Inspired Professional Development
“Jen Stanchfield’s warm, authentic, gentle, and engaging style makes everyone feel welcome and supported – even online. Jen creates an atmosphere where participants feel like they are partners in the learning experience. I have attended multiple sessions with Jen over the last decade and always take away something new that I can use right away in my teaching and counseling.” — who?
Modeling a responsive approach to facilitation, author & educator Jen Stanchfield specializes in professional learning and community building programs for group facilitators, leaders, educators, wellness practitioners, and counselors. Jen guides practitioners in ways to empower participants and more effectively increase positive engagement, connection, reflection, belonging and wellbeing.
Programs are custom designed to intentionally meet your organization’s group development or professional learning goals, whether those goals would be best met with a stand-alone workshop or the continued support of an ongoing program or consulting.
Working with Jen is easy! Choose one of the three options below or reach out to Jen to discuss a workshop or ongoing program that’s right for you and/or your organization.
Join Jen for One of Her Ongoing Open Enrollment Professional Development Workshops for Educators Throughout the U.S.
Bring Jen to Your Location for a Custom Professional Development Workshop Catered to the Specific Needs of Your Group
Collaborate With Jen to Create an Ongoing Professional Development / Mentorship Program for Your School or Organization
Powerful learning requires more than just the right information.
It happens through experience, engagement, and reflection. Jen’s professional development workshops give educators, facilitators, and leaders the skills and tools required to use reflection as a catalyst for growth, connection, and meaningful change.
These trainings focus on supporting you in building practical skills and adaptable tools, so that you leave with strategies to immediately integrate into your work. No matter who you serve or whether you’re looking to deepen engagement, strengthen relationships, or increase impact, Jen will support you in moving beyond passive instruction into experiences that truly engage and transform.
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Professional development workshops are ideal for:
• Educators, instructional staff, and school administration
• Nonprofit and community organization leaders
• Counselors, social workers, and wellness professionals
• Workplace leaders and trainers
• Facilitators seeking to strengthen their experiential practice
• Any professional who works with groups and wants to foster deeper engagement
If your role involves teaching, training, leading, or supporting others, these workshops will strengthen your effectiveness for more engaged learners, stronger outcomes, and more effective work.
Jen’s interactive workshops offer practical tools and techniques for facilitation while exploring the why behind the practice.
Sessions involve a balanced blend of active dialogue, activities, and discussions about application and adaptation, giving participants the confidence needed to adapt offered techniques to their own needs. Her participant-centered, collaborative, and inclusive leading style draws on the strengths of everyone in the room without making anyone feel “put on the spot.” Throughout each session, Jen blends the philosophical foundations of experiential education and neuroscience research with tangible strategies based on decades of experience with diverse groups and students. Reach out to Jen to begin designing a facilitation program to support your organization’s mission. In Jen’s professional development workshops, participants don’t just learn about engagement and reflection; they experience them in real time.
Each training invites participants to experience the very strategies being taught, allowing you to understand both the “how” and the “why” behind the work. You’ll leave with practical techniques, a deeper understanding of the why behind the practices, and a fresh perspective to bring to your work.
Participants learn how to:
• Increase participation and active engagement in any group
• Design experiences that promote curiosity, ownership, and participation
• Weave reflection into all aspects of a group experience to deepen learning, insight, and personal growth
• Turn everyday moments into meaningful opportunities for learning and connection
This is practical learning that translates directly into day-to-day work.
Each professional development workshop is customized to meet your organization’s goals.
Every workshop facilitates skill-building in the moment with a mix of hands-on experiential learning activities and discussion of real-world practice. Participants learn how to build reflection into every piece of their leading and their learning is strengthened by this reflection. Workshop participants actively engage as learners while sharing ownership of the learning, building both confidence and competence. Professional development focuses on training you and your staff to design and facilitate your own engaging, reflective experiences—so the impact continues long after the workshop ends. This approach builds long-term capacity, not just short-term outcomes.
Professional Development can be designed as a full-day training, multi-session professional learning series, or ongoing staff development partnerships. Or take a look at Jen’s upcoming workshops. [[LINK to calendar]]
Custom workshops are shaped around the outcomes that matter most to your organization.
•Increasing student or participant engagement
•Strengthening staff training and professional learning
•Improving reflection and feedback practices
•Enhancing program effectiveness
•Supporting leadership and personal growth
•Re-energizing teams and learning environments
•Clarifying organizational vision and planning
Reach out to Jen to re-energize your organization.
What Participants Take With Them [[should this be laid out as a counterpart to workshop outcomes?]]
Stronger skills for engaging learners and groups
Practical tools to inspire meaningful reflection
Greater confidence facilitating deeper conversations
Brain-based insight into how people learn through experience
Strategies for increasing motivation and participation
Tools to support emotional awareness and growth
Renewed energy for teaching, training, and leading
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 diverse experience as an educator and facilitator, 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.
Invite Jen to Design a
Custom Professional Development Workshop or Ongoing Program for Your School or Organization
“Jen’s ideas and materials have supported the foundation of experiential learning that I have cultivated over 20 years of presenting and working with children and adolescents.” ~Ann B.
Bring one of these six engaging Professional Development workshops to your location, or reach out to me and we’ll create a custom one- or multi-day workshop for your organization, or a longer-term program (3-month, 6-month, or full school year) to deeply integrate these topics and experiential teaching methods into your curriculum and community.
Click on one of the workshops below to learn more, or click here to contact Jen and schedule a free consultation.
