The Secret to Building Unstoppable Teens? Outdoor Adventure Education!
Have you ever wondered how outdoor adventure programs can transform young people's lives? Picture a group of teenagers, initially...
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Curt Davidson
- Feb 20
- 3 min
A Timely Revelation: How an Uber Ride Transformed Life and Work
As the dawn of a new year breaks and spring feels just around the corner, it's almost instinctual to find ourselves in a reflective...
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Curt Davidson
- Aug 3, 2023
- 3 min
Reinventing Mental Health Training: See How Alpenglow’s BFR Course Just Got Better!
At Alpenglow Education, we believe continuous improvement and innovation are fundamental to providing the highest quality education and...
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Curt Davidson
- Feb 4, 2023
- 2 min
Carrying Heavy Packs: Mental Health and Outdoor Instructors
For us who work in the outdoor education industry, it is vital to recognize the potential impact of our job on our mental health. Being...
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Curt Davidson
- Oct 23, 2022
- 3 min
The 5 Reasons College Outdoor Programs Work
Building connections and fostering a sense of community is a massive part of experiential education courses. Not only is the community...
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Curt Davidson
- Aug 16, 2022
- 4 min
5 Reasons your Students should be Journaling
Journaling was a huge part of the Experiential Education program when I started leading experiential education courses in the Sierra...
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Becca W Meier
- Feb 1, 2022
- 4 min
A Case for Creativity: French Rolling Pin Edition
So for Christmas this year, my sister requested a homemade French rolling pin. Amid what I have affectionately called...
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Curt Davidson
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
Alpenglow at the AEC Conference!
Long summers, lots of demand, and complex systems require the occasional inspirational boost. Where do these come from for you? For us,...
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Becca W Meier
- Oct 20, 2021
- 5 min
Becoming a Mom in 2021: Opinions, Expectations, and Remembering the Important Things
If we want to understand the oak, it’s back to the acorn we must go · - Dr. Bruce Perry Sometimes when social work themes and...
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Curt Davidson
- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
A Map, A Model, and the Path Forward
"Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's...
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Curt Davidson
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Grieving, Healing, and Climbing Still
During this year’s International Climbers’ Festival in Lander, Wyoming, mental health awareness within the outdoor community was at the...
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Curt Davidson
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
Ditch the Discussion Board: Encouraging Reflection in Elearning
I consider two main factors for facilitation consideration when encouraging reflection from students. The first is time. How much time do...
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Curt Davidson
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
Is Experiential E-Learning an Oxymoron?
Coming out of this pandemic, the last thing many of us want to do is sit in front of a screen to engage in more e-learning, zoom calls,...
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Curt Davidson
- Dec 7, 2020
- 5 min
Herbalism as an Aid to Behavioral First Aid
Today mental health tends to come with a stigma associated with it based on the lack of education and knowledge that our society has to...
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Curt Davidson
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
Ethics: Introspect before you project
Were you a single child or did you come from a big family? Were you raised religious? What culture does your family identify with? Were...
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Curt Davidson
- Oct 5, 2020
- 5 min
The Integration of Herbalism & Wilderness Medicine: A proposition
I am here to propose the integration of two seemingly unrelated fields that in all actuality share many of the same core values, those...
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Curt Davidson
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Creating Meaning Virtual Experiences
As many of you all know from previous workshops and experiences I'm a huge believer in the Flipgrid platform. It's been especially tough...
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Becca W Meier
- Sep 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Revival of Playtime
The psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Brown says, “the opposite of play is not work – the opposite of play is depression.” In a time when many of...
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Becca W Meier
- Aug 31, 2020
- 4 min
Stone Locals: Bridging the Empathy Gap
https://gripped.com/news/rock/stone-locals-patagonias-labour-of-love/
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Becca W Meier
- Aug 25, 2020
- 4 min
Late to the Broadcast
Most students who have attended Indiana University Bloomington have had at least one experience at Lake Monroe, the popular recreational...
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