inspires group facilitators and educators worldwide with her engaging, informative, and practical workshops and books and tools. With her welcoming, creative, gentle, and responsive style, she blends the art of experiential teaching and facilitation with the latest neuroscience research. She collaboratively engages participants in developing the skills and tools needed to strengthen relationships and communities and make reflection an accessible and interactive part of learning.
Through ongoing program facilitation and open enrollment workshops, Jen brings the principles of experiential education into the hands of those who lead, teach, and engage with groups in their work. She has helped practitioners in schools, colleges, mental health, wellness, and community organizations, [and businesses?] across the globe develop the skills and confidence they need to f elevate their practice and foster meaningful engagement, collaboration, dialogue, connection, communication, belonging, and reflection.
Knowing that everyone has different levels of comfort in groups, Jen’s facilitation is inclusive and participant-centered, allowing introverts and extroverts alike to feel welcomed in her workshops. Weaving in multiple forms of engagement, Her focus on empowerment and participant choice and voice creates a collaborative learning environment where everyone can grow professionally and walk away with new skills, increased confidence, and fresh perspectives— then bring their learning and tangible strategies beyond the experience and into their communities.
Jen’s innovative, relevant, and strengths-based approach draws on her three decades of diverse experience as a teacher, an expressive/recreational therapist in community and clinical mental health, and as a facilitator of professional development, adult learning, K-12 teaching and support, graduate courses, and organizational team building. She earned her B.S. in Therapeutic Recreation and Outdoor Education from the University of New Hampshire and her M.S. in Experiential Education at Minnesota State University.. She has designed a unique collection of engagement tools and reflection tools used by teachers, mental health counselors, trainers, student opportunity professionals, and facilitators worldwide. She is the author and is the author of Tips and Tools for The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation and Inspired Educator, Inspired Learner: Experiential, Brain-Based Activities and Strategies to Engage, Build Community, and Create Lasting Lessons. Do we need this?When Jen isn’t on the road—leading workshops, visiting farflung friends, and photographing for her postcard sets—she can be found cooking in her vintage kitchen using her collection of 1940’s kitchenware, seeing live music and swing dancing and two-stepping with her husband, Paul, or hiking or skiing in the woods of Vermont. s