#35: Karen Whittaker – (20+) Tech School Groups, Essential Skills, Disasters, and Invitation Programming

About this episode

Chris and Karen discuss the importance of team building for today's youth and share insights on essential skills and experiential learning.

Chris and Karen share their experiences with todays youth and why team building is still important. Karen tells us about some of her favorite activities and why disasters are a key factor for learning and growing. She sees elementary through high school students at the Base Camp Challenge Center, helping them acquire the 'essential skills' critical to career success. Working with high school students learning a trade makes the experiential activities even more powerful – they get hands-on pra...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Cavert

Guest: Karen Whittaker

Topics covered

• team building
• youth development
• essential skills
• experiential learning
• career success

Keywords

• team building
• youth
• essential skills
• experiential activities
• career success

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Base Camp Challenge Center

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