I offer customized workshops for each unique context. Listed below are workshop offerings especially relevant for where we are now in our understandings and systems of learning. Each workshop is designed to explore how we see (and might re-see) learning and invite new possibilities of practice to nourish holistic, liberated curiosity and learning for all.

Sessions can be virtual, local (Pittsburgh, PA), or as part of requested travel.

1 hour | 90 minutes | 2 hours | half-day | full day | as a series (monthly or bi-monthly)

Pricing is determined by context and the nature of the workshop/s requested.

Workshop Offerings

for schools, learning organizations, home-school communities, and those working in the edges of learning systems

a good fit for those who focus on learning in early childhood, elementary, multi-aged, or multi-generational contexts; and those who are in the midst of revision and innovation

Writing Beyond the Page

Explore ways to extend student writing experiences beyond prompt-based or genre-based writing experiences and create fresh, relevant, and engaging invitations for your group of writers to express who they are and what they want to say in the world. Rooted in a rich foundation of writing as much more than symbols on a page and an inclusive approach for holistic expressions. This workshop invites participants to design multi-modal learning experiences that nourish authentic meaning-making and connections between reading, writing, creative arts, social-emotional learning, and more.

Feelings as Expressions

Explore how to support children to see, describe, and express the wholeness of themselves, including their complex and layered feelings about anything, big or small. For groups with a solid understanding of social-emotional learning, this workshop digs deeper and invites participants to find more nuance in the potential of children’s feelings as material for learning. We’ll practice, discuss, invent, connect, and reflect together as we experiment with movement, drawing, sound-play, and other inventive expressions. Interdisciplinary, arts-based, play-focused, social-emotional learning that’s relevant, engaging, and authentically embedded to nourish children’s intrinsic desire for curiosity and joyful, whole expression.

Nourish Slow + Spacious

The #1 request I hear from educators, parents, and others working with children and youth: How can I slow down? How can I get children to slow down? How can everything slow down so we all have more space to be present with the wonder of learning? This workshop is an opportunity for participants to sink into slowness to explore its beautiful possibilities, as well as reflect on what arises inside ourselves that often keeps our learning contexts full of what’s fast and busy. We’ll look at learning design that stifles slowness, and then identify small, concrete ways we can design for more slowness and spaciousness for all learners (including ourselves). Slowness often feels like a far away and lofty goal, but there are clear, actionable, and simple shifts that can make a huge difference in creating more spaciousness for wondrous learning.

Deep Explorations of Play

The word play is used so frequently in descriptions of learning that its meaning tends to get lost or watered down. This workshop is designed for participants to dig deeply into the layered concepts and approaches of play. We’ll identify specific elements of play (e.g., flexibility, risk-taking, not-knowing) and explore ways to design for playful learning with ordinary materials and open-ended invitations. Play isn’t separate from learning. Play is learning. Play is rigor. Play is wonder. Play is breath. Play is always available and is at the heart of curiosity. This workshop weaves theory and practice in collaborative ways to encourage participants to co-create concrete, actionable ways to design for more open-ended play for all learners.

Resee School

For individuals and groups looking to create new kinds of learning experiences and spaces, and for those who are working to establish new kinds of schools. When designing something new it is quite easy to end up replicating that which you are trying to change. This happens all too often with learning “innovation,” especially when the innovation tries to re-imagine a structure or system. This workshop (which can easily become a series or on-going consultation) helps you more deeply notice where “school” exists in your body, your thoughts, your vocabulary, your memory/dream, your instincts/habits, and even (especially) in your best intentions for the new ways of school you want to create. We’ll unpack the logic systems built into the vocabulary of schools (and learning) so you can better see and make clear (congruent) decisions about each step of what you’re creating. Blend of theory and practice with a keen lens for nuanced relevant action.