B. Synchronous* Online or Face to Face Training Choices

B3. Custom Options

Learn how Participatory Interpretation could help your staff/volunteers engage visitors so that visitors create their own connections and meanings. The PIE model stresses Participation first, Information next and Encouragement to conclude. This short course involves your team for 4 hours and introduces them to a variety of participatory interpretive techniques, as well as to the benefits of engaging visitors in the interpretive experience.

Learn how conversational interpretation could help your staff/volunteers connect visitors with your site’s stories through two-way or multi-way talk. We will use the TALK model, which includes Try Talk Types, Ask Open Ended-Questions, Lead with Facilitation Techniques and Keep on Inspiring. This short course involves your team for 4 hours and provides an introduction to techniques for increasing the use of conversation in interpretation, as well as to the benefits of engaging visitors through two-way or multi-way talk. There will be time in the course for practising writing and asking conversational questions tailored to each site.

Take a quick bite of PIE to help your team become familiar with interpretation that aims to engage visitors through participation at all stages of the experience.

After your team explores Participation first, Information next and Encouragement to conclude, we will move on and spend the bulk of the session on TALK (AKA Conversational Interpretation).

The TALK model includes Try Talk Types, Ask Open Ended-Questions, Lead with Facilitation Techniques and Keep on Inspiring and covers all the essentials of talk-based interpretation.

This is a quick introductory course with limited time to discuss any of the content in detail.

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Note- If you want your team familiar with both participatory and talk-based interpretation, we recommend that you sign up for Inspire through Participatory Interpretation  (8.5 hours) which combines both topics and includes enough time to tailor the discussions to your site. 

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A Growth Mindset is essential for modern day interpreters who need to be constantly open to learning and experimentation. Become familiar with the theory behind growth mindset by Dr. Carol Dweck of Stanford University. Discover the value of having a growth versus a fixed mindset and how to support each other through Feedforward that is Up, Down and All Around. Jacquie will share examples of successful use of the Growth Mindset in interpretation.

How could your team engage visitors in conversation when an interpreter is not present, such as through exhibits, signage or other media? We will look at examples and then focus on your site. You will leave with a draft plan for enhancing site-specific multi-way talk among your visitors using a variety of techniques. Bonus- Visitors engaged through these techniques will leave behind thoughts that you can share with management in your reports. 

Do you want to help your visitors make history meaningful to themselves? The 10 best practices in the Parks Canada Framework for History and Commemoration (2019) apply to any site. After an introduction to the best practices and a brief overview of Participatory Interpretation, we will discuss how to bring all the ideas together at your site. Your team will leave with innovative tools for ways to help bring new perspectives to history and engage visitors in making the history relevant to their lives.