Teachers’ Workshop

Exploring a Sense of Place is a program that gives people an opportunity to participate in constructive ways in response to our current Earth challenges, while both enriching their own lives and the life of their community. Our workshops and our guidebook are designed to extend our course so that its content is available to many more people, giving them knowledge, experiences and skills in order to relate authentically in what has become a threatened, out-of-balance world. Program Director Karen Harwell and co-Director Joanna Reynolds co-authored the guidebook that will serve as the training manual for our Teachers’ Workshop.

By providing tools, support, and inspiration, this workshop will enable a diverse group of proactive teachers to create their own versions of our Exploring a Sense of Place course in their own bioregions. They will learn strategies for teaching nature awareness through a series of experiences with themes as fine-tuned as the relationship between our food and our place and as broad as our place in the cosmos. Working with the Exploring a Sense of Place guidebook, they will be able to develop plans for their own local expressions and exchange ideas on how to implement these plans.

Expansion of this program will create a wider circle of engaged citizens and teachers who contribute to the environmental health of our community and in turn entice and inspire others to protect the places where they live and treasure. www.exploringsenseofplace.org

Graduate level semester units may be earned through University of San Diego. Contact Allan Varni at allan@usdcourses.org, or 650-948-6545 for details and requirements.

When: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Where: Conexions Center, 1023 Corporation Way, Palo Alto
Cost: $30 (includes the guidebook Exploring a Sense of Place!)
RSVP: Please make reservations and payment by contacting
Karen Harwell at (650) 938-9300 ex. 15 or kharwell@exploringsenseofplace.org.