Join us for the 2024 NCDCTA Instructors Workshop!
This will be an engaging and impactful workshop where we tackle the pressing challenges facing our equestrian community. In July 2024, Eliza Sydnor Romm, one of our beloved trainers, made headlines with her poignant post about the realities of running a training business—issues like staffing shortages, the struggle to pay a living wage, and rising farm supply costs resonated widely and sparked important conversations across the nation and beyond.
We are thrilled to announce that NCDCTA has partnered with Elon University's Center for Design Thinking to facilitate this workshop. Together, we will explore innovative solutions to these challenges using design thinking methods. This is an opportunity for instructors, trainers, and horse professionals to collaborate, share experiences, and develop actionable strategies to adapt and thrive in our evolving industry.
This workshop is FREE to NCDCTA professionals. The cost is $30 to non-member professionals.
This event is graciously funded by The Dressage Foundation's Violet Hopkins Fund Grant!
Breakfast is graciously sponsored by Dressage4Kids.
Lunch will be served during the event and included in the ticket price.
**Space is limited to 40 participants**
Tickets are available until 11/16/24
This will be an engaging and impactful workshop where we tackle the pressing challenges facing our equestrian community. In July 2024, Eliza Sydnor Romm, one of our beloved trainers, made headlines with her poignant post about the realities of running a training business—issues like staffing shortages, the struggle to pay a living wage, and rising farm supply costs resonated widely and sparked important conversations across the nation and beyond.
We are thrilled to announce that NCDCTA has partnered with Elon University's Center for Design Thinking to facilitate this workshop. Together, we will explore innovative solutions to these challenges using design thinking methods. This is an opportunity for instructors, trainers, and horse professionals to collaborate, share experiences, and develop actionable strategies to adapt and thrive in our evolving industry.
This workshop is FREE to NCDCTA professionals. The cost is $30 to non-member professionals.
This event is graciously funded by The Dressage Foundation's Violet Hopkins Fund Grant!
Breakfast is graciously sponsored by Dressage4Kids.
Lunch will be served during the event and included in the ticket price.
**Space is limited to 40 participants**
Tickets are available until 11/16/24
Location
Elon University
103 W College Ave Elon, NC 27244
103 W College Ave Elon, NC 27244
Date & Time
November 23, 2024, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Schedule
9:00 AM
Welcome & Introductions
- Welcome from Ali Perkins LaTorre
- Storysharing by Eliza Sydnor Romm
9:30 AM
Reimagining the Dressage Industry using Design Thinking Part I: Changing Ourselves
- Welcome stoke: Introduction to Research on Play
- The Six Dimensions of Wellbeing with DT 101
- DT 101 Partnered Designing: How might we design a dream job in the equine industry for our partner (a future that fosters wellbeing, brings joy, and is sustainable?
- Sharing Designs
12:00 PM
Lunch and Gallery Walk
- Conversations
- Lunch provided by Elon
1:00 PM
Reimagining the Dressage Industry using Design Thinking Part 2: Changing the System
- Presentation on Complex Social Systems Change Approaches and Scaling Change with Dr Danielle Lake
- Brainstorming & Prototyping: Addressing the recommendations about generating complex social systems change
2:30 PM
Closing Remarks
- Workshop wrap up with NCDCTA President, Helen Ingersoll
What is Design Thinking?
Design thinking is the practice of exploring and understanding human behavior and unmet needs in particular contexts to frame problems worth solving, address them systematically and deliver viable new offerings. In considering what design thinking is, it’s useful to point to what design thinking is not. Design thinking is not a recipe. Designers and people who apply design thinking don’t insert problems at one end and have crisp solutions pop out at the other. The path from challenge to solution is messy and usually uncertain. Design thinking is not a problem-solving method. At its heart, it’s about finding the right problems to solve. Design thinking is not learned in quiet isolation. It is a practitioner’s art with a mastery pathway dependent on the interplay among study, reflection, and action.
Design thinking has always been an integral part of the Elon University experience; we just didn’t always know what to call it. Elon faculty and staff have pursued design-related research, curriculum, and activities daily across campus: in classrooms, studios, and even the Maker Hub. Elon 101 professors, as well as Entrepreneurship faculty, had begun to incorporate design patterns into curriculums, and four faculty members worked long hours to deliver the Design Studio for Social Innovation, a 16-unit, team-taught course offered in a studio environment.
Design thinking has always been an integral part of the Elon University experience; we just didn’t always know what to call it. Elon faculty and staff have pursued design-related research, curriculum, and activities daily across campus: in classrooms, studios, and even the Maker Hub. Elon 101 professors, as well as Entrepreneurship faculty, had begun to incorporate design patterns into curriculums, and four faculty members worked long hours to deliver the Design Studio for Social Innovation, a 16-unit, team-taught course offered in a studio environment.
Location:
Elon University
103 W College Ave Elon, NC 27244
103 W College Ave Elon, NC 27244