Workshop Descriptions - 2024 ROEE Conference

  • Mentoring & Management- A Guide to Thriving Instead of Surviving

    • We all need better tools for delegation, time/task management, and how to have critical conversations with other staff and our student leaders. Make the time to become a better communicator, mentor, and delegator. Learn some practical tools and make some discoveries about yourself.

  • Getting on the Same Page About This J-O-B

    • Are you a manager and/or supervisor of multiple generations of staff? If you’re currently training and supporting any/all of the following: Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z, then this session is for you. Each of these demographics brings incredible strengths and challenges to the table. Individuals have come into the workforce/ volunteer force with a wide variety of experiences and skills. Let’s start including all the voices in our conversation.

  • Let’s Stop Riding the Wave and Start Rebuilding the Boat

    • We’re all experiencing a sea change in the world and it’s creating waves in Outdoor School. Outdoor school experiences are transformative for students & student leaders who come from privilege: housed/fed, able-bodied enough to navigate rugged terrain, fluent enough in English to follow content, comfortable in residential facilities within their gender identities… They have caring adults in their lives to help navigate stress, anxiety, fatigue. They come from cultures where sleeping with strangers at a “camp” is just one more adventure and chance to grow. We need to rethink our programs and rebuild them so they are accessible for ALL of our students and staff members.

  • Washington State Characteristics of a High-Quality Outdoor School and WA State Safety and Management Review

    • We will share the product of a collaborative effort to define the characteristics of a High Qualify Outdoor School and the iterative process for a program to participate in a continuous growth cycle.

  • Collaborating across programs to make real change

    • Friends of Outdoor School launched three collaborative communities of practice in 2020: A Staff Support Roundtable; a High School Leadership Roundtable; and a Seasonal/Program Staff Roundtable. The purpose was to help the network of ODS providers in Oregon share ideas, resources, challenges and opportunities. Join me to learn about how those communities came together, created shared purpose, identified priorities, and got some big stuff done, and have much more to do. I hope you have ideas and experiences I can learn from too!

  • Pika steal - don't they?! Techniques for developing stewardship in youth

    • This workshop will begin with nuggets of wisdom stolen from others and how these simple activities and processes help youth develop stewardship of themselves, their community, and the environment. The second half will be spent sharing ideas with one another so that we all walk away with tangible ideas to improve our programming.