Sense of PlaceTraining
For Educators

Recharge Your Curriculum and Yourself

This training helps you rethink your approach, refresh your creativity, and gain new tools you can apply in the classroom right away — while rekindling your own love of teaching.

Teaching today is challenging. Students are navigating a rapidly changing world and educators are tasked with inspiring students while navigating standards, assessments in a shifting educational landscape.

Students today need more than knowledge—they need relevance. They need to see themselves in the stories, landscapes, and histories they’re learning about.

This training will help you bring your curriculum to life, connect more deeply with students, and recharge your sense of purpose and passion for your work.

Who is this for?

  • K-12 Teachers

  • Graduate Students in Education Programs

  • Environmental & History Educators

  • Museum & Park Educators

  • Independent and Informal Educators

What You'll Gain:

Tools to enrich your curriculum, deepen engagement and bring your teaching ideas to life.

✔︎ Storytelling & Narrative-Based Teaching 
Learn how to weave personal, historical, and community stories into your lesson plans, making learning more relatable and memorable.

✔︎ Creative Expression as a Learning Tool
 Discover how to use place-based story, music, art, and creative writing to deepen understanding and connection.

✔︎ 21st-Century Skills Through Sense of Place Learning 
Help students think critically, collaborate meaningfully, and engage creatively with history, culture, and nature.

✔︎ Inquiry-Based Learning Strategies 
Encourage students to ask questions, investigate, and form their own conclusions through active, meaningful exploration.

✔︎ Building Confidence, Belonging, and Well-Being
 Support students in finding their voice, exploring personal connections to place and history, and cultivating a sense of belonging in the classroom and beyond.

The Journey:
How This Training Works

Through the steps on this journey, you’ll gain practical tools and a personal recharge, ensuring you teach with renewed passion, creativity, and purpose.

STEP 1:
Rekindle Your Why

As the saying goes, “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” Through creative reflection and sense of place-based activities, you’ll reconnect with your own curiosity, wonder, and love of learning.

STEP 2:
Learn by Experiencing

Through immersive, hands-on experiences — storytelling, creative writing, place-centered inquiry — you’ll experience firsthand how these methods can transform student engagement, and how they naturally align with educational goals and standards.

STEP 3:
Bring It to Life

By the end, you’ll walk away with classroom-ready techniques and lesson ideas that weave place, story, creativity, and inquiry into your teaching — helping your students learn with heart, mind, and imagination

About Me

I’m an award-winning songwriter, creative mentor, interpretive trainer, and keynote speaker. I have decades of experience helping educators, students, parks, and cultural organizations deepen engagement through my sense of place training and programs. I’m an award-winning songwriter, creative mentor, interpretive trainer, and keynote speaker.

My approach includes blending academic rigor with storytelling, creativity, and connection, offering experiences that nourish both the mind and the heart. My goal is to help you reignite your passion for teaching, enrich your curriculum, and inspire your students through finding stories of connection, place and belonging.

Ready to Recharge Your Teaching?

Let’s work together to revitalize your teaching and deepen your connection to your students, your community, and your own sense of purpose.

Whether you're looking for a creative boost or wanting to weave place-based stories into your lessons, this training will give you the tools you need to make learning more meaningful and lasting.

Prior Training Includes:

  • Approaching Walden, Walden Woods Project

  • Antioch Graduate School

  • Georgia Environmental Educators Conference

  • Massachusetts Environmental Education Societ

  • New England Environmental Education Alliance

  • Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (National Park Service)

  • Teton Science Schoo

Formats Include

  • Full Day Education Training

  • Seminars & Workshops

  • Keynotes & Conference Presentations

  • Custom Training Sessions For Schools

“It was such a nice change to try these creative exercises ourselves, to talk about "sense of place" on a more personal level, and to get away from the screen for some time.”

Participant, Approaching Walden, MA

Ready to Get Started?

Schedule a call so we can learn more about each other, discuss your priorities, and explore what might be the best fit for your training needs.
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