Spirit of Adventure - Colin Mortlock
Colin is an internationally respected outdoor educator and adventurer who has written three books, ‘The Adventure Alternative’, ‘Beyond Adventure’ and his latest ‘The Spirit of Adventure’. All three are well worth the read. His latest book can be obtained through the website, www.soadventure.org

Colin’s presentation is inspirational. He speaks of adventure not adventurous activities and how young people need to be challenged. Colin reminds participants that we never stop learning. Life is learning and that the education and schooling was only the formal bit. We never stop learning.

There are four parts to learning: Knowledge, Skills, Attitude – being as positive as you can as this effects everyone, Concepts.

Within the new book, Colin addresses three key questions that he believes ought to be concerns of every individual: Who am I? Where am I going? How do I get there?Colin talks about how people and nations need to rediscover how to live by the 'virtues' outlined in his book.

Colin has several Schools in the UK signed up to addressing their School curriculum and ethos around 'the virtues'.

Join us in a public forum addressed by Colin on the benefits of being adventurous, and lessons learned from challenge and discovery.

Colin will be joined by Norm Hunter, educator and founding co-Principal of Hillbrook Anglican School. Norm has a profound belief in the values to be learnt from the outdoors, & strong ideas on how Outdoor Education offers important experiences that prepare young people for the difficult world of the 21st century

Book Signing: Colin Mortlock Spirit of Adventure: towards a better world

Where: QUT (Kelvin Grove Campus)
When: June 7, 3.30pm - 6.30pm
Tickets: $10.00 (incl. GST) per person.

For further information, please contact QORF:
Ph: 07 3369 9455
Email: info@qorf.org.au

 

OEAQ Risk Management Workshop

One of the most powerful ways of training leaders to respond to critical incidents is via scenarios. Clare Dallat and Deb Ajango are both experts in Risk Management in the outdoors and have agreed to present a series of one-day workshops around Australia during the first two weeks of April 2010.

 

Clare has been Director of Risk Management at the Outdoor Education Group (OEG) since 2002. Clare regularly presents at conferences in Australia and internationally on Risk Management in the outdoors. She facilitates critical incident scenario training for her colleagues at OEG on a regular basis.

 

Deb Ajango is the American author of the excellent Lessons Learned books, which provide in-depth analysis of critical incident cases, and is the proprietor of SafetyEd, an organization that provides outdoor Risk Management training and resources in the U.S.

 

The proposed format for the workshop days will be a morning of risk management theory which will include:

· What is risk?

· Risk consciousness

· Communicating risk

· Compliance with regulatory requirements

 

The afternoon will consist of a facilitated critical incident scenario. Only one workshop will be held in Queensland and places are limited. As a side to this it is proposed that participants may wish to catch up both prior and post the formal workshop to discuss ideas and develop strategies regarding their risk management operations. This process will be more closely discussed once all the registrations are received.

 

Details

Date: Friday 9th April 2010 - 9.30am to 5.00pm
Cost: OEAQ / QORF Members $275 inc gst; Non members $385 inc gst

Venue: Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane

Registration: For a registration form please email here or call 07 5484 5433.

OEAQ AGM

Sunday December 7, 4pm at Maroon OEC.

Please come to the AGM for a BBQ evening meal provided by the association as we get ready for this years FOOLs Forum.
Contact MOEC on 5463 633 to organise accomodation for the evening and to book for the Forum. AGM nomination forms are available from the website
Please RSVP so that we have an idea of numbers coming for the AGM.

2008 FOOLs Forum

The Facilitators of Outdoor Learning (FOOL’s) Forum is an opportunity to share strategies relating to facilitating outdoor learning. Whether your teaching focus is pers onal development or outdoor pursuits the forum sessions will be an opportunity for you to share and learn. In keeping with an experiential app roach and to minimise the pressure on presenters, there will be no proceedings or handouts.

The presenters are not being paid, they will be as interested in learning different strategies as the participants. Where appropriate the sessions will be conducted by a FOOL at an outdoor learning site (i.e. at a cliff face, high ropes course, on a dam). The sessions will not be a presentation by one person, they will be a series of tasks or questions geared to help participants to talk and share their approaches to issues such as planning, teaching, facilitation, risk management ,rescues and leader competencies.

To register for the Forum and find out more download the flyer here.

Roger Greenaway Workshop - Active Reviewing

Venue: Edmund Park 213 Mulgowie Rd Thornton Qld.

Time and Date: November 29, 9am - November 30, 3pm.

Cost: Members $ 210
Non Members $250

A practical workshop for developing people's (active) reviewing toolkit. Most methods include 'things' (preferably natural - or handy like ropes), movement and creativity as well as reflection. Why this eccentric approach to reviewing? It's about including and engaging everyone in reflection on experience and making reviewing at least as involving and memorable as the activity being reviewed - it is partly about developing an approach to reviewing that is holistic and includes all learning styles.

Some of the concepts covered in Roger’s presentations include;

TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR THE DESIGN, FACILITATION AND FOLLOW-UP OF YOUR OUTDOOR PROGRAMMES:

• Learning Outdoors: appreciating and harnessing what is special about learning outdoors
  
• Learning from Experience: why it matters and how this affects future learning
  
• Making 'stories' from outdoor experiences: the programme story, the group story and individual stories
  
• Seamless Reviewing: integrating reviewing into activities
  
• Making Reviewing an Adventure: reviewing for impact
  
• Independent Reviewing: developing learners' own reviewing abilities
  
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