Jen Stanchfield’s Upcoming Workshops Designed for Advisory Group Leaders:

Advisory group leaders report that they are always looking for new ideas for facilitating advisory sessions with students. Many educators are planning for the remaining few months of school, summer programs and the start of next school year. The Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset Maine and the Southern Vermont Learning Collaborative in Dummerston, Vermont are each hosting a one day workshop designed for advisory group leaders, counselors, teachers, camp and after school program staff.

This workshop explores activities and experiential approaches that teach and reinforce important social and emotional skills such as positive communication, conflict resolution, decision making, reflection, community awareness, respect, responsibility and problem-solving. Attendees will leave with many practical activities they can use in any size space with simple materials. They will learn helpful facilitation tools and techniques and strategies for creating “buy in” from participants, building a positive environment for learning, and helping students make connections from activities done in advisory group to real life situations. These experiential activities and approaches can be applied to academic, therapeutic and recreational group work and adapted to all age groups.

This workshop is a great resource for any group leader!

• Workshop Tuesday May 11th 9:00-3:00 at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, Maine is $95.00 including lunch. For more information or to register, contact jen@experientialtools.com

• Workshop Tuesday May 18th 9:00-3:30 at the Southern Vermont Learning Collaborative, Dummerston, VT is $120 including lunch. For more information or to register visit: The Southeast Vermont Learning Collaborative