empowers educators and facilitators to cultivate meaningful engagement and build resilient communities. Her interactive workshops and ongoing professional support have inspired practitioners and strengthened organizations around the world. 
“I loved the entire workshop. From the gentle way it began, to the time to talk through ideas with smart, thoughtful people, to Jen’s strategies and helpful ways of bringing it back to philosophical teachings and education research — it was such a great day.”
~ Amy Sullivan, Educator, South Portland Public Schools
Co-design a Custom Program

“I loved the entire workshop. From the gentle way it began, to the time to talk through ideas with smart, thoughtful people, to Jen’s strategies and helpful ways of bringing it back to philosophical teachings and education research – it was very refreshing and such a great day.”

~ Amy Sullivan, Educator, South Portland Public Schools
Fill your toolbox with experiential, participant-centered strategies to enliven your teaching, group facilitation, and community building.

Collaborate on a Professional Development Workshop or Program

that gives educators, facilitators, and leaders practical skills and adaptable tools to harness experiential engagement and reflection as a catalyst for growth, connection, and meaningful change.
Whether you’re looking to enhance participant involvement, strengthen relationships, or increase your impact as a leader, you’ll leave with the strategies and confidence you need to create experiences that truly engage and transform.
Create a custom professional development plan to support your organization’s goals or explore upcoming open-enrollment workshops.

Invite Jen to Your Location for Responsive Facilitation

of community building programs, events, and team visioning. Jen supports organizations in developing an increased capacity for comfort, respect, and trust. She can help you and your team promote positive group norms, constructive cross-departmental and cross-generational communication, and collaborative problem solving.
Jen’s interactive, introvert-friendly approach meets the differing needs and personalities of all participants so that everyone in the room can build confidence, rapport, and comfort with group processes. 
Bring your team together in purposeful conversation to create a shared vision.
"Jen's workshops are just like her: fun, interesting, inspirational and so helpful! Jen's combined experience in the experiential education field and in education makes her presentations relevant and immediately applicable in our classrooms and groups. We bring her to our district whenever we can."

Mary Beer

Milwaukee Public Schools
"One of the best professional learning experiences I have attended. I loved the interactive and participatory nature, learning from one another, and the fluidity of the day. I appreciated how welcoming Jen was and how she responded to the needs of the group."

Olivia Strauss

Chicago Public Schools
"Jen is a thoughtful, generous person who likes to have fun while learning. One of the things I enjoy most about Jen is the pace she has with learners. She allows time for processing and application. She does not rush her learners and is willing to slow down when needed. It always feels tailored to what I need and want."

Marci Moloney

Livingston Educational Service Agency, Michigan
"I've already started incorporating some of her strategies into my classroom lessons. I can especially see these techniques being beneficial when starting a new program — such as beginning of year building classroom cohesion, promoting teamwork, or supporting problem-solving skills."

Jennifer Tanksley, LCSW

Eastside Elementary School, Indiana
"Jen's work is compelling, creative, and creditable. She's lovely, warm, and someone you want to hang with and learn from. She created enjoyable connections during our professional learning sessions, but most importantly the strategies she shared got my students laughing, smiling, and engaging."

Susan Diaz

EL Specialist, Metro Nashville Public Schools
"Jen is never on a stage. She learns everyone's name. She gathers information before she trains. She's invested. The value of Jen's service is the relationship she builds with each participant, and the support and follow-through she provides as a matter of course."

Stacia Bowley

Austin Independent School District and Youth Launch Austin

The short answer is, a method based on the idea that change and growth take place when people are actively (physically, socially, intellectually, emotionally) involved in their learning. This participant-centered approach combined with meaningful reflection creates lasting lessons. Want to dive deeper into the connection between experiential education and neuroscience?
Learn More

How Can Jen Support Your Practice?

Experiential Teaching & Facilitation Practices

Reflection Tools & Techniques

Community Building and Social-Relational Skills

Meaningful Engagement Strategies

Experiential principles can deepen the impact for groups of all kinds, making reflection and meaningful engagement an accessible and ongoing part of learning for all.

Jen has served a wide range of diverse populations in her three decades of work, and has come to be especially recognized in the fields of education, counseling, and facilitation.

Jen inspires educators to engage students physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually with student-centered strategies while cultivating a greater sense of belonging and ownership of learning. She can help you harness the power of experiential approaches and meaningful reflection to leverage content and increase students’ retention and depth of understanding— all while building a positive and supportive learning community.

> more about Jen’s work with Educators

Whether you’re looking to solidify foundational skills or you’re seeking inspiration and new ideas, Jen helps new and seasoned facilitators to hone skills and find their unique style. Cultivate a positive, engaged group experience with a greater capacity for more invitational, responsive, and reflective leading. Jen will help you blend meaningful and engaging reflection throughout your programming.

> more about Jen’s work with Facilitators

Modelling a responsive approach to leadership, Jen empowers educational leaders with practical techniques to enliven meetings and design meaningful professional learning and community building. Boost your ability to spark excitement for learning and help your community engage to build a positive and productive environment.

> more about Jen’s work with Educational Leaders

Confidently guide powerful, strengths-based therapeutic and wellness groups with a foundation of experiential facilitation principles. With Jen’s support, counselors, social workers, psychologists, prevention specialists, and wellness professionals can ignite their passion for facilitating dynamic group work that resonates deeply. She can help you meet program goals by transforming circles into active, powerful tools for connection, healing, and growth and designing and sequencing practical, relevant programs. An experiential approach infused with engaging, multi-modal techniques build rapport, foster trust, and empower everyone in the room to participate and share.

> more about Jen’s work with Counselors

Join Jen at an Upcoming Workshop

Become a partner in the learning process. Through interactive, evidence-informed facilitation, workshop participants don’t just learn practical skills for engagement, reflection, and community building: they experience them.

Upcoming Open-Enrollment Workshops

Elevate Your Facilitation or Teaching
with Experiential Reflection & Engagement Tools

PICK-A-POSTCARD
Prompt dialogue, resolve conflict and establish norms, and inspire broader and deeper reflection with this newly expanded collection of photographs by Jen Stanchfield.
EVERYWHERE A SIGN
Capture a group’s attention and inspire meaningful reflection and conversation with these vintage and unique signs spotted on Jen Stanchfield’s travel adventures.
CONVERSATION STARTER BUTTONS
Get a group engaged and interacting with these regularly updated slogans and images to start conversations, explore perspectives, or prompt processing.
MINIATURE METAPHORS
A “pocket-sized” tool for sparking meaningful reflection and active dialogue that’s designed to be easy to carry into the field.
Shop Teaching Tools

Author, educator & facilitator Jen Stanchfield empowers practitioners worldwide with innovative workshops and books that blend the art of teaching and facilitation with the latest neuroscience. With over three decades of experience as a community builder, experiential educator and facilitator, mental health professional, and trainer, Jen integrates her collaborative, welcoming approach with practical tools and techniques. Her teachings have inspired educators and facilitators across generations to cultivate meaningful reflection and build resilient communities. She is the author of several books on experiential education and is the founder of Experiential Tools.

More About Jen

Organizations Jen’s Worked With (click for full list)

Jen is dedicated to creating participant-centered, collaborative, engaging programs. Her intentionally designed and carefully sequenced facilitation models a responsive approach that honors and draws on the strengths of everyone in the room, regardless of their comfort in group settings.

Reach out to Jen to collaborate on customizing a program to fit your group’s unique needs.
Start a Conversation
Inspire, Engage, Connect, Reflect: Fill your toolbox with experiential, learner-centered strategies to enliven your teaching, group facilitation, and community building.
good_home_crwd_1100