Empowering Teens Through Transformative Workshops

At Peers Not Fears, our workshops are designed to ignite the leadership potential within every teen. Whether you're an educator, parent, or youth advocate, you'll find dynamic, interactive sessions that foster confidence, resilience, and authentic leadership skills. Led by Lorraine Connell, these workshops blend experiential learning with practical strategies, ensuring participants leave equipped to make a meaningful impact.

Northeast Association of Experiential Education

The Leadership Lab

Peers Not Fears was honored to present a dynamic Three-Hour workshop at the Northeast Association for Experiential Education Conference, designed to support leaders in Experiential Education in developing leadership skills and programs for their organizations.

New Hampshire School Adminstrators Assoc

Innovations in Learning Conference

Peers Not Fears was honored to present two workshops at the Innovations in Learning Conference. The Youth Ambassadors for Connors Climb shared their experiences in a panel discussion. Peer Leaders with the Peer Impact Program from The Founders Academy facilitated some leadership activities with participants to showcase their leadership and how the Peer Impact Program could work at their schools.

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NHNEA

Breaking Barriers: Building connections with ourselves and our students

Maximizing Efficiency and Creativity with ChatGPT

Peers Not Fears was honored to present two dynamic 90-minute workshops at the NEA-NH Professional Development Conference, designed to support educators in developing critical skills for today’s evolving classroom environment.

TILTON YOUNG WOMEN'S+ PROGRAM

Connecting Your Goals and Values

Setting Goals are important to moving forward as an individual, but also as a leader. In this conference we presented twice on the values of goals.

KINGSWOOD HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY

Confidence and Communication Leadership

Our goal has been to work with high school students in the National Honor Society (NHS) to engage in activities that empower them and provide them with some foundational skills to develop into strong leaders.

NH Nonprofit Conference & Expo

Understanding Burnout and Impacts on Your Leadership

Small-group breakout discussions and full-group engagement exploring burnout and the impact it has on your leadership. Working in non-profits can feel like a 24-7 job. Tackling burnout begins with boundaries. Reevaluating boundaries is only sometimes a top priority, and it's key to thriving in your life every day.

NH NEA FALL 2022 CONFERENCE

Building Empathy and Courage

Moving Through Burnout

Shared 90 min of Professional Development as an introduction to the Ingredients of Being Human.

Co-facilitated with Karen Pambiachi, ACC the program You Too, Feelings of Burnout is everywhere.

LACONIA & HILLSBOROUGH DEERING PARA EDUCATORS TRAINING

Confidence and Teamwork Leadership

Paraeducators are often working with a student population that comes with labels, even our paras feel like they are labeled by other members of their community. These labels prevent the community from feeling like they are on the same page and working toward the same goals. Our goal was to talk about labels in a safe place, to challenge our own labels, which can be good and bad, and to build empathy and understanding of how labels impact everyone involved.

NEW ENGLAND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE

November 2021

Two former students, Marisa Dobbins and Avery Forrestall joined me for the NEFDC conference. We were able to talk about student voices and the importance of giving students opportunities. While the conference was directed toward college faculty, the material we presented was appropriate for all educators. Through this conference, I learned that several colleges are implementing an approach that uses students as consultants. I am eager to embed this into my own practices while creating opportunities to share it with other educational institutions that I am asked to work with on developing student leadership.