LabX Extreme Event game Facilitator Training Program

I LOVE training and education, especially when combined with an innovative approach (gamification!) focused on driving conversation around resilience.

As a seasoned Instructor and Consultant with Epicenter Innovation, I jumped at the opportunity to join their team crafting educational training content for the LabX Extreme Event game Facilitator Training Program.

This is not another “Train-the-Trainer” program that you may have been through, struggling to stay awake and doing so ‘only to get the certificate.’ Instead, the Facilitator Training Program is designed for emergency management, education, and other public outreach professionals to learn how to deliver the Extreme Event game more effectively. Moreover, it enhances facilitation skills and explores methods to connect resilience themes to players’ every day lives.

The Extreme Event game is an in-person role-playing game where players collaborate to solve challenges in a simulated disaster scenario while learning about building resilience in their lives and in their community.

“Developed by the National Academy of Sciences’ Koshland Science Museum (now LabX) in collaboration with the ResilientAmerica Roundtable, Extreme Event’s content draws on recommendations from the seminal National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative.”

Visit the LabX Extreme Event game Facilitator Training Program site to learn more, sign up to take the Tier 1 program, and for updates on the Tier 2 and Tier 3 facilitator training programs which are under development.