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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.

Oct 6, 2026

21:17
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
21:42
It's field exercises, minimize time in class, get them out doing things hands-on.
21:50
That's where the conference comes from.
21:52
But also it's, we have the instructors, we choose our instructors very carefully and their goal is to always build the student up.
22:01
And so there's no shaming.
22:03
There's none of the traditional ways of teaching.
22:06
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.

16 MINS LATER

38:22
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?

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