Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters

Pete Devine, CIG, and Retired Naturalist with Yosemite Conservancy Talks Story with Tim Merriman

Pete Devine, Certified Interpretive Guide, naturalist, and graduate of Colorado College has had a long career with Yosemite Institute and the Yosemite Conservancy in California. He shares his experiences managing a diverse staff in working with people of all ages to explore Yosemite National Park. He also has led nature tours to Chinaʻs National Parks, sister parks to Yosemite National Park, with Mountain Travel Sobek. 
 
In two weeks Tim Merriman talks story with Karin Hostetter, NAI Master Trainer and interpretive consultant as owner of Interpret This.
 
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Helena Vicic, Managing Director of Interpret Europe Talks Story with Tim Merriman

Helena Vicic serves as Managing Director with Interpret Europe, a professional association for more than 900 interpretive professionals in 57 countries, that mainly serves members through their training program and professional conferences. Helena lives and works from, Slovenia, her national home, privately acting also as an interpretive trainer. 
 
Next week Tim will talk story with Pete Devine, a retired naturalist and adventure guide who led trips to Chinaʻs National Parks and served as Resident Naturalist with Yosemite Institute and Yosemite Conservancy for three decades. He is a Certified Interpretive Guide and graduate of Colorado College. 
 
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Ryan Finchum, CIT, Talks Story with Tim Merriman on Reflections on Interpretation

Ryan Finchum talks story with Tim Merriman this week on Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters. Ryan is Director of the Center for Protected Area Management at Colorado State University, training managers and rangers from Latin America and Africa in good management practices and interpretation. He is a Certified Interpretive Trainer with National Association for Interpretation.
 
In two weeks, Dec. 15, I will talk story with Helena Vicic of Slovenia, who serves as General Director of Interpret Europe. This podcast is changing as of Dec. 1 from being weekly to a bi-weekly schedule. 
 
Join us at Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters at https://timfmerriman.podbean.com/
 
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Kara Garilao, CIG, Talks Story with Tim Merriman About Interpretation in the Philippines

Kara Garilao is an interpretive guide, planner and trainer, who lives and works in the Philippines, talking story with Tim Merriman on Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters. She recently earned the CIG Certificate with Tim Merriman in a Virtual Certified Interpretive Guide Course. Join us on your favorite audio platform. 
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Next week, Nov. 24th Tim will not post a podcast but will return on Dec. 1 talking story with Ryan Finchum, Director of The Center for Protected Area Management at Colorado State University. 
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Tobias Merriman and Tim Merriman Talk Story About AI in Interpretation

Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI are tools that guides and interpreters might reasonably use to improve their tours and talks. Tim Merriman talks story with Tobias "Toby" Merriman, his son, who is Assistant Director of Center for Virtual Expression (CVeX) at Southern Illinois University, a program training professors and students to use AI skillfully. Join them on Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters on your favorite audio platform. Or you may also watch this broadcast with slides and a live demo on YouTube.com. Links follow -
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https://youtu.be/EiJSfw27t4Y
 
Join Tim next week, November 17, when he talks story with Kara Garilao, CIG,  an interpretive guide, planner and trainer in in the Philippines. 
 
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Dr. Lucy Margaret Long, Folklorist and Ethnomusicologist Talks Story with Tim Merriman

Dr. Lucy Long, author of Culinary Tourism, is a folklorist, fiddler, ethnomusicologist and interpreter of food and culture. She and Tim Merriman talk story about food tourism and interpretation on Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters.
 
Next week, November 10, Tim will be talking story with Tobias Merriman, Assistant Director of CVeX at Southern Illinois University, a program to assist professors in application of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. Tim and his son, Toby, will discuss how guides and interpreters might benefit from these new tools. 
 
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Masa Shintani, Trainer and Planner in Asia and Africa, Talks Story with Tim Merriman

Tim Merriman talks story on Reflections on Interpretation with Masa Shintani, a Japanese trainer and planner who has worked in 18 countries in Asia and Africa, helping communities develop ecotourism and learn about interpretive guiding. He also has his own ecotour and glamping company in Fujinomiya, Japan. 
 
Next week, November 3rd, I will be talking story with Dr. Lucy Margaret Long, a professor, folklorist, fiddler and author of Culinary Tourism, who has a new book coming out on interpretation of food and culture. 
 
Join us at Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters at https://timfmerriman.podbean.com/
 
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Maria Elena Muriel, CIT, from Los Cabos, Mexico, Talks Story with Tim Merriman

Maria Elena Muriel, CIT,  is a very talented interpretive guide, trainer and planner who has worked throughout Mexico and Latin America, carrying the banner of interpretation to new audiences of guides and interpreters. She shares her amazing story of being the very first Certified Interpretive Guide with National Association for Interpretation in January of 2000 while guiding tourists to turtle beaches, whales with young, birding Baja del Sur and the mysteries of the night sky. 
 
Next week Tim Merriman will talk story with Masa Shintani, a Japanese trainer who has worked in 18 countries in Asia and Africa, helping communities develop ecotourism and learn about interpretive guiding. 
 
Join us at Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters at https://timfmerriman.podbean.com/
 
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Colby Brokvist, Adventure Guide, Talks Story with Tim Merriman on Reflections on Interpretation

Colby Brokvist, adventure guide, photographer, author of The Professional Guideʻs Handbook and Board Chair of the Polar Tourism Guides Association talks story with Tim Merriman on the podcast, Reflections on Interpretation: Talking Story with Guides and Interpreters. Colby shares his journey as a guide and how adventure guiding in polar regions such as Churchill in Canada is different and requires very specialized training to properly prepare.
Next Friday Tim Merriman talks story with Maria Elena Muriel, CIT, a Mexican interpretive guide from Los Cabos, interpretive trainer and planner who earned the very first Certified Interpretive Guide credential with National Association for Interpretation in 1999. 
Join us on your favorite audio platform at https://timfmerriman.podbean.com/
 
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Jennifer Waithman, CIT, of Queensland Australia Talks Story with Tim Merriman

Jennifer Waithman, CIT, is an interpretive trainer and specialist in Queensland Australia, but originally from the United States, talking story with Tim Merriman. She shares her unique journey in Reflections on Interpretation podcast from interpreting with federal agencies in the Northwest United States to the Sunshine and Fraser Coasts in eastern Australia. 
 
Next Friday, October 13, Tim Merriman talks story with Colby Brokvist, adventure guide, photographer, author of The Professional Guideʻs Handbook and Board Chair of the Polar Tourism Guides Association. 
 
Join us on your favorite audio platform at https://timfmerriman.podbean.com/
 
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