Luffenholtz Beach, Trinidad, CA

Photo by Steven Glazer

Poetics of Place:  Connecting People & Places

Steven Glazer offers a wide range of educational programs and consulting services. He can travel to your community to conduct training workshops, or mentor you or your organization as you envision, implement and refine your educational programs &/or materials. Steven can also help facilitate your meeting or retreat.

Creating Quests
As an interpretive tool/ program or special event. Examples include: Vermont History Expo Quest and Preservation Trust of Vermont
Training in the Questing process
Via workshops, teacher in service trainings, or scholar-in-residence program. Examples:Ski Vermont's Nordic Quests Program ,KQED PBS/San Francisco Watershed Quest , Muir Woods
Mentoring to help you build an entire quest program
Quest Program mentoring includes training, curricula, publication(s), and website. See Quest Martha's Vineyard, or Pisztrankor
Cemetery Restoration Project: Bearing Witness to Genocide
Steve organizes and leads 2 week travel/study and community service projects in Eastern Europe. He has worked with Dartmouth students on Project Preservation in Ukraine, Kosovo and Poland.
Curriculum Development
Click to see several examples of curricula Steve has developed
Teaching classes and workshops
Steven teaches master's level courses for the Heritage Studies program at Plymouth State University in the spring; and five day Quest workshops each summer through the Department of Education at Antioch New England Graduate School. He can also teach for your institution.
Facilitating meetings and retreats
During the summer, Steven facilitates week-long Whole Thinking retreats at the Center for Whole Communities in Fayston, VT.
Guided Field Trips/Storytelling
Steve has led dozens of groups on short and long forays into nature, culture, history, and hidden stories; and offers programs for school and public libraries.
"Steven is a profound listener, remarkably aware and keenly sensitive to individual as well as group dynamics. Utilizing these skills he orchestrates powerful and meaningful results for each person as well as the entire group. "
- Kim Coble, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation