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 203 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, 20233 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, 20232 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, 20223 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, 20224 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, 20224 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, 20212 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, 20215 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, 20213 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20213 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, 20205 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, 20204 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, 20205 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, 20201 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, 20204 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, 20204 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, 20204 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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