Strengthen your skills for leading volunteers in natural areas management with this interactive primer from The Morton Arboretum for volunteer stewardship activity planning, group dynamics, safety, and volunteer empowerment.
- Learn how to plan and run a productive volunteer workday for activities such as tree planting, invasive brush removal, and seed collection that will inspire volunteers to keep coming back.
- Discover some methods of bringing volunteers together with social media, mailing lists, and in-person meetings.
- Gain skills to recruit, retain, and empower volunteers to lead others with community organizing fundamentals.
This program includes self-paced online components and a live online session.
Instructor: Lisa Warren, natural resources technician, The Morton Arboretum
Continuing Education: This class fulfills a requirement for the Natural Areas Conservation Training (N-ACT) Program. Learn more about N-ACT.
Age: 16 and older
Course number: W510
Instructor
Lisa Warren, natural resources technician, The Morton Arboretum
Lisa Warren is a natural resources technician at The Morton Arboretum and spent the past year coordinating Arboretum natural resources and collections volunteers. She holds a BS in environmental science from Lewis University. She started volunteering at the Arboretum in early 2020, which turned into a steward leadership role, and then her current full time position. She loves working outdoors and being able to make a difference in our natural areas.
What to Know
Please provide a unique email address for each registrant at registration.
This program includes an online component you will complete on your own and a live, scheduled Zoom session.
Registrants will receive an email with instructions on how to access Treelearning, the Arboretum’s online learning portal.
Access begins at noon on the class start date and is available for 60 days after the start date.
Complete the self-paced online modules before the scheduled Zoom session. Self-paced online learning should take about 90 minutes and does not need to be completed in one sitting.
The link to the live Zoom session will be provided via email.
This class fulfills a requirement for the Natural Areas Conservation Training (N-ACT) Program. Learn more about N-ACT.
Program Schedule
This program includes an online component you will complete on your own, and one scheduled in-person field session.
Thursday, March 14, 2024, noon Central: Access self-paced online components.
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.: Attend live Zoom session
Online (TreeLearning and Zoom)
