Seminar
Breaking the Halo: Lessons in Leadership from Outdoor Education - Online Classroom
Evening webinar on confronting complacency, assumptions, and communication breakdowns in the outdoors with Katja Hurt. This session will be online only.
- Thu, Oct 28, 2021
- Mountaineers Leadership Development
- Outdoor Leadership
- Adults
- Casual
- $15.00
- 39 (61 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
6:00-7:30pm via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees on the day of the session.
Following the death of a climbing student in 2018 (on a non-Mountaineers climb), Katja and a small group of climbers found several contributing thinking errors and a need to better prepare and empower students to confront heuristic traps. "Breaking the Halo" offers a simple, universal approach to confronting complacency, assumptions, and communication breakdowns between students and instructors.
Katja Hurt is an outdoorsy nerdette with a penchant for volunteering and trying to make the world a better place. In 2018, Katja left her six years in law enforcement to launch Wilderness Chaplains, a nonprofit providing education and crisis support to wilderness first responders. She wrote "Breaking the Halo," a presentation-turned-publication on empowering students to confront heuristic traps in outdoor education. Katja's degrees include crisis and disaster management, communication studies, and a master's in pastoral studies...but she prefers to be known for her work as a police and fire chaplain, Outdoor Emergency Care instructor and 12+ years volunteering with the National Ski Patrol. She is a fourth generation Mountaineer and graduate of the Olympia Basic Climbing Course.
ONLINE ONLY
This seminar will be delivered online via Zoom meeting. You will need access to a computer or device (preferably with a speaker and camera), as well as high-speed internet. Information about how to log-on to the Zoom meeting will be emailed the day of the session.
Badges
participants will earn:
leaders will earn:
Required Equipment
Computer or device (preferably with a speaker and camera), as well as high-speed internet.