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2021 Tacoma Leadership Conference Breakout Sessions

2021 Tacoma Leadership Conference Breakout Sessions

Review a list of breakout sessions scheduled for the 2021 Leadership Conference in Tacoma on November 20! Information will be updated and added as sessions are confirmed. Please check back often for additional information!

This year we are excited to be hosting two smaller Leadership Conferences:  November 20 in Tacoma and December 4 in Seattle. 

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The theme for this year's two conferences is Coming Together. We've heard your resounding  desire  to come together as a community. Community is one of The Mountaineers five core values, and we're excited to acknowledge your collective impact to our community.  This conference will offer a series of interactive sessions that explores the many facets of leadership, including: Equity & Inclusion, Risk Management, Group Facilitation & Instruction, and Conservation & Advocacy. 

WElcome session

TOM VOGL

8:30-9:00 | Great Hall

Morning Session 1 

Strategies for Instruction: Lessons from Research and Experience

Group Facilitation & Instruction track 

Ben Brown 

9:15-10:30 | Great hall

This session is intended for anyone who instructs with The Mountaineers! We will draw on some of the points introduced in the excellent book, "Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" to apply research-based principles and practices to our Mountaineers lessons and courses. In preparation for this session, please think about a class or course you have taught recently, and reflect on how you taught it-- especially if you ran into challenges with instruction or with students retaining new learning! This session will heavily utilize small-group discussion and reflection. 

How Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Principles Can Improve Risk Management Systems

 Equity & INclusion and Risk Management track 

Moleek Busby

9:15-10:30 | Class Room 

This workshop will gather wisdom from industry leaders who have intentionally leveraged diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) work to improve various risk management systems within their organizations.

Morning session 2 

The Assumption of Risk Defense in Real Life

 Risk Management track 

BRian Augenthaler

10:45-12:00 | Great Hall 

You know the phrase “assumption of risk,” but how does it apply when a lawsuit is filed? Find out in this small group exercise led by outdoor recreation attorney Brian Augenthaler. Attendees will be provided with the legal underpinnings and elements of the assumption of risk defense and then broken up into the small groups to discuss real life cases. We will then reconvene to share predictions of how the court ruled and close with a discussion of what actually happened.

Breaking the Halo: Empowering Students in Outdoor Education

Risk Management TRACK 

Katja Hurt

10:45-12:00 | Class Room 

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. 

afternoon session 1

Accident Analysis Workshop: Accident Causation and Learning From Incidents

 risk Management track 

Steve Smith 

1:00-2:15 | Great Hall 

Participants will learn and apply different models for accident analysis (using case studies), and explore the organizational benefits of learning from incidents (rather than blaming individuals).  

Title TBD 

 track TBD 

Speaker TBD 

1:00-2:15  | Class Room 

Description TBD 

Afternoon Session 2

Title TBD 

Conservation & Advocacy track 

BEtsy Robblee

2:30-3:45 | Great Hall 

Description TBD 

Title TBD 

 track TBD 

Speaker TBD 

2:30-3:45  | Class Room 

Description TBD 

Lunchtime 

Lunch will be a time to give attendees the flexibility to move around, mingle, and learn from the vendors and sessions that we’ll have available.

Open seating for lunch will be available in the Great Hall.

Vendor & Partner Tables

Lobby | 12:00-1:00

Visit with our vendors and partner organizations to learn more about their products and programs! 

Retro Rewind: Movie Screening from the Archives!

Board Room | 12:10-12:50

Looking for something different over lunch? New this year, we’re excited to offer a short selection of films from the Mountaineers Archives! Special thanks to Lowell Skoog of the History Committee for sharing these fun blasts from the past.

  • The Boys on the Cliff - This is a short newsreel-style film about mountain safety, filmed by Bob and Ira Spring. The film was produced as a companion piece to an August 1961 story by the same name in Reader's Digest magazine.
  • Skiing Cascade Wilderness - This 30 minute film illustrates skiing in the Lyman Lake area above Holden near Lake Chelan in 1956. Chuck Hessey and friends visited this area many times in the 1940s and 1950s, staying for weeks at a time in a snow survey cabin that stood near the lake.
  • This is Self Arrest - This short film was made on Mt. Rainier, above the east side of Nisqually Glacier, in 1967. It was produced by Al Stenson and narrated by Jim Whittaker.

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