WORKSHOP: Positively Impacting School Climate through Experiential Anti-bullying and Diversity Programming

The Browne Center’s Anti-Bullying and Diversity/Inclusion programs are positively impacting climates in local schools. With both models, we create a customized, experiential learning approach where participants feels valued, safe, and empowered while building classroom communities and behavioral norms.  Join us to sample activities and an abbreviated flow from these unique programs. Friday, April 20, 2012, … Read more

WORKSHOP: Adventure & Experiential Facilitation: Tools for Today’s Practitioner Working with Children, Youth and Families

This 6.5-hour workshop will familiarize participants with an adventure–based model of facilitation and demonstrate its use in actively engaging children, youth and their families around a variety of therapeutic issues. This workshop will be valuable for professionals who work with youth who are looking for hands-on experience and modeling of how to incorporate adventure activities … Read more

WORKSHOP: Inspire, Engage, and Motivate: Experiential, Brain Friendly Approaches to Teaching and Group Facilitation

Experiential approaches to teaching can enhance your ability to motivate students, inspire a sense of discovery, instill a desire to learn and create a positive and supportive learning community. This workshop offers a variety of active learning approaches that engage students emotionally, socially, physically and intellectually. These brain-friendly approaches will help you facilitate meaningful dialogue … Read more

WORKSHOP: 101 experiential techniques for counselors and therapists

The purpose of this workshop is to offer innovative methods of enriching the therapeutic and educational process through the use of experiential and active treatment techniques. Rather than just focusing on the “talking the talk” part of therapy and teaching, this workshop will also provide applied methods of “walking the talk” to use in individual … Read more

The Browne Center partners with UNH’s Cooperative Extension

University of New Hampshire’s Cooperative Extension “Courage to Care’’program was developed to fight bullying and peer pressure in middle schools. The program had input from the Browne Center, which developed outdoor adventure activities to emphasize teamwork and problem-solving skills. The pilot curriculum has been helped by a federal grant aimed at improving rural health and … Read more