September's Slew of Learning Opportunities 

Transition into fall by attending one, two or all three of the workshops offered below!

Supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Recreation & Parks Society, the Trail Workshops and the Eastern PA Greenways & Trails Summit are ideal for federal, state, county and municipal parks and forests personnel, landscape architects, engineers, contractors, trail organizations staff and crew leaders. Go Local for Health, also sponsored by PRPS, caters to all south-central Pennsylvanians interested in the issues of affordable and accessible healthy eating and recreation opportunities. Follow the links below for more information! 

Trail Workshops

Kings Gap Environmental Education Center

Kings Gap, PA

September 14th and September 15th

Learn contemporary planning, design and construction skills for creating quality natural surface trails.   These workshops provide both classroom and hands-on instruction, led by Professional Trail Builders Association experts, to provide participants with both the conceptual knowledge, as well as, practical skills.   The following workshops are being offered 1) Contemporary Trail Planning & Management Fundamentals Workshop 2)Planning & Building Accessible Trails Workshop 3) GIS and GPS: Theory, Tools & Techniques for Trails Workshop and 4) Building Trails with Rock Workshop. For more information click here!

Go Local for Health

Gettysburg Hotel

Gettysburg, PA

September 18th

Go Local for Health is a regional summit that will unite community leaders, stakeholders and the general public on the issues of affordable and accessible healthy eating and recreation opportunities in south central Pennsylvania. You will engage with experts on 1) improving access to healthy, affordable, and local food 2) innovative community healthy eating and recreation initiatives 3) media's impact on health and wellness 4) physicians as leaders in community health-by leading local community projects. Visit the Go Local for Health Blog Spot for more information.

Eastern PA Greenways & Trails Summit

DeSales University

Center Valley, PA

September 19th and September 20th

Join Eastern Pennsylvania's trail and greenway community for a two-day summit highlighting regional trail initiatives, real-world solutions to trail issues, best practices and innovative case studies from across the region, need-to-know information for your trail, and a half-day of hands-on field experiences. Visit the Eastern PA Greenways and Trails Summit webpage for more information.

In Positive Coaching Alliance's ELM Tree of Mastery, ELM stands for Effort, Learning and Mistakes are OK. We cannot overemphasize the importance of effort: the one constant that every successful person must bring to every endeavor in sports and beyond.

The ability to sustain effort, even when positive results are not readily apparent, is one of the most important life lessons youth athletes can take from sports. Therefore, it is critical that coaches emphasize effort.

Consider conducting the occasional practice where you reward players with positive reinforcement based only on their effort, regardless of results. Try this in the first practice after a game in which your team's effort was lacking. That is when your players most need a reminder of the value you place on effort and probably need their emotional tanks filled, too.

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