Weekly Chat
Arctic Exploration is the topic of the Weekly Chat for Module 01 during the weeks 2 and 3
Background: Could you carry your house, food, cooking utensils, clothing, and everything else that you might need to live and survive? Well, GoNorth! explorers do—and for weeks at a time, too! Join members of Team GoNorth! for the first team chat before they hitch up the mighty Polar Huskies and head out on the trail (last chance to get the latest scoop from the dog yard).
Keeping the eye and mind on the goal is a must to the success of GoNorth! An enormous amount of energy, effort, resources, planning, and preparation goes into a GoNorth! expedition—in the Expedition Basecamp as well as at Education Basecamp and even across the borders of many countries. The cumulative efforts of a team greatly outweigh those of an individual. Group cohesion and positive interaction often inspire a team to achieve far greater goals than what would be possible for just one person.
The more time teammates spend together, the better they will be able to understand each other's strengths and weaknessess. Each one of us perceives the world from our own unique perspective. Interests, opinions, and thoughts are usually very different from one individual to the next. Therefore, when working within a group, it is important to consider each person when thinking about the whole, and to recognize the goals of others.
Whether we realize it or not, most of us have goals. Goals come in many different shapes and sizes. Some may be big, others small, some may be long-term and others short-term. Webster's dictionary defines a goal as "an aim or purpose." Goals can more easily be defined, however, as something that we wish to achieve. To set a goal means to begin a process in which all efforts are evaluated as to their relative importance in our lives.
Transcripts
Past Weekly Chats
are available to
read or watch!
Arctic Exploration
March 1, 2007
w/Mille Porsild
Arctic Exploration
March 6, 2007
w/ Mille Porsild and Aaron Doering
Arctic Exploration
March 7, 2007
w/ Mille Porsild and Aaron Doering
Some questions to possibly open the discussion with!
Name one place that you would like to explore. Why?
What is the most important characteristic of an explorer?
What advice would you give to an astronaut visiting a planet in a distant galaxy for the first time? What mistakes of past explorers would you not want to repeat?
