Teachable Moments: Bring Learning to Life with Engaging Reflective Tools and Techniques

Description: 

Come and experiment with an interesting array of methods that meet a wide range of learning styles. Leave with new processing tools, activities and ideas to add to your facilitation, teaching and counseling repertoire. These participant centered methods will dramatically improve your ability to turn teachable moments into profound personal insights and lasting lessons.
Reflection brings learning to life. Reflective practice helps learners make connections between educational experiences and real life situations, increases personal insight, and creates pathways to future learning. Educators recognize the value of reflection and processing, but often find that facilitating it is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching, counseling, and group work.
This interactive workshop offers a variety of innovative reflection tools and experiential learning approaches to engage learners physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually. These participant centered methods will dramatically improve your ability to turn teachable moments into profound personal insights and lasting lessons.
Topics Include:
• Experiential approaches to engage learners physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually
• A variety of innovative processing tools and techniques
• Active brain-friendly strategies to engage learners in meaningful reflection, review and dialogue
• Methods for using metaphor to create meaning
• Exploration of the use of art, objects, journaling and movement in reflection.
Come and experiment with an interesting array of methods that meet a wide range of learning styles. Leave with new processing tools, activities and ideas to add to your facilitation, teaching and counseling repertoire.

Event Begins: 
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Date(s): 
March 22, 2012
Fees: 

$95

Location: 
The Learning Collaborative
Register: 

Online with the Learning Collaborative

Instructor(s):