Elevate Outdoors: Access and Belonging in Outdoor Recreation
Program description
Outdoor recreation offers valuable benefits to both locals and visitors. But how can we ensure these benefits are equitably accessible for everyone? Elevate Outdoors: Access, and Belonging in Outdoor Recreation is an employee development program designed for customer-facing employees to foster more inclusive experiences within the outdoor recreation economy.
This course will provide research-driven, self-reflective learning for your employees to develop the skills to create more equitable and welcoming outdoor recreation spaces.
Enrolling a team? Please contact us for bulk-enrollment discounts.
Key Takeaways from Elevate Outdoors
This training is designed for all customer-facing staff in the outdoor recreation economy including sales representatives, tour guides, park rangers, customer service associates and more.
Through a series of online learning modules, your employees will learn to:
- Understand the barriers to access in the outdoors and the importance of inclusion and belonging.
- Gain awareness of the complexity of identity and influence of one’s own identity.
- Leverage learned insights to contribute to the creation of inclusive and welcoming experiences in outdoor recreation spaces.
Upon course completion, learners receive a digital badge that is specific to them. It can be displayed on social media such as LinkedIn, or added to a résumé.
Additional program features
All online courses are self-paced and optimized for mobile devices, meaning you can complete the course whenever and wherever it is most convenient for you.
While completion time varies, most learners complete all course content in about 8 hours.
