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Sean Mitchell
Program Manager, instructor, and biologist (PhD, RP Bio) at the Natural Resources Training Group (NRTG) in Nanaimo, BC, with 30+ years in fish and wildlife ecology and impact assessment.
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Oct 6, 2026
Episode 42 - Darren Hebert & Sean Mitchell
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Jay WhetterHOST
But I do want to, Sean, before we get to the problem-solving skills, what are your techniques or what are, back to Tobin's aha, how do you... instill confidence like is it is it just a matter of practicing the skills and that that's it or is there is there something you've learned over these seven years that like okay this is making a difference to their confidence
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21:42Sean MitchellGUEST
It's field exercises, minimize time in class, get them out doing things hands-on.
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21:52Sean MitchellGUEST
But also it's, we have the instructors, we choose our instructors very carefully and their goal is to always build the student up.
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22:06Sean MitchellGUEST
It's all, if somebody makes a mistake, You can gently tell them or ask them, how would you do it better next time? Yeah.
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Tobin DickHOST
Is there... is there a way to tell, let's say you, you are, and I don't know how much classroom work the both of you do, but, uh, is there a way to tell that, uh, that a group has walked away transformed by, by a certain, uh, certain session workshop?