In this episode, we meet the co-founders of Experiential Interpretive Design (EID) -- Bill Reynolds, Lars Wohlers, and Mike Mayer. Collectively, they have many years of experience in interpretation and experience design and bring to EID the experience they gained from various roles in tourism, planning, heritage interpretation, environmental education, and coaching. We learn about the founders, why they started EID Coaching, and discuss what is working in the field of interpretation and what is not working. This is the first installment of a two-part episode. 

In Part 2 of this episode, I sit down with Mike Mayer to learn more about the environmental education program that inspires the work he, Bill, and Lars do at EID. 

LINKS

Experiential Interpretive Design

Métis Crossing

Steve Van Matre

John Ververke

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES SHARED BY THE EID TEAM

Lars Wohlers’ bilingual website about digital evaluation (Visitor Studies)

Expecting Company? Preparing your site for Ag-Tourism! (youtube.com)

Sharing Great Ways to Greet the Guests (Part 1)

Sharing Great Ways to Greet the Guests (Part 2)

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