Registration is now open for the 2/25-2/27/25 Winter Watershed Professionals Institute! Please be sure to register for lodging (if needed), meals, and sessions.
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Center leaders and key staff are invited to discuss the future of the Alliance for Watershed Education and the implementation of our new Strategic Priorities.
Center leaders and key staff are invited to discuss the future of the Alliance for Watershed Education and the implementation of our new Strategic Priorities.
Nature is healing. Breathe, relax, and discover the calming effects of the forest. Take a short walk, learn some science behind the healing and try some mindfulness activities for yourself and your students.
This is an outdoor activity. Meet outside of the Cock n' Bull Restaurant. This session overlaps with the breakfast hour, but you will still have 30 minutes for breakfast before the opening remarks.
We will discuss what community engagement looks like, see examples of successful community engagement, and present tools to help us better capture our community's involvement.
Join an environmental educator with over 30 years of experience teaching outdoors. Learn tips and best practices for group management, exploring with inquiry, allaying fears and more.
We'll take a walk outdoors to try out the techniques.
Participants are invited to introduce topics and facilitate discussions in small groups. In Open Space, all participants collectively suggest and select session topics and work together to create a session schedule for the given time frame. Open Space recognizes both the talent in the room as well as the topics important to attendees at this year's WPI.
Some topics already considered include: Conservation Landscaping, Indigenous Protocols, Website Design, and a share-out of this year's Global Water Museum Conference.
Enjoy a morning walk led by Chad Schwartz, Lehigh Gap Nature Center's Executive Director, around the Inn to see the birds of Lahaska. Binoculars will be provided, but please feel free to bring your own!
This is an outdoor activity. Meet outside of the Cock n' Bull Restaurant. This session overlaps with the breakfast hour, but you will still have 30 minutes for breakfast before the opening remarks.
Robin Irizarry (Audubon Mid-Atlantic) and Carmelita Rosner (John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge) will talk about the collaboration with the “Greening Corridor” in Philadelphia. They will answer questions about their collaboration and give you the highlights.
We will then transition into smaller groups to discuss: “How to enter partnerships” - Where/how to find partners for collaboration “How to fund partnerships” - How and where to find funding for partnerships “How to properly put-to-bed partnerships” - What to do when the funding has been spent
Reset Outdoors has been a clinical psychotherapy practice and organizational developmental firm since 2016. Their approach is systems-based and nature-centric, recognizing that well-being and self-care are critically necessary skill sets and not one-size-fits-all. The (abridged) Foundations of Well-Being workshop is a practical refresher course into the nuts and bolts of well-being, why it matters, and how to nurture it in our lives. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their own self-care needs while connecting authentically with colleagues.
New Jersey’s diverse ecosystems are facing serious threats, putting their future and ours at risk. These environmental issues are fundamentally humanitarian crises that demand immediate attention. Climate Revolution Action Network (CRAN) is here to create a platform for the next generation to lead meaningful change, build strong connections across communities, and drive independent initiatives to protect our environment and our people. Their mission is to cut through bureaucratic red tape and drive impactful work that heals the relationship between humanity and nature. They are policy writers, legislative aides, community activists, environmental organizers, poets, communicators, students, graphic designers, accountants, and more. CRAN's goal is to build an interdisciplinary team in order to initiate climate activism throughout New Jersey. Whoever you are, you belong with us fighting the climate crisis.
Fellowship Supervisors and other involved Center staff members will have an opportunity to workshop capstone ideas in a peer-to-peer setting. This session dovetails with a previous virtual Capstone Best Practices session held in early February. Capstones are centered around meaningful and impactful community engagement and participants of this workshop will continue to develop the bones and foundation of potential capstone work in preparation for their incoming 2025 Fellow.
