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Michael Grinder and Associates in the Classroom: ENVoY Programs

Michael Grinder and Associates (MGA) provides training in non-verbal communication, group dynamics, influence skills and permission for school districts, corporations and individuals. MGA offers training for education, public seminars and corporate in-house settings.All of MGA’s programs offer systemic strategies that are easy to learn and quick to employ and preserve relationships. MGA’s classroom management programs and trainings include:

After years of experience as a teacher, Michael Grinder, MA, has been speaking at conferences and conducting seminars on his areas of expertise across the world. He has for years been seen as America’s educator of educators and he is an expert on learning. Research shows MGA’s work transforms the levels of teaching and learning with schools and school districts. Research link

As a leading source of non-verbal communication skills, MGA is committed to reversing the trend of over-training and under-implementing. Michael Grinder shows educators how to use influence rather than power to manage the classroom.

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Michael Grinder is the pioneer in teaching others how to perceive non- verbal communication in a group setting. In addition, to being the founder of the ENVoY Programs, he is National Director of NLP in Education. He was personally trained by two well-known experts in the field of communication: Carl Rogers, the wellspring of rapport and relationships, and Michael’s brother Dr. John Grinder, co-founder of Neuro Linguistic Programming.

What is the ENVoY program?

Power to Influence
ENVoY is a vehicle to shift educators from seeing themselves as bastions of Power to instruments of Influence.

Professional strength
This program, when used by cadres of instructors within a school, brings out the professional strengths of all the members involved.

Wealth in our classrooms!
We need to elevate ourselves from within. . . we need systems which enable us to profit from the wealth of abilities that lie in insular classrooms.

Sharing our collective wisdom
It is only through sharing and supporting processes that the collective wisdom of the staff emerges.

Who is it for?

Individual Schools
The ENVoY program teaches:
  • what is an effective manager in the individual classroom
  • what is the most effective way to change the culture of a school

Staff Development
Research shows that when school districts have a common focus for their teachers’ professional development, the reinforcement of that focus encourages the teachers to create new habits.

 

The ENVoY Trilogy:

ENVoY: Your Personal Guide to Classroom Success and A Healthy Classroom are available from our bookstore. Click here.

The ENVoY workshops descriptions of the ENVoY Trilogy are listed below and are available for practicum credit through Chapman University. Call MGA for details. 1-360-687-3238

"Teachers come away from ENVoY trainings with powerful nonverbal strategies and proven methods for psitive changes in their classroom. These strategies enable teachers to spend more time teaching, and less time managing." —Rachel Babbs, ENVoY Coach and Trainer

"ENVoY has helped all the teachers at Windsor Middle School to maximize instructional
time and to bring out the best in our students."
— Loren Barker  WMS Principal

 

Who is the the program for?

Teachers at all levels The classroom can be viewed with educational binoculars. The primary tube focuses on curriculum. ENVoY is the management tube which supports the learning. The book is useful whether you are teaching in K-12 or adult education. Parents The principles of non verbal management can help parents and anyone who works with children to maintain positive relationships with young people while respectfully adhering to high standards for behavior.

This series is based on Michael’s best-selling books for educators. Widely used in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Asia and Latin America.

ENVoY workshops and seminars for school districts and individual schools and teachers in:

What is Nonverbal Classroom Management?
The nonverbal communication skills offered in this training will positively influence the single most
powerful leverage point in education: the teacher-student relationship. Teachers who systematically
utilize the full range of nonverbal management skills are able to reinforce consistent and fair parameters
while preserving their relationships with each student, regardless of unique learning styles or cultural backgrounds.

One teacher who has been through the training recently summarized this point:
"Before the students care what you know, they need to know that you care."

Expected outcomes include fewer disciplinary incidents, improved student attendance,
higher student grades, higher staff morale, and a lower level of staff burn-out.

