Friday, November 22, 12:00noon Central / 1:00 PM Eastern

These days we hear so many ideas and thoughts around ways to operationalize equity, inclusion, and justice and not enough discussion around what it really takes. During this webinar, we'll focus on practical tools and skill building in support of shared leadership and conflict resolution. For shared leadership, we will get into practical tips around shared power along with shifting from a culture of shaming and blaming to one of shared accountability. Through engaging activities, we will explore how to build consensus in a group as a way to have generative conflict that leads to deepening relationships. This session will leave you with practical skills and reproducible fun activities to try with your students.

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The presenter, Eileen Everett, first began the journey into systems thinking and interconnectedness  when she studied human ecology in the late 1990s, identifying the critical need for water in the Rio  Grande for humans along with natural and built systems. From there, she went on to get an MS in  Wildlife Science from NMSU, applying that knowledge to several years as a field biologist across  New Mexico. During this time, she began seeing that land, wildlife, and water conservation are all  dependent on people and made the switch to working with youth and adults through outdoor and  environmental learning two decades ago. Since then, she has worked in and adjacent to New  Mexico’s education system, having brought over 25,000 New Mexico kids from over 100 schools  outdoors through multi-day, standards-aligned programming.

Most recently, Eileen served as executive director where she built one of the largest capacity  outdoor learning networks in the country serving over 150 organizations that support 285,000 New  Mexican youth annually. During the six years in this role, Eileen tripled the operating budget,  increased staff capacity fourfold, advanced state level policy in outdoor learning (and has a 100%  success rate bill passage on the first year of introduction of 6 bills at the New Mexico Legislature),  and created a variety of new programs including the first fellowship program of its kind supporting  interconnected interests like environmental justice, conservation, outdoor recreation, and outdoor  learning and education in many forms.

Eileen is an ongoing student of embodied social justice and conflict resolution, and has worked for  over 15 years in collaboration with others to change systems for education, the outdoors, and  conservation to be more authentically inclusive, equitable, and just for all. As the Chief  Transformation Officer for Prospera Partners, she handles business development and systems  change consulting and facilitation for the company. She has facilitated conversations on equity  since 2016 including about the intersections of identities and experiences, the need for cross racial  solidarity, viewing the world through the lens of queerness, and the necessity for social justice in  conservation and education in New Mexico and nationally.

In her free time, she can be found tending her goat herd or trying out new practices in shared  leadership as Board Chair at TOTAL (Teaching Outdoors to All Learners) NM. She also serves at the  request of the Governor on New Mexico’s State Park Advisory Board and is a co-founder of the  Queer Environmental Educators Network.

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This webinar is funded by ee360+ (a consortium of 27 partners led by the North American  Association for Environmental Education and funded by the US EPA).