Experiential Events
Build Hope through Experiential Learning
Hope Quest is The Center for Experiential Learning's student and teacher pathway to engagement, inspiration, and agency. This pathway, shaped by peer leadership and peer learning, includes sharing in a circle, facilitating experiential learning, and utilizing podcasts.
Come join us at the EF Certification dates, or contact us to come to your school for Hope Quest Circles or a Podcast Workshop.
Make a Podcast
This four-hour Podcast workshop is a hands-on experience to produce a podcast for a group of students, or a group of teachers, or both. With his mobile Podcast studio, Dr. Steven Rippe will work with your team to learn the technical and practical means to build a Podcast. The value of being able to converse deeply with peers is inspiring; building the podcast is rejuvenating.
Dr. Steven Rippe will lead this Make a Podcast workshop: one hour on-line pre-podcast planning session, combines with the half-day Podcast experience.
Regular Fee: $750 event
Schools of Hope Fee: $575
Title II or Title IV funds event
Experiential Facilitator Certification
A 2 day in-depth training, limited to 12 participants, who want to be experiential learning lead facilitators in their school, district, or organization. Energize the vision for your school! Details of 2 days
Become highly-skilled to facilitate small and large groups. Dr. Steven Rippe will lead this two-day experiential certification.
Two dates are set in the Twin Cities: June 10, 11 or June 17,18
Regular Fee: $750 person
School of Hope Fee: $575 person
Title II or Title IV funds event
Hope Quest Circle
This two-hour facilitative dialogue brings a student's experiences and capabilities to the chosen dialogue topic. By experiencing the HQC protocol three distinct times, students and teachers become skilled. Sharing ideas and listening carefully becomes powerful. An idea can surface, take shape, and drive the group’s collective purpose.
Dr. Steven Rippe will facilitate, modeling and mentoring the HQC protocol. Completed, teachers can lead the HQC on their own.
Regular Fee: $900 3 HQC events
Schools of Hope Fee: $700
Title II or Title IV funds event
Empowerment for your learning community
through democratic learning and leading
When people have voice and choice, they are engaged and contribute to a culture of hope.
Collaborative spaces that support dialogue are needed to co-create meaningful change. Coming together with your team, or showing up individually for an online discussion, or in-person gathering will help you clarify your goals.
We are ready to host and coach your team to make a difference for your students, coworkers, and community.