Jeanette Romkema, Partner

Jeanette Romkema has been a Dialogue Education practitioner and educator since 1996.

As an educator and facilitator of learning who practices most often in a higher education environment, Jeanette is respected for her care in customizing her instructional designs to the learners' needs to create engaging and empower learning experiences. Jeanette enjoys the creative process of teaching and learning and pays special attention to the providing an energizing learning environment through the use of colour, texture, and visuals.

Her workshop designs and facilitation model the principles of inclusion, relevance, congruence and personal meaning-making. Typically, this leads to stronger personal relationships, friendships and a growing community.

With graduate and postgraduate work in the fields of education, her specialty is communicating through visual language. Jeanette's areas of greatest experience and depth include the academic, community development and voluntary sectors, in particular:

• Professional development and staff training for elementary,
  secondary, and university teachers
• HIV and AIDS education
• International development
• Emergency disaster relief
  
• Teaching through the arts

Jeanette has extensive international and cross-cultural experience, having worked and lived in numerous countries, including: Nigeria, Niger, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Senegal, China, Bangladesh, Romania, Belgium, the Netherlands, Haiti, the USA and Canada.

Presently, Jeanette lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband Peter Noteboom and two boys. Jeanette loves fabric, beads, poetry, and photography. Together with her family, she enjoys making time for camping, exploring, traveling, the arts, books, music, and games. Finding and trying out "the new/unknown" is her passion.

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