Colorado Advancing Environmental Education Conference

Informal environmental educators are some of the best people you'll ever meet. Unfortunately, the very same qualities that support that claim also leave many informal educators vulnerable to burnout, demoralization, and exploitation. There's good news, however; the work that you love doesn't  have to hurt you. By learning about the causes, symptoms, and differences between burnout, demoralization, and  exploitation, informal educators can empower themselves to embody healthier, more fulfilling relationship to their  work. What's more, when this framework is used to understand formal teacher collaborators, it can support building  effective partnerships more easily and enduringly.