Leadership Clinic Past
Each year, from 1996-1999, approximately 100 EE leaders from the NEEAP EE 2000 states and the NAAEE affiliate states;  local, state, and national resource people; and floating facilitators came together at this gathering to help state/provincial EE teams advance their local, state and regional EE action plans. Funding for these leadership Clinics is offered by The Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The 2003 EETAP Leadership Clinic, brought together eight state teams from the EETAP States Program, three community teams from the Demonstration Communities Project and a national team from the Groundwater Foundation.  These EE leaders, along with EETAP Partners and other local, state and national resource people worked toward the four goals of Networking, Professional Development, Planning, and Evaluation (described below).

The purpose of the leadership clinic is four-fold:

1) to provide a growing network of EE leaders with opportunities to exchange information and ideas;

2) to provide state/provincial EE leaders with training in organizational development, grassroots organization, strategic planning;

3) to help state/provincial teams develop or refine EE action plans; and

4) to provide a forum for discussion about strategies to increase capacity for EE at the local, state, regional and national levels.

Much of the clinic is spent in individual team planning sessions, during which state and national teams invite floating facilitators, resource people, and other teams to work with them as-needed. Through the use of large group processes such as Open Space technology and Heads Together multiple-state groups work together periodically to address topics of shared interest or concern. Finally, skill building and professional development sessions are active sessions where every team leaves with a product such as a plan strategy draft, a grant proposal draft, a conceptual map, a set of draft EE guidelines, a media plan, or a written exercise for organizational development.

2003 EETAP Leadership Clinic