Just Checkin’ In: Feedback as an Essential Skill in the Outdoors

Speaker: Emily Ambrose, Owner of Engage Coaching & Consulting

We all know when it comes to safety in the outdoors, communication and feedback are essential. In a crisis, who is my Incident Commander? What’s happening with the patient? Have the surrounding people been communicated with? But when you’re not “in crisis” it is just as essential when creating a culture of belonging among a team.

This webinar and discussion looks at the ways the brain responds to feedback and the different ways it can be given and received. We’ll discuss “course correction,” “course continuation,” the concepts of time/place/manner, and “pushing-feedback” and “pulling-feedback.” Finally we’ll connect it to the ally action continuum, which will overview how feedback is connected to inclusion work.

Come for a brush-up or come to prepare for that tense conversation you may have been avoiding. The waters may still be choppy, and we can increase our smooth…