Inspired Reflection Techniques to Bring Learning to Life: Weave Active Reflection and Meaning-Making Throughout Your Program (Pre-Conference)
Inspired Reflection Techniques to Bring Learning to Life: Weave Active Reflection and Meaning-Making Throughout Your Program (Pre-Conference of the AEE International Conference)
Tuesday, Nov 10 | 9:00am-4:00pm | Estes Park, CO
Registration Includes a copy of Jen's Book!
Regular - $180
Independent Practitioner or Non-Profit - $144
Student - $90
Please note: this pre-conference does not include lodging or meals. Please see options here. You are welcome to bring your own food.
About the Pre-Conference:
Practical tools, techniques, and new perspectives on the art and science of experiential group facilitation, teaching, and reflection with Jen Stanchfield.
Join this interactive workshop to take advantage of teachable moments and bring learning, training, or counseling experiences to life with engaging, neuroscience-informed, participant-centered reflection. Enliven the traditional sharing circle with multiple modalities, including movement, metaphor, reflective games, art, and interactive dialogue. Increase participants’ emotional connection, relevancy and depth of understanding. Learn ways to intentionally sequence reflection to promote voice, choice, and ownership. Facilitate strong-beginnings and optimistic-endings that reach beyond the group experience. Create lasting lessons and inspire participants to become lifelong reflective learners. Take away inspiration, new perspectives, and practical tools for weaving meaningful reflection throughout your programs. Learn with and from other experiential facilitators.
Attendees Will Gain the Following:
• Compelling neuroscience research that informs purpose, techniques, and best practices for reflection
• Insights into integrating reflection as an ongoing and enjoyable part of learning experiences rather than an "add-on" or didactic "follow-up"
•Engaging techniques to increase relevancy, meaning, depth of understanding, and application to future learning
•Tangible ways to enliven reflection using multiple modalities to include all learners and engaging dialogue structures that honor the introvert
• Adaptable methods for cultivating voice and ownership
• Effective ways to sequence reflection to maximize to promote engagement from all partcipants
• Confidence to take advantage of teachable moments and dynamic ways to weave reflection throughout and beyond learning experiences
• Practices for becoming an intentional and reflective facilitator, educator, counselor, or trainer
Jen Stanchfield M.S. inspires practitioners worldwide with her engaging, informative, and practical workshops, books, and tools. She is recognized for her contributions to the field in making reflection an accessible, active, and engaging part of experiential education and facilitation.. Emphasizing relationships and connection, Jen blends neuroscience with experiential teaching, group facilitation, and community building to foster engagement, reflection, and belonging. With over three decades as an experiential educator, her work has spanned mental health, K-12 and university education, and community organizations, offering practical tools that make learning meaningful and inclusive. Known for her warm, authentic, and gentle style she empowers facilitators with techniques to bring learning to life and build resilient, reflective communities. She is the founder of Experiential Tools and author of Tips and Tools for the Art of Experiential Group Facilitation, Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner and the Inspired Educator Blog at experientialtools.com.
Contact jen@experientialtools.com