Creative Facilitations

Providing one-on-one consultation, 500 person facilitation and everything in between

Contact:
Stephanie Pollack
stephanie@creativefacilitations.net
+1.443.452.7095

 

Experiential Education

Teambuilding and Staff Retreats

Program Development

Intercultural Communication

Arts-based Training


15 years of international experience with:

  • Universities
  • Non-profits
  • Museums
  • Study abroad
  • Summer camps
  • Schools
  • Corporations

Experiential Education (top)

  • Develop and facilitate activity-filled programs through the cycle:
    • concrete experience
    • observation and reflection 
    • forming abstract concepts
    • testing in new situations
  • Personal support for trainers / professors / teachers who want to turn
    dull lectures into engaging experiences which increase learning
  • Interactive, engaging fun-while-learning sessions provide
    structure for intentional spontaneity

 

Teambuilding and Staff Retreats (top)

  • Custom designed sessions increase personal familiarity
    and create positive feelings amongst group members
  • Set goals while having fun
  • Sessions from one hour to five days, group sizes 4 to 500

 

Program Development (top)

  • Create new educational programs, from concept through execution to evaluation
    • Leadership
    • Mentoring
    • Service learning
    • Travel: international and domestic
    • Faculty development and staff training
  • Revitalize an already existing program to make it extraordinary
    • advising
    • trouble shooting
    • curriculum development / enhancement
    • manual writing


Intercultural Communication (top)

  • Workshops to increase understanding when working
    across cultures, including:
    • observation and awareness building
    • verbal and non-verbal communication
    • cultural issues such as power, time, space, worldview, leadership

 

Arts-based Training (top)

  • Creative use of the arts as a training tool (using art with non artists)
    • theatre games (including Theatre of the Oppressed)
    • visual art
    • writing
  • Train the trainer

Current and past clients include:

  • Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
  • Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. (The Scholar Ship)
  • Colorado State University
  • International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership
  • Bard College
  • Coalition for the Homeless
  • San Diego Maritime Museum
  • Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe
  • Boston University Tanglewood Institute
  • Institute of American Indian Arts
  • Interlocken Center for Experiential Learning

 

Stephanie Pollack, M.A., founder of Creative Facilitations, is an interculturally
and artistically focused experiential educator and trainer. For 15 years she has
developed and led innovative trainings and educational programs with ages 7 to 77
around the globe; she has traveled extensively in 6 continents and has lived in
Sydney, Chiang Mai and Katmandu. Stephanie combines intercultural competence,
experiential theory and practice expertise, and leadership/management education
with an artistic flair.