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Buckeye Leadership Workshop (BLW) is an interactive learning and sharing workshop dedicated to the idea that education through recreation is a very effective learning tool.  BLW provides a powerful learning environment in which anyone who works with people, professionally or on a volunteer basis, can develop programming for groups of all ages.  One of the unique characteristics of BLW is participants are given the opportunity to teach as well as learn.

For BLW 2012 we are pleased to bring in a BLW alumni as our guest presenter.  Jim Cain will be at BLW 2012 for the entire 4 days.  A bit more about Jim:

Dr. Jim Cain is the author of five adventure-based teambuilding texts, including the award winning book Teamwork & Teamplay, which received the Karl Rohnke Creativity Award presented by the Association for Experiential Education, The Book on Raccoon Circles, A Teachable Moment, Teambuilding Puzzles and Essential Staff Training Activities. He is a Senior Consultant to the Cornell University Corporate Teambuilding Program, a former Executive Director for the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) and the creative force behind his training company, Teamwork & Teamplay. He holds four college degrees including a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester. Dr. Cain frequently serves as a visiting professor on subjects ranging from teambuilding and experiential education using adventure-based activities to corporate culture and leadership. He is the innovator of more than three dozen teambuilding activities and props, and has presented more than 500 programs in 44 states and 12 countries in the past decade.

In addition to his adventure-based activities, Jim is also an accomplished square dance caller, guitarist, boomerang maker, engineer, researcher, author and generally has more books in his library than many developing nations.