Questing
Workshop:
Building
Community & Deepening
Community Connections
Friday, June 6 ~
11:00 am - 6:00 pm (lunch will be provided)
Radisson Hotel La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
(limit 10 people)
Gathering Waters Conservancy invites you to attend
the Building Community & Deepening Community Connections through
Questing Workshop on June 6 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Valley
Quest is an award-winning program that
uses treasure hunts to discover and celebrate special places and
their stories. To make a Quest, a group adopts
a site and collaboratively learns about it through field work,
research and oral history. Learning is shared by developing and
publishing the Quest, which initiates future visitors to hidden
stories and special places. This session
introduces the Questing process, and takes participants through
the process of developing a Quest by visiting a Mississippi Valley
Conservancy's property. See how this example of the Quest concept
represents a compelling approach for land trusts to engage their
community.
Instructor
Steven Glazer directs the Valley Quest program,
winner of the New England Environmental Education Alliance’s “program
of the year” award in 2005. He is the editor of Valley
Quest: 89 Treasure Hunts in the Upper Valley and Valley
Quest II: 75 More Treasure Hunts in the Upper Valley; the
co-author of Questing: a Guide to Creating Community Treasure
Hunts; and author of The Heart of Learning: Spirituality
in Education. Steven received his MA from the University of
Chicago in 1986; and has worked with Valley Quest since 1999, helping
more than 150 school and community groups study and share their
natural and cultural treasures. He serves on the faculty of Antioch
New England Graduate School (Department of Education) and Plymouth
State University (Heritage Studies); and hosts retreats for the
Center for Whole Communities in Fayston, Vermont.
Learning Objectives
A. Stressing the importance
of community building: bringing together diverse stake-holders
B. Teaching participants how to find and tell a compelling, over-arching
story that frames the importance of their property.
C. Demonstrate
the tools and procedures of the Valley Quest process; and their
potential value to the land trust community.
 Workshop outline
I. Discuss the importance of
sense of place
a) from a personal perspective
b) recent scholarship
(Last Child, etc.)
c) relevance to conservation organizations
II.
Present overview of the Quest process
a) Goals
b) Partnership model
c) Quest process
III. Model and begin to practice the process
a) Story
b) Route
c) Movement clue
d) Teaching clue
e) Treasure box
IV. Feedback from participants
Q & A
Discussion of challenges & opportunities
Registration & Fees
Registration Deadline: May 23, 2008
To register, complete registration
form and return to:
email: liz [at] gatheringwaters.org
fax: 608-663-5971
or mail: 211
S. Paterson, Suite 270 Madison, WI 53703
Class Limit: 10 participants
Workshop Fee: $100 per person.
The fee includes lunch, refreshments and related handouts.
Cancellation Policy: For cancellations
more than one week prior to the June 6 workshop, GWC will refund
the balance paid less a $30 cancellation fee. GWC provides no refund
for cancellation within one week of the workshop.
Logistics
The first part of the workshop will be held at
the Radisson Hotel La Crosse in La Crosse, WI (map)
starting at 11am. Participants will then travel by car to a Mississippi
Valley Conservancy property for the second half of the workshop.
Lunch will be provided by Gathering Waters Conservancy.
Questions? Contact
our office at 608-251-9131 or info [at] gatheringwaters.org.
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