Topics of Study are:
The four times teachers most often use management techniques

  1. Why nonverbal messages are more effective in classroom management than verbal messages
  2. Recognizing and responding to the various learning styles of students
  3. Disciplining for student needs rather than for teacher needs
  4. Establishing and preserving relationships of influence

Summary of Classes

ENVoY: Preserving relationships while gaining compliance in the classroom

ENVoY, the name given to the system of nonverbal techniques presented in this training,
will improve classroom climate, enhance student productivity, and decrease the level of staff burnout.

The nonverbal communication skills offered in this training will positively influence the single most powerful leverage point in education: the teacher-student relationship. Teachers who systematically utilize the full range of nonverbal management skills are able to reinforce consistent and fair parameters while preserving their relationships with each student, regardless of unique learning styles or cultural backgrounds.

ENVoY is a vehicle to shift educators from seeing themselves as bastions of Power to instruments of Influence. Professional strength This program, when used by cadres of instructors within a school, brings out the professional strengths of all the members involved. Wealth in our classrooms! We need to elevate ourselves from within. . . we need systems which enable us to profit from the wealth of abilities that lie in insular classrooms. Sharing our collective wisdom It is only through sharing and supporting processes that the collective wisdom of the staff emerges.

Days of Training: 2-5

Units of Credit: 1-2

Chapman University Practicum credit available.

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A Cat in the Doghouse: Charisma—Establishing and understanding classroom relationships

Learn to use your power of influence in your classroom!

Course Objectives—This course will give you a basic understanding of behavioral styles from high accommodators (i.e., dogs) to low accommodators (i.e., cats). Anyone who has ever owned a cat and a dog instinctively knows the differences between their personalities. This animal analogy is applied to people so we understand why cats are so difficult to work with. And yet their loyalty, once gained, is often greater than a dog is. This program centers on how a leader has to form relationships in order to operate with influence instead of power.

This program provides specific strategies for:
• Reflecting on your own cat and dog tendencies
• Recognizing cat and dog-ness in others
• Increasing one’s flexibility to be genuine with dogs and intrigue the cats.
• Running meetings more effectively
• Increasing one’s tolerance of the competitive nature of the cat and utilizing the team spirit of the dog.

Prerequisite and audience—No previous experience is necessary. While the program is open to anyone, it is intended for teachers who work with adolescents, kinesthetic-oriented students, at-risk pupils and talented/gifted learners.

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A Healthy Classroom—Group dynamics in the classroom

This course is your chance to enhance your professional development, make a difference and take advantage of a great opportunity — participants receive credit for practicum hours at the same rate as contact hours! (5 meetings — 6 semester credits = 9 quarter hours.)

MGA has been training teachers for years in the innovative teaching approach of ENVoY. By using ENVoY, leading-edge teachers like you have changed the way we educate children today. A Healthy Classroom, is the next step. This new program takes the science of ENVoY to the art of total classroom management.

Course objectives — This course will give you concrete ways to use group dynamics to benefit everybody in your classroom — especially you! It provides specific strategies for

  • accelerating the formation of the class as a group
  • recognizing and utilizing the leaders in the classroom
  • coping with the seasons of the school year
  • managing disruptive students

A Healthy Classroom is an intensive classroom management program, with easy-to-use templates for understanding the intricacies of group dynamics in the classroom.

Days of Training: TBD

Units of Credit: TBD

Chapman University Practicum credit available

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Michael Grinder and Associates is committed to bringing the most current, cutting-edge information to the educational community. We also offer specific educational classes and products  for Trainers and Administrators.

  1. Train The Trainer For ENVoY
  2. Not To Get Shot—Program for Administrators

Plus we offer Green Chair Coaching.

It is a powerful process developed by Michael Grinder to give direct and concentrated feedback for individual teachers and schools to increase their effectiveness in classroom management using influence, not power. During the process the coach observes processes and interactions within the classroom and provides with non-judgmental sensory specific feedback. Call 360-687-3238 to learn more about Green Chair Coaching.