Pre and Post Conference Workshops give attendees a one-stop shop for industry training and certification renewals. These workshops, held before and after the conference, add to the many perks of attending the conference.
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Date & Time:
Includes live discussions, activities & recorded content.
Location: ONLINE
Cost: $175.00
As a professional facilitator hanging from the course, floating on the river or sitting around the campfire, you have likely encountered a wide range of participant personalities and discussion items. Some of which may have turned over hot coals you did not expect were burning or that caught you off guard despite your supreme facilitator debrief skills that usually blow everyone's mind. The truth is, these unplanned moments when burning topics surface carry rich opportunities for cultivating self-awareness, fortifying wellbeing and building resilience.
Join us to expand your toolkit by catching segways to wellness, rolling with resilience and navigating channels of conversations according to your goals, environment and comfort level. Try on a clinical facilitator's lens of Challenge by Choice, intentional activity selection and managing risk. In addition to discussing and experiencing activities with mental health-inclusive debriefs, you will have the opportunity to apply research explaining resilience, wellness and experiential therapy. A workshop portion of the training will provide scaffolding for individualized program design and development.
Key Themes:
Trauma-sensitive
Challenge by Choice
Resilience
Wellbeing
Risk Management
Pre-Requisites: None
Workshop Coordinator(s): Dr. Julie Laser-Maira [julieannelaser@gmail.com]
Michael Hooten [michaelghooten@gmail.com]
Risk Management for Outdoor Programs
Dates & Times for Live Sessions:
There will be viewing of pre-recorded video sessions, reading, online discussion group and online experiential activity requirements between each of the sessions. You can view the entire course description here.
Location: ONLINE
Cost: $259.00
The Risk Management for Outdoor Programs training is a course that introduces participants to best practices in managing risks in experiential, outdoor, adventure, service learning and travel-based programs.
The course covers principles of risk management, safety standards in outdoor and related programs, and current research related to accident prevention and human factors in incident causation. Participants are provided opportunities to compare their systems and practices with industry standards.
The training format is highly interactive. Numerous case studies are included. Small group discussions are conducted throughout the courses. Multiple role-playing sessions and scenario-based exercises are featured. The course includes written materials, lecture presentation, a wide variety of visual aids, consistent attendee active participation, and opportunities for participants to analyze and discuss their own risk management systems and procedures with respect to those of others and examples presented.
Course Format
The course is composed of four live video-conference sessions and three independent work periods:
These occur the weeks of October 25-31, November 1-7, and November 8-14, 2020.
Independent work is anticipated to take a minimum of 7-12 hours per week.
SYLLABUS
Live Session 1 Welcome, Orientation, Introductory Concepts in Risk Management | Live Session 2 Facilitated Discussion Participant Presentations: Self-Evaluation of Risk Management in Risk Management Domains | Live Session 3 Facilitated Discussion Participant Presentations: Self-Evaluation of Risk Management with Risk Management Instruments | Live Session 4 Facilitated Discussion Participant Presentation: Strategic Improvement Plan for Your Organization Conclusion & Certificates |
Independent Work 1 General Concepts in Risk Management
Risk Domains
| Independent Work 2 Risk Management Instruments
| Independent Work 3 Synthesis & Application Risk Management Plan Development Strategic Improvement Plan for Your Organization Final Exam |
Textbook
The course textbook is Risk Management for Outdoor Programs: A Guide to Safety in Outdoor Education, Recreation and Adventure (viristar.com/book). This 208-page text is provided to each student in electronic format.
Certification
Participants take short quizzes throughout the course and a final written exam. Individuals who fully participate in learning activities and successfully complete the final exam receive a certificate from Viristar valid for three years.
Pre-Requisites: None
Workshop Coordinator(s): Jeff Baierlein [jeff@viristar.com]
www.viristar.com
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Adult Mental Health First Aid Workshop and Certification
Date & Time: October 24 & 25| 3 PM - 5 PM EST
Location: ONLINE
Cost: $40.00
Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. The agenda for Mental Health First Aid course includes learning the risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. Topics covered include depression and mood disorders; anxiety disorders; trauma; psychosis; and substance use disorders. Mental Health First Aid teaches about recovery and resiliency â?' the belief that individuals experiencing these challenges can and do get better and use their strengths to stay well. This National organization provides a standardized curriculum for veracity of the information yet allows leeway for experiential education.
Pre-Requisites: None
Workshop Coordinator(s): Carol Smith [csmith@elon.edu]
Evan Small [esmall@elon.edu]
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How to Register for Pre/Post Conference Workshops
NOTE: You do not need to register for the entire conference to participate in any pre/post conference workshops.
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