Heritage  Interpretation Training Center
Spring  Docent/Volunteer Interpretive Training Workshops for  Museums,
Historic Homes, Parks and Related Heritage Sites.

We  are pleased to offer our spring Docent/Volunteer Interpretive Training
workshops for getting your seasonal or volunteer staff ready to Provoke,
Relate and Reveal your unique stories and the stories hidden in your objects
and  artwork, to your visitors in inspirational ways.
Available  as one day to 3 day interpretive training experiences with lots
of hands-on  interpretive learning opportunities (people remember 90% of
what they do  ).
Course  topics include:
* How your  visitors learn and remember in a recreational learning
environments.
* Developing  your interpretive theme and storyline.
* Developing  your interpretive tour route and stops (to illustrate you
main interpretive  theme).
* Reading your  audience and pre-tour audience analysis (how to best
"relate" to your group  using interpretive "intangibles" in your presentation
examples).
* Ongoing tour  evaluation - are they getting the message - relate each
tour stop back to your  main theme.
* How to  position and manage your tour group stops throughout your  tour.
* Developing  your interpretive objectives (what you want your tour or
program to have  accomplished during and after the tour is over).
* Interpretive  techniques and discovery experiences to engage your tour
group (touch, small,  feel, think).
* End of tour  evaluation techniques for self-evaluation. How do you think
you did?
If you would  like more information on our docent/volunteer interpretive
techniques and  principles training programs and seminars, feel free to get in
touch.  Put  our 40 years of training interpreters to work for you.
Workshop costs:  $600.00 per day of training  plus related travel costs.
e-textbooks and handout materials are included in the course  tuition.
John  Veverka
Director,  HITC
Certified  Interpretive Trainer
Sr. Instructor,  Kansas State University - Global Museum (Interpretive
Planning).
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