Build a collaborative and supportive community through meaningful shared experience. Kick off your event with style or cultivate a shared vision and purpose with your team.
With three decades of experience, seasoned facilitator Jen Stanchfield M.S. offers engaging and meaningful direct-service facilitation for schools and organizations around the globe. With skilled facilitation, your team can develop an increased capacity for empathy, respect, and trust to promote positive group norms, cross-departmental communication, and collaborative problem solving.
Rooted in neuroscience and experiential practices, Jen’s warm and co-creative style emphasizes relationships and collaboration. Custom facilitation experiences are participant-centered and strengths-based: intentionally designed to build on the existing capacity and strengths of the group.
Jen collaborates with leadership teams in mission-driven social work, non-profit, education, and mental health organizations to create holistic, accessible programs that are relevant to your organization’s unique needs.
Invite Jen to facilitate an interactive conference keynote, gathering, or event that’s intentionally designed for engagement, meaning, and connection.
Jen brings a deep bag of tools to co-create welcoming and unique experiences, whether you’re in need of rapport and dialogue facilitation for a joyful, reflective, and connection-centered conference kick-off, networking event, or student or family night, or more in-depth facilitation for developing a shared mission and positive group norms during a professional retreat.
Cultivate a shared team vision
Develop your team’s core values in intentionally facilitated meeting experiences that allow leadership to be part of the conversation. Explore your team’s “why” and the story of where you’ve been, where you are now, and how to get to where you want to be. Jen facilitates positive group norm development and visioning through carefully designed and sequenced collaborative experiences to foster problem-solving, trust, and a shared purpose as your team advances your organization’s work.
Build a collaborative community with ongoing support
Jen’s interactive community building programs support organizations in moving beyond surface-level icebreakers to build authentic relationships in organic ways. Whether in classrooms, non-profits, or community organizations, this work empowers everyone in the room to feel safe, valued, and inspired to collaborate, grow, learn, and lead together.
Structured, reflective experiences blend activity with meaning to honor all of the voices in the room. Participants engage in purposeful experiences and deep reflection to foster belonging, broader communication, stronger relationships, empathy, and cooperation. Facilitated programs meet the differing needs and personalities of everyone in the room to build confidence, rapport, and comfort with group processes.
Jen brings people together for meaningful change.
Start your Community Building Program
Each direct-service community building program is customized to meet the unique needs, goals, and culture of your organization. Programs can be delivered as a stand-alone experience or a series of sessions.
1) Every program begins with a conversation, tailoring the experience directly to your organization’s goals and challenges, in service of the culture you want to build.
2) Over the course of the custom program, participants engage in intentionally designed, carefully sequenced experiential activities led by facilitator and educator, Jen Stanchfield. Deep reflection is woven organically through to promote authentic connection, collaboration, and growth.
3) Tools, strategies, and ongoing support help ensure the impact extends far beyond a single session.
Foster a sustainable culture of communication and respect
• Create friendly, welcoming, and supportive spaces where everyone feels seen, heard, and respected
• Cultivate the conditions for open dialogue, relationships, and trust-building for deeper belonging and inclusion
• Improve teamwork and shared accountability, regardless of individuals’ comfort in groups
• Navigate conflict with skill, empathy, and greater emotional awareness
Schedule a conversation with Jen to bring meaningful connection to your organization
Jen brings over three decades of experience offering engaging, responsive staff development and team-building programs as an experiential facilitator, community builder, trainer, and program designer. Her approach is holistic and collaborative, to create unique programs relevant to each organization’s needs.
If you’re ready to strengthen your community, this work can meet you where you are and help you build what’s next. With Jen’s support, you can bring experiences to your community that foster trust, belonging, and authentic connection: the foundation of every healthy, thriving community.
Professional Development on the Art of Facilitation
If you’d like to learn how to facilitate community building experiences yourself, or train your staff to incorporate community building into their work, learn more about Jen professional development trainings on community building.
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Programs are custom designed to meet your organization’s specific group development or professional learning goals, through stand-alone workshops, multi-session series, or ongoing thoughtpartnership.
Invite Jen to your organization for a custom PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP catered to your group’s goals
Collaborate with Jen to create an ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR MENTORING PROGRAM for your organization
Professional learning is shaped around the outcomes that matter most to your organization.
• Increased participation, motivation, and active engagement
• Learning that lasts beyond the end of the experience
• Deeper participant curiosity, insights, and personal growth
• Stronger relationships and more resilient communities
Meet your organization’s goals with relevant, actionable professional learning.
Real, Relevant, & Practical
Experience the transformation of meaningful engagement and intentional reflection in real time.
Skill-building is facilitated in the moment with a mix of active dialogue, hands-on learning activities, and discussion of real-world practice. You’ll leave with practical techniques and the confidence to adapt them to refresh the work you’re already doing.
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.
Author, educator & facilitator Jen Stanchfield’s innovative workshops and books blend the art of teaching and facilitation with the latest neuroscience. With over three decades of diverse experience in mental health, K-12 education, higher ed, and organizational team building, her teachings have inspired leaders across generations to spark joyful learning, cultivate emotional connection, and build resilient communities. No matter who you serve, Jen will support you in moving beyond passive instruction into crafting more rewarding experiences that truly transform. If you’re ready for a collaborative, engaging approach to professional learning, begin a conversation with Jen today.
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.
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