Presented by Yamin (Indonesia), Kevin Witte (United States), Telyse Masaoay (U.S.) and Ella Rasp (U.S.) during the YSEALI Generation Earth Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

1. The Inspirational and the
Practical in Engaging
Youth for Environmental
Advocacy
• Yamin: Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
• Kevin Witte: Kearney, Nebraska, USA
• Tèlyse Masaoay: Springfield, Missouri, USA
• Ella Rasp: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
April 24, 2015

2. –
Finding Joe (2011)

3. –
™ Yamin
– Environmental Education Practitioner/FOCIL Indonesia Foundation
– Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
™ Kevin Witte
– Social Studies Teacher/Malaika Global Educator/AP World History
Consultant
– Kearney High School, Kearney, Nebraska, USA
™ Tèlyse Masaoay
– Student/AYLP 2014 Singapore/Malaysia Participant
– Springfield, Missouri, USA
™ Ella Rasp
– Student/AYLP 2014 Singapore/Malaysia Participant
– Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Guides on the Hero’s Journey

4. –
™ Establishing the Epic Quest---Becoming the Hero of
One’s Own Story
™ Models of Project Development
™ Small and Large Group Discussion
™ Next Steps, Action Planning, and Conclusion
Workshop Session Plan

5. –
™ “No one can tell you how to live or what
cause to serve, but everyone needs some
cause larger than his or her own profit.
Apathy has no adventures. Cynicism
leaves no monuments. And a person who
is not responsible for others is a person
who is truly alone.”
– President George W. Bush, Commencement Address at
Ohio State University, June 14, 2002
Establishing the Epic Quest

6. –
™ “If you have built castles in the air, your
work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put foundations under
them.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Establishing the Epic Quest

7. What is a Hero’s Journey?

8. –
Universality of the Epic Hero

9. –
Universality of the Epic Hero

10. –
Universality of the Epic Hero

11. –
Universality of the Epic Hero

12. –
Becoming the Hero
in Our Own Story

13. Cultural Vistas staff members served as our Call
to Adventure.
We each found the American Youth Leadership
Program in a different way--through parents,
online,from a previous participant.
Why were we attracted to the program?
The Call to Adventure

14. Traditionally during this phase the hero comes across a seasoned
traveler of the worlds who gives him or her training,
equipment, or advice that will help on the journey. As we met
up in LA, our teacher advisors and experts (Nancy Bruce, Kate
Hoof, Kevin Witte, and Nilam Patel) helped us put together
our knowledge of Singapore & Malaysia from our virtual
exercises. We did group activities, environmental seminars,
and learned what-to-do and what-not-to-do while traveling.
Meeting with the Mentor

15. For many of us it was our first time outside of our home country.
We encountered many new experiences!
Along the way our friendships grew
deeper - rooted in our common interests
and contrasting backgrounds.
As we were learning, we had to rely on
each other for inspiration and support.
Crossing the Threshold

16. –
™ How can the inspirational drive the practical?
™ How can we use the framework of the Hero’s
Journey to inspire young people?
™ How can we use this framework to build a
partnership between people and our planet?
Inspiring Youth

17. –
™ Yamin
™ Ella
™ Tèlyse
Models of Project Development

18. –
From Hero to Heroes !
™ What is the most obvious hero’s characteristic according
to you?
Mr. Amar Ma’ruf,
Environemntal Education
Activist, Founder of FOCIL.
Ld. Wahidin,
Former Leader
Yamin

19. –
12333
Friend of Coastal Region of Small Island of Indonesia
A small group of coastal children to a big urban and coastal
children.
The area of work:

20. –
Models of Project Development:
Advocating the Implementation of Environmental
Education as part of the Local Schools Curriculum.

21. –
Why Environmental
Education?
q “A slow moving but powerful force“
(Senator J. William Fulbright)
q The more educated people are, the more aware
they are, the bigger chance to make difference!
(………..)
q To prevent Vs to cure;
q Schools are Children’s Second Home;
q Passion! Do what you like, Like what you do !

22. –
Simplify The Plan
Environmental
Education
Advocacy
Problems
& Ideas
Partners
and
supports
MeetingsImplemen
tation
Reflection
and
Evaluation

23. –
What happen during the
execution....!
™ Problems and Ideas
™ Looking for partners, and support
™ Socialization
™ Meetings, FGD. Seminars, Workshops
™ Piloting
™ Seminars
™ Teacher Training
™ Legal Letter/Government Decrees
™ Modules
™ Implementation
™ Monitoring
™ Evaluation

24. Kendari&WakatobiThe Journey ...
Ensuring Sustainability and Engagement !

25. The Journey ... Kendari&Wakatobi
Focus Group Discussion with Passionate Teachers:
Addressing some issue on environmental Education
Workshop on Environmental Education Curriculum Development
Teachers participation and engagement are among the keys

26. Kendari&Wakatobi
Pre Piloting
Meeting with the
Education Board,
Selected Schools
Principles.
Result:
Legal Letter to
pilot the subject in
selected both in
Wakatobi and in
Kendari.
The Journey ...

27. Doors to doors Visit.
Teachers’ Working Group !

28. Kendari&Wakatobi
Pre Piloting
Meeting with the
Education Board,
Selected Schools
Principles.
Result:
Legal Letter to
pilot the subject in
selected both in
Wakatobi and in
Kendari.
The Journey ...
Engage and Partner with
Bureaucrats

29. Perjalanan PKPLH Kendari&Wakatobi
KENDARI MAYOR DECREE on Legalizing the Environmental
Education subject called PKPLH (Pendidikan Keterampilan Pengelolaan
Lingkungan Hidup) Kendari Municipal.

