May 2nd• Brattleboro, Vermont

Hosted by The Vermont Learning and The School for International Training

Join this interactive workshop and fill your teaching 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 of learning, practice social-emotional skills, and build a positive, and supportive group environment. Teach and reinforce academic material in novel ways to differentiate instruction and enhance learning. Leave with creative inspiration and new perspectives on your role as an educator, leader, or counselor.

We will explore:

• Experiential, brain-based strategies to actively engage participants physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually in group development, academic, social-emotional learning, training, or therapeutic content
• New research from the field of educational neuroscience that supports and informs experiential education, facilitation, group-building, instructional design, and social-emotional learning
• Novel and dynamic techniques to teach, review and reinforce training and academic content that help learners apply material in meaningful, relevant ways
• Strategies for increasing involvement, buy-in, and ownership of learning and group development experiences
• Techniques to promote social and emotional learning and develop social awareness, relationship skills, social problem-solving, emotional expression and conflict resolution skills
• 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
• Interactive activities to build community and promote social and emotional learning while enlivening lessons and differentiating instruction
• A variety of rapport building strategies to develop respect, positive communication, collaboration, and creativity
• Methods to help educators and facilitators design, sequence, facilitate and adapt activities to enhance learning outcomes and take advantage of “teachable moments”
• Innovative reflection tools and techniques to increase relevancy, meaning, depth of understanding, and connection to future learning situations
• The role of the facilitator as guide, and the importance of flexibility, attitude, adaptation, and awareness of group and individual needs and differences

These activities can be facilitated in any size space with simple materials. They can be adapted to varying ages, settings, and abilities. Participants will take away strategies that will help them build a positive environment for learning, develop social-emotional skills, actively engage learners, and promote a positive culture in their group sessions, school or workplace.

Tuition includes lunch and a copy of one of Jen Stanchfield’s latest books:Tips & Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation or Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner: Experiential, Brain-Based Activities and Strategies to Engage, Motivate, Build Community and Create Lasting Lessons.

To Register click here.

For more information email: jen@experientialtools.com