A Successful 2023 Workshop! Mark your calendars for next year!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at BLW last week! The BLW committee is grateful for all of your enthusiasm, caring, and positive energy. This year's theme was LeaderSHIP: Make Waves - and we hope everyone took home some great ideas, stories, and memories.

Mark your calendars: Next year's workshop will take place April 3-7, 2024! Our committee is already starting the process of planning for 2024 - theme coming soon!

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Bill leading song circle, singing Part of the Rainbow

Five Pounds of Possum

Registration is open!

The BLW committee is preparing to host the 77th edition of Buckeye Leadership Workshop March 22 - 26, 2023 at Recreation Unlimited. Registration is live now and we encourage everyone interested in attending to register early!

Can't make it to workshop in 2023? Find someone from your home community to attend in your place! Our past workshop attendees are our greatest resource for promoting the event. We rely on your word of mouth advertising to fill attendance to capacity - so please help us make BLW 2023 another successful event!

A flyer with workshop information is being mailed out early next week.

2023 Featured Speaker

We are excited to share that Annie Frisoli will be the featured speaker at BLW 2023. Annie is the founder and CEO if Creating Community, LLC. At BLW this year, she will be leading a session titled “Purposeful Program Design.” Annie has a Master’s degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Recreation Management, is a Certified Festivals & Events Executive (CFEE), is certified in Foundations of Design Thinking, and has a Train the Trainer Certification in Experience Innovation. She has 25 years of experience leading workshops, teaching in a university setting, and helping organizations build their teams. We’re thrilled to have Annie join us for BLW 2023!

Jim Cain to be the featured presenter at BLW 2022

The BLW planning committee is thrilled to announce that Dr. Jim Cain will be joining us at the 2022 workshop as our featured presenter! Teambuilding Guru Dr. Jim Cain is the author of 25 best-loved books filled with team and community building activities from around the world. His real-world in-person train-the-trainer workshops are legendary in the adventure-based learning community and his virtual activities are used around the world.

Jim will be leading two sessions at the 2022 Workshop:

His morning session is The Teambuilders Toolbox (Workshop fee = $100). This ‘make it and take it” workshop will allow you to build your own collection of powerful teambuilding props (and take them home with you). Based upon the content of Jim’s latest book to be published in summer 2022. Join in, and perhaps you will be included in the book!

His afternoon session is Re-Building Unity, Community & Connection in a Post-Pandemic World. Teambuilding Guru Dr. Jim Cain shares his favorite ways for re-building, re-connecting and re-engaging audiences in positive and productive ways. You’ll get to take home your choice of 3 of Jim’s resource books at the end of the session!

We hope you will join us at the 2022 Buckeye Leadership Workshop to learn from Jim and all of our other wonderful facilitators!