30. Perjalanan PKPLH Kota Kendari
Stand at this point, :
Looking back the journey, what have we achieved ???
1. Two of fourteen regions in the province now have their
mayor decrees to of the implementation of EE local
content.
2. Hundred schools in both region have implemented and
learnt the EE as part of their curriculum.
- Wakatobi: Mulok Kelautan.
- Kendari : Mulok PKPLH
3. Thousand students have experienced the outdoor
learning activities as part of the Environmental Education
activities, and design their own project and activities.
4. New heroes are being born and shaped !

31. The journey..
Coral Identification
Wall News Creation
Students and Teachers
Local Forest IdentificationExtra: Journalistic Training
Trash identification Small Recycling Project

32. Perjalanan PKPLH Kota Kendari
Manggrove Planting
Turtle Rescue and Release Coastal Clean UpStudents –local Governmenent
Discussion (City Maintenance
Board)
Greening the City Compost Making

33. Perjalanan PKPLH Kota Kendari
Students Recycling Expo
Students Solidarity in
Supporting Greener City
Pengamatan Terumbu
Karang
Wall News Competition
Teacher Training for
Developing the Subject.

34. Perjalanan PKPLH Kota Kendari
Global Warming
Campaign

35. Perjalanan PKPLH Kota Kendari
Students are involved to green
the city along with the
bireaucrat

36. Perjalanan PKPLH Kota Kendari
Blend them
with nature
Unite them with
the nature

37. –
Youth Engagement !
“Give me 1000 adults, I will pull out the mountain.
I will give me 10 youths, I will shake the world !”
(Ir. Sukarno, Indonesia First President)

38. –
Continued
Share Your Skill
Create any memorable moments

39. –
Reward them….!
1. Send them to workshop, training, etc.
2. .
3. Support them to sharpen their professional and
academic career !
4. Incentive !

40. Conclusions:
1. Plan your project.
You fail to plan your project, you plan too fail
2. Participation.
Ensure the participation others. Respect heir idea, involve, bear them
responsibility.
3. Partnership.
In our Formal Environmental Education, teachers, government, NGO,
are playing important roles to ensure the successfulness and the
sustainability of the project.
4. Engage your friends. Create an emotional bind. Share skills among you,
and provide reward;
5. Hero will always bear other heroes.

41. Singapore and Malaysia had a lot to teach us
about sustainability.
Throughout the program we were developing
projects to bring back to our home
community that included our learning about
culture and sustainability.
Ella - gardenUp: a vertical garden movement
Telyse - environate: youth research non-profit
Post-program projects

42. Sharing the vision - engaging people
Making a plan
Following through - the challenges faced
The Road Back - Ella

43. Sharing the vision - engaging people
Making a plan
Following through - the challenges faced
Finding new direction
The Road Back - Telyse

44. Looking back at the journey
Where we are now - what we’ve gained
The journey ahead
Impact and the continuing path

45. –
™ Group formed to bring water trail and whitewater to the
flatlands of Nebraska
™ Environmental cleanup and awareness are key
components
™ Started with a few individuals, now 2000+ Facebook likes
and 100+ official members
™ Obstacles and aspects of the Hero’s Journey
Models of Project Development:
Kearney Whitewater Association

46. –
From Kearney to
Singapore and Back
From exhibit at Marina
Barage or NEWater in
Singapore

47. –
Scope of the Project

48. –
Project Objectives
• Provide safe ingress/egress landings to the water in numerous areas
• Provide areas for viewing and other streamside activities
• Promote the development of safe paddling skills through instruction,
training and participation in canoeing and kayaking events
• Clear the Tailrace and Turkey Creek
of trash and potential hazards
• Install whitewater features on the
Kearney Hydro tailrace
• Beautify and stabilize the banks
• Restore native plant species and
control invasives
• Promote conservation of local
water resources
• Enhance the City of Kearney and
UNK by making the entire stream
corridor a community park

49. Mobilization
and
Partnerships

50. Clean Up Efforts

51. –
™ Youth Division of Rotary
International
™ Search Rotary, Interact (12-18), or
Rotaract (18-30)
™ KHS group started by student in
2006
™ Student-planned projects have
included:
– Cleanup of a dryland river walk
classroom
– Highway cleanup
– Awareness and fundraising
through sale of Yuda Bands and
Charity Water Project
– Sending students through Rotary
International to Haiti to repair
wells
Models of Project Development:
Kearney High School Interact Club

52. –
™ Who is a hero in your life? What qualities you can learn from him or her?
™ How would you describe your “Hero’s Journey” past, present, and future? What
are the challenges, opportunities, and dreams of this epic story?
™ How have you navigated these challenges in the past and how will you in the
future?
™ What common ground is there between each participant’s “Hero’s Journey”?
What is different?
™ How can you make environmental advocacy and youth engagement a part of
your story?
™ What best practices, partnerships, skills, and tools will you use to achieve your
project goals and dreams?
™ What opportunities are there for youth engagement in your country?
™ How do the cultures of individual ASEAN countries shape the way these projects
and environmental advocacy efforts might take shape?
™ How can your individual understanding of local culture help your environmental
advocacy efforts be more successful?
™ How can this YSEALI Generation Earth Workshop, participants, and leader
mentors assist you in your journey?
Discussion Questions

53. Go out and build castles in the air…
and put foundations under them!