Join the National Conflict Resolution Center's interactive workshop, The Bystander Challenge Clinic, on March 27th, 2025, to learn how bystanders can become upstanders in addressing inappropriate workplace behavior. Participants will gain practical skills to foster a respectful and inclusive workplace through thoughtful communication, empathy, and intervention techniques.

Park and recreation professionals have the tools and resources to lead localized, anti-racist solutions that advance the multitude of benefits derived from equitable park access and climate-resilient park systems. The Park Access Network is an open community bringing together diverse professionals to facilitate conversations and best practices among peers to drive systemic changes that advance equitable and resilient park access.

NRPA membership hours take place the second Thursday of each month at 1pm ET. Join the membership team for a brief overview of NRPA membership at the top of the hour followed by the opportunity to ask questions about your benefits, getting involved with NRPA and much more. We invite everyone to join!

Join the National Conflict Resolution Center's 4-part interactive workshop, "Culture, Communication, and Conflict"! These clinics equip workplace leaders with strategies to manage conflicts around polarizing issues like politics and remote work. Through interactive sessions, leaders learn how to create a positive, inclusive culture that enhances employee satisfaction and productivity. These clinics will be at 2:00pm EDT every Thursday in February 2025!

Join the National Conflict Resolution Center's interactive workshop, “The ARTful Conversations Clinic”, on January 30th, 2025! Learn how to improve communication by teaching collaborative skills that reduce tension, express perspectives non-confrontationally, and build stronger relationships. Through real-life examples, participants learn to navigate conflict effectively in all settings.

Coming March 2025! Enjoy this session from the NRPA 2024 Virtual Conference! Starting in 2022, Apex Park and Recreation District’s aquatics program went through several changes to help its sustainability, quality and inclusion for all guests. These changes included enacting an 80 percent group lesson and 167 percent private lesson cost-recovery pricing model that allowed for a $3+ increase in wages, requiring all instructors to be certified through the American Red Cross as water safety instructors, creating an aide position to assist with safety and active participation time, and mandating monthly trainings for staff to attend. In July 2022, we started offering adaptive swim lessons for people of all ages with special needs so they could attend lessons with a higher trained swim instructor. In 2023, we enacted more changes and additions that included certifying the adaptive instructors in Swim Angelfish, adding a full-time employee to manage private swim lessons, hosting a water safety instructor trainer academy and starting a non-competitive swim team. With the change to the cost-recovery model, we saw revenue increase 147 percent and 116 percent in back-to-back years. This allows us to help sustain our adaptive programs and our open swim hours through increased revenue.

Coming March 2025! How farmers markets around the United States and park and recreation agencies can work together to create a sustainable market. I plan to cover key aspects to consider when planning a farmers market.

The 2025 Monthly Virtual Learning Subscription includes 12 on-demand education Talks, one per month, and is free to Premier Members. These on-demand talks will be released on the first Monday of the month unless otherwise noted. The full 2025 Monthly Virtual Learning Subscription is worth a total of 1.2 CEU. NRPA's virtual education Talks feature knowledgeable subject matter experts presenting on timely insights from research and practice. Each Talk is worth 0.1 CEU.

Coming February 2025! In this learning product, we will cover the importance of parks and recreation in community well-being, exploring challenges and solutions to foster effective leadership within this sector. We will also delve into adaptability, proactive change leadership, mentorship, and succession planning, all essential for cultivating successful leadership paths in Parks and Recreation.

The Park Champion Initiative is NRPA's signature grassroots advocacy training program that provides members with the information, skills and experience needed to be effective advocates for parks and recreation. This certificate expands on the information included in the Park Champion Initiative – Asynchronistic course to include more robust content!