A monthly showcase featuring our diverse and talented contract staff. June Featured Facilitator – Nat Morgan Please share any experiences of co-facilitating with Nat or having him as your facilitator on our facebook page. Nat Morgan recently completed an MS in the Environmental Studies program with a concentration in Environmental Education from Antioch University: New England. The … Read more
A monthly showcase featuring our diverse and talented contract staff. June Featured Facilitator – Greg Urban Please share any experiences of co-facilitating with Greg or having him as your facilitator on our facebook page. Greg Urban has just started at The Browne Center this year in Youth & Student Programs. When not at the Browne Center, he … Read more
A monthly showcase featuring our diverse and talented contract staff. May Featured Facilitator – Connor Garvey Please share any experiences of co-facilitating with Connor or having him as your facilitator on our facebook page. Connor Garvey has worked with the Browne Center in both Youth and Corporate/Organizational programming since 2010. Having grown up in a family of … Read more
The Drive Discussion Guide #14 by Crystie McGrail On a recent trip I spent many quality hours traveling via a bus, waiting in an airport and finally on a plane and I used this time to read Drive- The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink. I highly suggest picking up … Read more
What’s up with certification? UNH’s answer to that question when asked by our challenge course students by Tara Flippo, Associate Clinical Faculty in Outdoor Education and Youth Programs Director Students at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) who complete KIN 541, Challenge Course Management class, often do so with questions about what they “qualified” and/or certified … Read more
“Winterizing” Your Ropes Course By Jeff Frigon The winter of 2015 has brought record snowfalls in the Northeast; upwards of 5 feet in the last month. We still program in the snow and these unprecedented snowfall numbers in such a short span has added additional challenges to winter use of our course! It was a … Read more
To continue the thread of empathy from Jeff Frigon’s January blog post, this month’s video featuring Dr. Brene Brown offers a clear explanation about why empathy is so vital to connection. Her pithy wit and some great animation capture what we all, at some point, wish to receive when we are having difficulties: recognition … Read more
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
