Your Name | Kaitie Worobec |
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Email Address | kaitie.worobec@gmail.com |
Cohort Assignment | Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in the Bay Area, California, Fall-Winter 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | My primary work is supporting tourism stakeholders to embrace a regenerative and low-carbon approach to tourism. I work with destination organizations and tourism operators primarily in North America, but also in New Zealand and the South Pacific. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I see my role as capacity building and also helping to design processes to help places lessen the negative impacts of tourism and realize their full potential. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | My goal is to build out my practice around regenerative approaches to tourism and how this intersects with climate action. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | I want to better understand my own thinking and assumptions and become more confident in working with complex systems. |
5. And for professional growth? | I want to grow my ability to engage clients and partners in regenerative development and apply systems frameworks. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have invested in learning from thought leaders and I've spent time reading about how a regenerative approach can be applied to tourism. I've also taken a previous online course on regeneration and design thinking through the Tourism CoLab. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | I've appreciated learning from thought leaders such as Bill Reed, Michelle Holliday and Anna Pollock. I also enjoy seeing regenerative approaches to tourism in practice, through places like Fogo Island and Playa Viva. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I'm not sure I have a clear philosophy/cosmology of life, however I do appreciate the Indigenous world views that speak to humans as "stewards" or "guardians" and that all living things are interconnected. |
Date Created | August 27, 2024 |