TAPG Pre-ConferenceNovember 1, 2011

SO WHY DO WE DO IT?

“So why do we do it?What good is it?

Does it teach you anything?Like determination? Invention?

Improvisation? Foresight? Hindsight?Love?

Art? Music? Religion?Strength or patience or accuracy or

quickness or tolerance orwhich wood will burn and how long is

a day?And how far is a mile?

And how delicious is water andsmoky green pea soup?

And how to relyon yourself?”

Terry and Renney Russell, On the Loose

John Smithhis

Cairns

1. Ways to use the item in beneficial or helpful ways

2. Ways to use the item in harmful or hurtful ways

Brainstorming

Examples of Tools• Community Meetings• Greeting people when they arrive• Simulations• Activities• Wilderness trips• Traditions• Sharing/Talking circles

“People and environments are never neutral, they are either summoning or shunning the development of human potential.”

Purkey & Novak, Inviting School SuccessSee Invitational Education at

www.invitationaleducation.net

How to Increase the Probability of Helping and being Beneficial

How to Increase the Probability of Helping and being Beneficial

Some (not so) Random Thoughts• Know my mission: Personally and

Professionally• Continuously explore the “Why”• Look through the activities and into the

process• Know (and trust) my medium• Strive to keep an open and broad view• Don’t take myself too seriously• Be Intentional

“It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.”

~ Wendell Berry

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

~ Joseph Wood Krutch

• People• Talents/Gifts• Ideas• Insights• Inspiration• Life Experience• Family• Beliefs & Ideals• Values• Theories & Models

What Guides You? What shows you the way?

How did I add to my cairn?

Laurie FrankGOAL Consulting1337 Jenifer StreetMadison, Wisconsin 53703USA

1-608-251-2234LSFrank@mac.comwww.goalconsulting.org