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Consider Carrie for workshops ranging from an hour to two days on strategic planning, experiential place-based learning and experiential leadership. Her primary focus is on instructor development, with recent workshops on:

• Making the Most of the First Day of Class

• Creating Community with Colleagues

• Adventure Education for the Classroom

• Experiential Leadership

• Fostering Empathy: Strange Land Experiences & Professional Development for International Education

• What the yurt? Round teaching and scholarly inquiry within a community of practice

• Artifacts and Audiences: How Sharing ‘Objects’ Across Social Worlds Shapes Learning

• Gender Equity in Education

With over 250 presentations to audiences ranging from 20-800 in size, Carrie has shared her enthusiasm for experiential education and for wilderness travel with over 10,000 people. Recent talks include:

• Bacon Grease, Bears and Bullets: Lessons Learned from Wild Encounters

• Curriculum as the Means to Work Integrated Learning (ACE_WIL Plenary Panel Presentation in Victoria, 2019)

• This is Us! A Cross Canada Paddler's Perspective on our Country (at Canoecopia in Madison, WI, 2015)

Learn from a seasoned experiential educator! Having been identified as the 2007 Association of Experiential Education's Outstanding Experiential of the Year, Carrie offers a range of 30 hour courses for educators in urban or wilderness settings. Most recently, she has taught:

• Paddles & Pedagogy: Experiential Place-based Learning (while on a sea kayak expedition)

• Curriculum Development

• Delivery of Instruction