Don't waste my time. Learning Labs excels at offering experiences that are engaging for parents and teens that have questions about drugs and alcohol. Discussion is realistic, not preachy and they lead to skills that will be helpful when you need them most. Learning Labs uses active games, great film clips and provocative discussion to make learning a full body experience. Some workshops offered:

(If you don't see what you are looking for, we've made our name by tailoring a workshop to meet your needs.)

  • Decision Making based on your values.
  • Communicating through the tough stuff.
  • Distinguishing between substance use that is life affirming, destructive and dangerous.
  • Exploring Sobriety and the examined life.
  • Thrill Seeking: Creating credible/sober options that don't suck.
  • Media Literacy: Learn the mind games used by advertisers and turn the tables on them.
  • Creating healthy/supportive peer groups that we really want to be part of.
  • Youth activism and various other safe trouble making.
  • Learn how to use drama to reach tough audiences in credible ways.
  • Organizing self help groups that work.

I can't hear that. Theatre Experiences: Learning Labs believes that drug and alcohol training needs to go beyond good conversation and uses drama/theatre experiences to bring the learning to you. The Improvisation For Education Players (called IFE's) are available to push your experience over the top with dramatic performances, role playing workshops and guerilla/street theatre. Get your heart thumping so you will say what needs to be said, you will practice it under realistic conditions and the message can be heard by those who need to hear it most. Learning Labs won't tell you what to think, but they provoke you into thinking about what you think.

  • Performances: IFE can present Springer-like Panels (DWI, Date Rape etc.) that spin out of control and rope the audience in to not just discuss, but experience the topic you want your group to learn about.
  • Role Playing: Go to our keg party and explore the dangers of a beer in a safe way. (Keg video available.) Don't just talk about peer pressure. Use Role Playing to practice how to deal with it. Find ways to let others know what you want and what your boundaries are in ways that are effective, do-able and tailored just for you.
  • Street/Guerilla theatre: Alcohol related events that happen where they need to happen: an alcohol poisoning at a high school dance, a DWI crash on Main Street, a skiing fatality on the slopes, or a drowning at the state park all unannounced so that audience experiences the learning as reality.

He's nuts. Learning Laboratories Founder/Lead Trainer, Duke Fisher is just crazy enough to say it, face it and explore realistic ways to live it. Committed to a sober lifestyle since 1997, Duke will share his story in a humorous, straight forward and often irreverent style that will encourage others to ask their questions and explore their own stories.

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