Welcome to the temporary home of Mobilize GenWise.
How did we get from the Children in Nature movement to Mobilize GenWise?
Developing a vision: the Think Tank.
Mobilize GenWise facilitates a community that enables young adults’ paths to environmental stewardship:
- enjoying nature through outdoor fun and play,
- leading others in outdoor experiences, and
- developing lifestyles of outdoor recreation and conservation.
- (Think Tank wants to add a component on civic engagement or citizen participation)
Target audience: Generation Y young adults (18-30 or 35 year olds) who aren’t spending time outside.
How to contact target audience: Relevant communication.
Encourage and communicate about programming to provide threshold experiences that mobilize people to become leaders; develop leaders who teach skills that mobilize people to play outside.
Foster a social network – build links, connect people, provide a portal for information and forum for information sharing.
Members of the network mentor one another – intergenerational collaboration.
Idea Storm
Questions for breakout groups to answer:
- How do you find information about where you want to recreate or otherwise engage with nature?
- How do you learn outdoor skills? (A class? A friend? How-to websites or videos? Other?)
- What groups of people should participate in the Mobilize GenWise social network (professions, hobbies, organizations)?
- What should a Mobilize GenWise website include? Would you use it? How?
- Think of someone or something that has mobilized you or your friends into action (a political campaign?). What did they/it do that engaged you? How did you act? Why?
- How can you lead or mentor currently-inactive young adults in recreational and nature-based activities?
- What tools and skills do you need to affect change, Mobilize GenWise style?
- [Subject question of your facilitator's choosing]
- ACTION IDEAS – What can you do when you leave here to mobilize Gen Y’s? – MAKE AN ACTION WALL
