ways to create and maintain joyful and inclusive learning, communities
• Intentional approaches for promoting involvement, voice, choice, and ownership of learning
• Experiential, brain-based techniques to teach, assess, and review content
• Engaging ways to deepen learning through emotional connection and ongoing active reflection
• Practical strategies to integrate social-emotional, relational, and life skills with academics or program content
• Methods to help groups leaders design, sequence, and facilitate to adapt activities to enhance learning outcomes
• 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.