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Humor and EE: It's all fun and games until somebody learns!
Getting worn down by the doom and gloom? Come to the workshop your mother warned you about! A full-day workshop, free and open to all educators!
This supercharged interactive workshop will stock your environmental and conservation education toolkit with tools and techniques that use play, humor and laughter to help you:
1. Open people’s minds to new ideas.
2. Create lasting positive emotional associations with the environment.
3. Attract new audiences.
4. Bring together people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
5. Bridge cross-cultural divides.
6. Empower people to take positive action.
Through gently playful, inclusive, and joyful approaches, difficult subjects such as climate change, environmental justice, and overpopulation can be introduced to broad audiences, attracting—not alienating—potential allies. Effective use of humor can serve as a bridge that engages diverse groups, bringing people together to solve common goals.
In this workshop, you will learn techniques used by storytellers, comedians, educators, and marketing agencies to communicate through humor, as well as ways to effectively incorporate laughter and play to deliver a program. We will move through a series of activities such as laughter yoga to prime the pump of creative thinking, applying these skills in small-group break-out sessions that focus on incorporating these approaches into your own context.
In addition to tools and techniques, you will be connected to a broad global network for positive change, including an overview of environmental organizations that use humor to relay their message. Join in and gain some inspiration for how you can make your contribution to grassroots social movements of humor and joyfulness for social and environmental change!
We'll be hosting three workshops on our "(Almost) Border-Wide Tour", find a city near you, register and come laugh and learn with us!
Tucson, Arizona
Date: Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Time: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Place: Tucson Botanical Gardens
Address: 2150 N. Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85716
Register soon! limited spaces available!
El Paso, Texas
Date: Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Time: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Place: El Paso TecH2O Center
Address: 10751 Montana Ave, El Paso, TX 79935
Register soon! limited spaces available!
San Diego, California
Date: Monday, October 18th, 2010
Time: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Place: San Diego Natural History Museum
Address: 1788 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101
Register soon! limited spaces available!
This workshop series is made possible by Together Green, a dynamic and innovative Audubon initiative, funded by Toyota. Thanks to our partners and sponsors, the Environmental Education Exchange, Intelligent Play, San Diego Natural History Museum, PROBEA, Tucson Botanical Gardens, Arizona Association for Environmental Education, University of Texas at El Paso, TecH2O Center and El Paso Water Utilities.
Facilitators:
Aliza Weller, Ian Signer and Pepe Marcos-Iga
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Register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/eelol