Testimonials

"Jeff, Thank you for all your hard work and leadership in behalf of our profession." - Sam Ham, University of Idaho

 "Jeff, you change lives through interpretation." - Ted Cable, Professor of Recreation Resources, Kansas State University

 "Fascinating and useful approach to themes. I'm a big fan of one sentence themes whenever possible, but this approach seems like a more user friendly approach for introducing the idea. Nice work!" - Jim Covel, Monterey Bay Aquarium & NAI President

"A new framework for me, very effective. Something I will use in training." - Sara Howlett, Interpreter II, California State Parks

"So helpful - I plan to use in a new program." - Mary Berger, Park Interpreter, Santa Clara County Parks

"I attended Jeff's informative workshop on how to create themes for interpretive media. His theme building ideas continue to inform my work as interpretive display designer, artist and text writer. His teaching manner inspires me to also train my clients to think more precisely about how to make concepts into themes. In this way, his work is spreading far afield, and interpretive media is getting better!" - Erica Fielder, Erica Fielder Studio

"Jeff, I can't tell you how helpful your theme building session has been for me as I work on my CCFoodie.com site. I'm so excited to have lots and lots of ideas for content and a good theme framework to nest them in to. Thanks!" - Rachel Duchak, Language Artisans and Central Coast Foodie

"This was an excellent way to organize thoughts and create themes to flesh out content for in my case, interpretive signs, panels and waysides. Thank you!" - Holly Reed, Partner, Wildways Illustrated

"Jeff's presentation provided the perfect model for what good interpretation should be. He offered lots of examples, clear explanation, and stories that were personal, funny, and illustrative of his points. Jeff listened to what participants had to say, tailoring his presentation to our needs. Overall, this session was extremely helpful. full of practical, useful information that I can put to use immediately."  - NAI 2010 National Workshop Las Vegas, NV Participant

"Themes ... it finally all clicked. Thank you Jeff. Well done." - NAI 2010 National Workshop Las Vegas, NV Participant

"Fantastic presentation, explanation of theme process and the worksheets rocked. This was great information. Thanks." - NAI 2009 National Workshop Hartford, CT Participant

"Simple and efficient way to start a hard task, loved the worksheets, great presentation and audience participation." - NAI 2009 National Workshop Hartford, CT Participant

"Those handouts and your system are just what we needed to help with training front line staff. Great presentation. Enjoyed your stories and pictures too." - NAI 2009 National Workshop Hartford, CT Participant

"A simpler and more useful approach than state parks showed us." - NAI 2009 National Workshop Hartford, CT Participant

"Great job. Jeff makes this hard task seem simple with just a little though and effort. This was useful to me in my work. Thanks for taking time to walk through this and have is actually practice it." - NAI 2009 National Workshop Hartford, CT Participant

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