Join this interactive workshop and fill your group facilitation, teaching, leadership or counseling toolbox with experiential, brain-based techniques to inspire, motivate, and promote engagement and buy-in. Take away innovative methods to get your groups moving, talking and reflecting. Empower participants to take ownership over learning, practice social-emotional skills, and build a positive, and supportive group environment. Teach and reinforce academic or training material in novel ways to differentiate instruction and enhance learning. Leave with creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as a facilitator, educator, or leader.

We will explore:

  • Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage participants physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually
  • New research from the field of educational neuroscience and its impact on learning and social-emotional skills development
  • Methods for creating a positive, productive and supportive group environment
  • Strategies for increasing  involvement, buy-in, and ownership of learning experiences
  • Novel and dynamic techniques to teach, review and reinforce training and academic content that help learners apply material in meaningful, relevant ways
  • Fundamentals of experiential group facilitation and teaching such as the importance of participant choice and control, sequencing, ongoing assessment, and meaningful reflection to create lasting lessons
  • Engaging group-building activities to develop rapport, community, and social-emotional skills such as positive communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and decision-making
  • Innovative reflection tools and techniques to increase relevancy, meaning, depth of understanding, and connection to future learning situations
  • The role of the educator/facilitator as guide, and cultivation of flexibility, attitude, adaptation, and awareness of group and individual needs and differences

9:00-3:30 April 12th • Ortonville, MI • Hosted by Tamarack Adventure and Retreat Center

Tuition Includes Lunch and Your Choice of one of  Jen Stanchfield’s books Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner or Tips & Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation.  $125.00

To Register click here.

For more information email: jen@experientialtools.com