Building Empathy and Connectivity Through Play by Jeff Frigon, Youth & Student Programs Coordinator In our work, we are often tasked with helping groups build healthy community. Boiled down to its most basic form, the distillate for you science folks, a healthy community is made up of individuals who are connected enough to one another … Read more
Resource Barriers In our Positively Impacting School Climate workshop we delve into diversity, inclusion and bullying prevention programming. This image shows an activity where educators reflected on what resources exist in their organizations to move student centered programming forward and what barriers come up for implementations. The next challenge was to weave a rope through the … Read more
Dear World Live at UNH Tara Flippo (Browne Center Youth Director) and Jeff Frigon (Browne Center Youth Coordinator) took part in the “Dear World Live at UNH” event this week with photographer and founder Robert Fogarty. Their messages are fitting as their shared work with educators is helping to make schools and youth programming more welcoming, … Read more
Teaming at The Browne Center Kick-starting their Part Time MBA program, students from Paul College at UNH immersed themselves in a day of experiential learning at The Browne Center. Students established relationships and created a solid learning community, designed to accelerate the rate of learning and strength of support throughout the program. They applied concepts … Read more
The Association for Experiential Education (AEE) exists to connect a global community of educators and practitioners and expand their capacity to enrich lives through Experiential Education. RW 4 Social Justice Education in 3D: Activities for Dialogue, Discussion, and Discovery Thursday, October 23, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Tara Flippo, The Browne Center This workshop uses … Read more
Jeff Frigon presents: Empathy and Connection: The intersection of community-building and brain science as a pre-emptive means of addressing bullying. at The Association for Experiential Education Pre-conference in Chattanooga, TN Wednesday, October 22 – 8:30 am- 4:00 pm Cost: $130 Many of us, at some point in our histories, have had experiences that fall on either … Read more
Want to start your own ropes course? Consider this… A quick resource guide by Tara Flippo, Browne Center Challenge Course Manager We frequently get questions at The Browne Center about what is required to start a ropes course. Considerations include: Site selection: for pole course? Tree course? Is there room to expand course after initial … Read more
Notable Quotes: 2014 UNH AOP Conference By Crystie McGrail This year I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 13th Administrative Office Professionals (AOP) Development Conference at UNH-Durham. It would be difficult to describe all of the meaningful moments from the conference so I have instead decided to highlight a few quotes that I scribbled … Read more
A monthly showcase featuring our diverse and talented contract staff. May Featured Facilitator – Johnson Whippie Please share any experiences of co-facilitating with Johnson or having him as your facilitator on our facebook page. Johnson Whippie has been a Youth and Student Programs Facilitator since March, 2012! He is currently enrolled as an Undergraduate at UNH … Read more
Connections to a Learning Community Every Spring we invite our contract staff for a professional development workshop, updates, and a verification of their technical skills on the challenge course (in-line with national standards). The content for the professional development changes every year. This year we covered large group activities and applications for an exciting new … Read more
