2010 Call for Presenters Information Sheet
We appreciate your consideration of presenting a workshop at the upcoming ACCT conference. In reviewing evaluation information from last year’s conference, many suggestions were made for potential workshops in upcoming years. Below are some of the ideas that were listed:
Facilitation & Program Design
· Christian / faith based
· Working with the Corporate Client
· New Ideas in Challenge Course Facilitation
· Basic Challenge Course Facilitation
· Debriefing techniques
· Co-leadership ~ how to facilitate with another person
· Peer leadership ~ high school, college
· Games and initiatives
· University programming
· Improvisation
· Nature and the Challenge Course
Industry & Association Business
· Trends in the industry
· Challenges outside the industry
· Certification standards & process
· Working with Government Regulators
Course Administration & Management
· Developing a strong relationship with your vendor
· Going green
· Mock trial regarding an injury on a challenge course
· Logistics management
· Business aspects of starting a challenge course
· Day to day course management
· Hiring staff
· Managing a Canopy/Zip line tour
Technical Design & Installation
· Technical workshops
· Utility products or tool makers
· Gear retirement
· Canopy/zip line tour topics
· Arborist topics
The above are ideas only. We hope that you have an abundance of your own thoughts/concepts for workshops. We are looking for presenters who manage and facilitate on courses as well as builders, trainers and other professionals.
One of the most frequent feedback comments we get is that the description of the workshop does not match the content of the workshop. We realize that we are limiting you to a number of words. PLEASE do your best to accurately describe the content of your workshop as well as your intended audience – beginner, advanced, or open to all.