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Outdoor Educators’ Association of Queensland
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:
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Learning Outdoors: appreciating and harnessing what is special about learning outdoors
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Learning from Experience: why it matters and how this affects future learning
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Making 'stories' from outdoor experiences: the programme story, the group story and individual stories
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Seamless Reviewing: integrating reviewing into activities
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Making Reviewing an Adventure: reviewing for impact
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Independent Reviewing: developing learners' own reviewing abilities
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Design Templates for high impact outdoor programmes (with a variety of experiences and story lines)
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Creating Souvenirs for all learning styles and for retelling and developing significant stories
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After Effects: exploring a range of follow-up strategies from 'quick and easy' to more committing strategies.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER AND FACILITATOR
Roger Greenaway has earned a world-wide reputation for providing practical training in facilitating lively and effective reviews. OEAQ secretary Mark Munnings attended a workshop session in the UK that Roger facilitated. Mark reports that a group of 100 delegates were able to have their ideas heard and concepts refined through a very interactive process that Roger used with the group. Roger has also provided staff training for a wide range of outdoor organisations in the UK (his home country) and throughout Europe and Asia. He has a background in teaching and training and was awarded a doctorate in 1995 for a study of the 'powerful learning experiences' of managers taking part in outdoor programmes. Roger has also written handbooks for outdoor educators and chapters for European and American books about experiential learning. His own books are out of print, but his extensive website at http://reviewing.co.uk is a free resource that is recommended browsing as preparation and follow-up for this event - especially the articles section.
LIMITED WORKSHOP PLACES
Roger prefers to work with smaller groups given the nature of his content and this event will be open to only 20 participants. The Two day workshop includes dormitory style accomodation at Edmund Park and all meals during the workshop. Register for the Workshop by completing the registration form below.
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.
Past Events
The 3R’s
Risk, Relationships and Reconnection
2008 OEAQ State Conference
Over 30 delegates joined in on the pre-conference trip to North Keppel Island Environmental Education Centre. Our hosts Mick and Sandy did a wonderful job of explaining the programmes at North Keppel and took us on a wonderful introductory snorkel. The conference proper kicked off on Thursday night a great tale of expeditioning in the arctic circle with John Hoelsher, a Yeppoon local who has circumnavigated Greenland by sea kayak and dog sled. John left us all feeling inspired to keep venturing on our own expeditions and to push the boundaries of what is comfortable. He also highlighted the massive impact that climate change is having in the North and South polar regions. A full review of the conference proceedings can be found in the next edition of Horizons.
The conference keynote speakers Clare Dallat and Ian Boyle did a fantastic job of engaging our delegates and inspiring them to look carefully at their own practice and that of their workplace. To have another look at their presentation please follow the links below to the Slideshare Outdoor Education page.
Keynote Speakers
Ian Boyle (Glengarry College) shared his 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers, easily the most popular presentation shared at last year’s national conference. Ian challenged delegates to find language that we can teach our young people to help them explain and make sense of the life lessons they are experiencing and learning. He provided practitoners with a vast array of tools that he has tested with students to help them integrate the Seven Habits into their daily lives. Ian's use of video footage in capturing some of the magic facilitation moments with his students helped to bring a real relevance to his presentation.
Clare Dallat (OEG) presented some of the work that she has been researching about helping outdoor educators better communicate the goals of their programmes, and why the risks they take are worth taking. Clare did a wonderful job in highlighting some of the lessons learned from recent tragic outdoor events. She gave many of the delegates a useful bag of ideas to take away and apply in their own risk communication contexts.
Both of these keynote speakers were willing to take the time to have a chat with delegates outside of the presentation time slots. There were some wonderful interaction between our keynotes and other presenters at the conference during workshop sessions and meal times.
A shared beach-side campfire on Friday night gave delegates a perfect opportunity to share some campfire activities and games.The conference concluded with James McIntosh the OEAQ President challenging delegates to take the inspiration and momentum from the conference back into their personal and work lives. People were given the opportunity to set themselves some short to long term goals related to the conference, a number of delegates shared these personal goals with the group.
