Inspiration
For those of you who view educational workshops as just that, “WORKshops,” read below. At the end of our Facilitator Workshop in February in Akron, IA, we passed around a piece of paper and asked everyone to jot down just one thought left in their mind from their experience at the workshop. As the paper was passed around, each person was to only read the most recent entry and build on it with their own thoughts. Here is the end result:
Just a thought…
Leopold has been an influence on conservation and his legacy should be continued.
I look forward to taking Leopold’s legacy and sharing it with other children and educators.
I want to teach in a way that will have a greater meaning and a greater impact.
I have learned so much more about Leopold and the importance of this man who came from my hometown. I want to teach what I have learned to the students so they have a better appreciation of this “hometown boy” who did good things!
Every experience we have to learn is our chance to teach the next person. This weekend has added to my “drive” to make moments “teachable moments”
Teachable moments possesses the magic of “ah-ha!”, the sparkle in the “students” eye and a glimmer of hope that we are making a difference. Being here this weekend has shown me there are people out there that are like-minded and will continue to educate others on the magic of nature.I am also inspired to use Leopold’s lessons in teachable “moments.” We need to remember we “live with the land, not on the land.” To live on something is like being a parasite where you take without giving back. We need to be one with the land, as said by a “river rat” that lived with the Mississippi River. We need to act this out and be good mentors to the people we reach and come in contact with.
It is refreshing to see people with this amount of passion for the concepts behind LEP. I really think this is a snowball getting ready to roll down a hill, picking up countless people with a renewed “land ethic” along its path.
I believe it is great that people with a variety of backgrounds come to this and how all of us can take what we learned and give that knowledge to other people. I think the whole experience was wonderful!
This is my second time doing a workshop and every time we all learn something new from each other!
Learning and sharing ideas, experiences and love of nature is good for the soul and passing all of this on is good for the future…
…A future like Aldo would have envisioned.
Yes, these workshops are educational and at times can be pretty intense. After all, a lot of material is covered in a short amount of time. But above all, these workshops serve to inspire those who attend them, as evidenced here. And really, without inspiration, how effective is an education?