Where We Go from Here: Building a Community of Belonging in the Outdoors - Online Classroom

6:00-8:00pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

Through the sharing of lived experience, group discussion, and facilitated exercises, this presentation explores the challenges and opportunities inherent in our attempt as leaders to create safe shared spaces for our clients and participants in the outdoors. Together, we’ll explore the leader’s role in establishing safe spaces. Where does our responsibility begin and end? How do we do it? But first, we’ll consider what safety means to us and how it might look different for others. We’ll also examine what community means. We may each belong to multiple communities, but does that membership guarantee a sense of belonging? Indeed, safe spaces, community, and belonging are little more than concepts unless we do the work to cultivate the shared meaning in them. This presentation builds on the theme of journeying toward equity and inclusion with the understanding that while our answers are neither comfortable, concrete, or easy, they’re entirely worth the ride! 

Seminar Notes

This presentation will be presented in a lecture format but participants are encouraged to speak up throughout the presentation. Kriste will be interactive with prompting questions interspersed within lecture segments.

PResenter

As a leader and frequent speaker in Colorado’s outdoor community, Kriste Peoples offers experiential workshops that explore the underrepresentation of people of color in nature. An avid trail runner, she serves on the board of the American Trail Running Association, as well as Running Start. She is the Executive Director of Women’s Wilderness, which is a Boulder-based non-profit that serves women, girls, and nonbinary people in gaining more connection, agency, and belonging in nature.