For a more detailed look at the conference programme visit the conference website
. An in depth review of conference workshops will be published in the next edition of Horizons.Check out some of the conference photos on the slideshare website below.
Past Events
SE Qld Facilitators Of Outdoor Learning Forum
When:
December 10 & 11 2007
Where:
Garapine Outdoor Education Centre, Traveston. Queensland
The FOOLs Forum was a wonderful event that provided the 35 attendees with a wonderful opportunity to share strategies relating to facilitating outdoor learning. The forum sessions included high ropes course rescue, archery, games/initiatives, flying fox, river canoe trip, rock climbing at Brooyar, making poverty history and an extended hackey sac workshop. The hosts of the forum Murray, Nat and the Garapine team, did a magnificent job of keeping the sessions moving along and ensuring everyone was well fed and watered. The centre is a wonderful camp facility and the hospitality is second to none.
Participants included teachers, instructors, Cert 4 TAFE graduates from schools, outdoor and recreation centres. Thanks to all the participants for their sharing and involvement.
2007 SEQ FOOLS forum presentation
Giving a hand up the Hill: How Outdoor Education can contribute to making poverty history
(powerpoint)
Over breakfast on the Tuesday of FOOLs, Brett Stanford presented some thoughts on the contributions Outdoor Education can make in the formation of social justice values and awareness in our students. The presentation focused on global poverty issues by mention of possible solutions such as: the UN Millennium Development Goals and Jeffrey Sachs's book
"The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time". Domestic issues of poverty were raised in a discussion of the book "
Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough"
by Clive Hamilton of the Australia Institute.
An attempt was then made to connect these issues to our Outdoor Education practice through a group brainstorm on how we can encourage reflection in our programs.
Far North Queensland Fools Forum
December 7 - 9, 2007
Tinaroo Active Recreation Centre
Over 45 North Queenslanders decended upon Tinaroo for the FOOLs Forum. It was a good mix of people from Outdoor and Environmental Education teachers, TAFE teachers and students, Staff from the Northern Outlook, local recreation centre instructors and faciliators all gathering to share their ideas on thoughts on a range of Outdoor Education topics.
There was a dedicated website that was established to help keep everyone informed about the forum at Tinaroo.
Please check it out to get a better idea of what was on the programme at Tinaroo this year.
15th National Outdoor Education Conference
September 20-23, 2007 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
 The OEAQ proudly supported the 15th National Outdoor Education Conference held from the 20th to the 23rd of September, 2007. It proved to be a wonderful opportunity to make better connections with Outdoor Educators around the country and find out what innovative programmes and research have been happening in Outdoor Education nationally and internationally.
The conference was hosted by the VOEA on behalf of Outdoor Education Australia. Over 20 Outdoor Educators' from Queensland represented our state at the national conference and a number of them including James McIntosh, Andrew Devenish, Mark Munnings and Damien Boicos presented profiles of their programmes during the conference programme.
 Risk Management and Outdoor Education:
From Theory to Practice
Preston Cline, founding President of Adventure Management (USA) presented a day for the OEAQ, it’s members and friends on Risk in the Outdoors.
This was a special Queensland workshop for both Outdoor Education Leaders and Coordinators.
For Outdoor Leaders the training helped participants identify sustainable risk management habits both in themselves and in their co-instructors.
They were encouraged to become self-correcting teams that trap, mitigate and avoid errors before they escalate into crisis.
For Outdoor Program Coordinators the workshop helped these staff create training and management processes that enabled staff to trap, avoid or mitigate the errors that occur during program.
Date and Time: 12 October 2007, 8:30am
Venue: Hillbrook Anglican School,
Enoggera. Brisbane
Cost: $120 for OEAQ Members and $150 for non members (includes morning
tea & lunch)
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