Check in 3-5pm 

Introductions/dinner 5-7

8:00 - 10:00am Creative expression and learning

Breakfast 8-9 Setting our intention

Transformative story telling

Activity goal: To discover how self-determination and curiosity drive motivation

Objective:The participants will learn how to use creativity, personalization and curiosity to tap into a student’s inherent motivation to learn. 

10-12. The energy you bring.  Collaborative leadership and Setting boundaries

Activities with horses to understand coherence, collaboration, and energy exchange, and deep listening in relationships.

Objective: The participants will demonstrate and analyze the use of non-dominant, nonverbal communication to elicit compliance, coherence, cooperation, and partnership with their students to reach a common goal.

Lunch 12:30-1:30 Group lunch activity 

Objective: Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback, and generate ideas into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.

1:30-3:30 Motivation, Meaning, Purpose and Relevance

Archery (Zen and the Art of Archery)

We will use the activity of archery to experience how our preconceptions and expectations about an activity as well as how the intended predetermined result of the activity affects our performance, and behavior within the activity. 

Objective: The participant will analyse one or two of their classroom expectations against the motivation constructs of meaning, relevance and purpose, to determine what part of the lesson supports student’s inherent motivation and what parts do not support motivation.

4-6:00pm Body-mind-burnout connection

We will use a walking in nature activity to experience what stressful thoughts do to the body and to the mind.

Objective:The participant will practice 3-5 mindfulness techniques to reevaluate and regulate stressful thoughts in the moment and thus relieve stress throughout their body. The will also identify 3 techniques for sharing stress relief techniques with their students.  

6-8:00 pm Dinner reflection and discussion.

Reflection and collaboration

Objective: Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback to generate activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.

8:00 -9 am Narrative Learning: The story of Jane.

We will use deep listening, observing, egoless, non-judgement as we deconstruct the story of a student. The story of Jane

Objective: Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.

9:00-11:00 Finding Meaning

Activity: Experiencing our surroundings in a new way. Hike

Objective: Based on the work of Ellen Langer, PhD, participants will practice expanding and enhancing awareness in an otherwise common experience in ways that bring to light new information and fresh insights. They will incorporate the experience in reviewing their subject matter and how they present it to their classes.

11-12  Labels and Expectations

Reflecting and expanding on how we see our students: The dandelion story

Objective:Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.

Lunch 12:30-1:30- Collaboration and Reflection

Discussion and brainstorming ideas for the classroom.

Objective:Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.

1:30-3:30  Communication in relationship

Trail Ride- We will ride horses and observe what we are communicating to and receiving from the horse. 

Objective:The participants will learn how to partner with and individualize their reactions and responses to the student at hand while moving toward a mutual goal.

Saturday Evening 4-6 In the teacher student relationship, what do you bring?

Understanding the role of energy in the teacher student relationship, or any relationship for that matter.

Objective: The participant will be able to identify their organic intrinsic motivation to move forward in their life and their profession and identify that energy visually.

Dinner and relaxation 6-8

Breakfast  8-9

9:15-10:15 – Take Away’s

What are three things you are taking away from this experience

How might this experience help you as you move forward in your teaching and in life?

Connect what you learned to 3 of the topics we covered.

Objective:Participants will join in a collaborative discussion with their peers, synthesize their thoughts and peer feedback into activities, lessons and targeted outcomes they can use in their classrooms.

10:30am Farewell and Check out