Jennifer Stanchfield
High 5 Adventure Learning Center
130 Austine Drive
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301
high5adventure.org
experientialtools.com
Jennifer Stanchfield, MS is author of Tips & Tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation and co-author of A Teachable Moment:A Facilitator's Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing and Reflection with Michelle Cummings and Jim Cain.
Jen began her professional involvement in Experiential Education in 1989. In her years as a recreational therapist, educator and challenge course facilitator she has worked with many different groups of all ages and backgrounds from elementary students, to patients in treatment programs to corporate executives. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of New Hampshire and a masters of science in experiential education from Minnesota State University Mankato.A focus of her work has been helping schools use experiential methods to create a positive school climate and increase student engagement and positive learning outcomes. She is well known in the experiential education field for developing and sharing tools and ideas to enhance the art of group facilitation and reflective practice.
Jen Currently works as training and program design coordinator and curriculum specialist for High 5 Adventure Learning Center in Brattleboro, VT where she trains facilitators, works directly with students and teachers and designs experiential education and challenge course curriculum for schools, treatment programs and other organizations. She and her husband Paul live in the mountains of southern Vermont.
Publications:
- Tips and Tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation- newly released by Wood-n-Barnes Publishing
- A Teachable Moment: A Facilitator's Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing and Reflection (co-author)
- Creator of the Miniature Metaphors Processing Tool Kit
- Author of the byline Facilitator's Toolbox for the quarterly Association for Challenge Course Technology Newsletter