This workshop is not about Training from the BACK of the Room.
It is Training from the BACK of the Room.
"Powerful strategies that can be put into action tomorrow"
— Janey Bustillos, Project Manager, FUSD Early Learning
Two days that will change every training you ever run again
The TBR Practitioner Workshop is a 2-day, brain-based learning experience for anyone who teaches, trains, facilitates, or presents — in any setting, on any topic.
Every minute of both days is designed and delivered using the same TBR principles you'll be learning. Which means you won't just understand the framework intellectually — you'll have lived it. You'll know exactly what it feels like to be in a room where the learning is active, the energy is high, and the time flies. And you'll walk out knowing how to create that experience for your own participants.
That's not an accident. It's the point.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Explore six powerful neuroscience principles that explain how humans actually learn — and why most training ignores them
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Experience and collect a large toolkit of interactive instructional strategies you can adapt to any topic and any audience
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Learn to use the 4Cs Map — a four-step instructional design and delivery model that works for a 20-minute staff meeting or a full-day workshop
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Create a complete training plan built around your own existing content
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Walk away with a workbook documenting everything you collected across both days
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Earn an official certificate of completion and digital badge to show off what you accomplished.
The 4Cs Map
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Connections
Before new content is introduced, learners connect it to what they already know. The brain cannot encode new information in isolation — it needs an anchor. This stage eliminates the blank stare and replaces it with genuine curiosity.
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Concepts
Content is delivered in short, focused segments aligned to the brain's natural attention window. No more 90-minute lectures. Information is chunked, varied, and deliberately paced so the brain can keep up.
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Concrete Practice
Learners apply, create, discuss, or teach the content before leaving the session. This is where retention actually happens — not in the listening, but in the doing.
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Conclusions
Learners summarize and personalize their own takeaways. This final stage cements long-term retention by asking each person to make meaning in their own words — which is the only kind of meaning that sticks.
Who It's For
K-12 teachers
Instructional coaches and TSAs
District administrators and PD Directors
Higher education faculty
Clinical and behavioral health professionals
HR professionals, speakers, and consultants
This isn't a niche education trend. It's a global movement.
Sharon Bowman's Training from the BACK of the Room framework has been adopted by Fortune 500 L&D departments, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and universities worldwide. Thousands of practitioners have staked their professional reputations on it.
What makes Dení distinctive is that she is one of the very few certified TBR facilitators bringing this framework specifically to K-12 educators and school districts in California.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY
The time flies by as I learned so many valuable and practical strategies for teaching adults. I will definitely use these every time I present professional learning or a workshop.
— Suzanne Orr, Early Learning Support Specialist, Fresno Unified
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY
I learned more in the last two days than I have learned in the last two years. I now have skills and tools I can immediately put into practice — not just in workshops, but in daily training interactions.
— Delylah Macdonald, Senior HR Specialist, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY
..gave lots of new, fresh ideas and time to practice to be able to hit the ground running in trainings next week. Allowed me to reinvent the same stuff into a different presentation.
— Lisa Shuldberg, IOP Lead Therapist, SDCC
What's Included
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Two full days of in-person facilitation by Dení (9am – 4pm)
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Participant workbook
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Personalized training plan built around your own content
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Certificate of completion
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Digital badge — shareable on LinkedIn and social media
Investment
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Early Bird · $1,195
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Regular · $1,295
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Group of 3+ · $1,095
Contact Dení for larger group arrangements