Oceans, Waves and Beaches

This session covers how to prepare, plan, and promote a core volunteer training. Case studies from Los Angeles and San Diego are also included.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lpYMY8TLUc]
Other sessions are here.

I’m heading to Florida in a few days, my first stop will be to reconnect with the Miami Beach chapter.
A few years ago I heard about this chapter’s dune restoration project. One characteristic of the project stuck with me more than any other, it was how this project attracted a number of people who had [...]

This session discusses the benefits of a core volunteer training. It builds on the two first to parts shared earlier.
This session answers the simple question “what are the benefits of core volunteer training.”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpivta3h8XE]
Other sessions are here.

This session covers the goals of a core volunteer training and how it relates to the chapter.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUP8RNOht8]
Other sessions are here.

Yet the idea of “democratization of intimacy” is quite intriguing. Parents traveling are putting their children to bed via video, families that have moved away are sharing breakfast with grandparents via video. Of course those aren’t as good as being there in person, nothing is. The point is that connections are being made, at a [...]

Part 1 in a series of videos oriented around core volunteer training. Lindsey Jurca from our West Malibu chapter and Bill Hickman from the San Diego chapter lead the session. Kudos to Mike Pannon for the video work.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWvlEM2hqU]
I’ll pop up the other videos in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, they can all be found [...]

We have all heard the story of the person on the Detroit-bound plane who tried to set off an explosive device. The detail that caught my attention was the failure of our $50B security system and a random passenger’s actions that changed the course of what could have been the worst Christmas memory in ages. [...]