The Audience Centered Experience (ACE) approach to interpretation allows parks to gain skills in critical thinking, problem solving, innovation, global awareness, and scientific literacy.

Participants will gain and use knowledge of diverse audiences to shape the development of an array of opportunities for audiences and visitors to connect with meanings.

Essential Questions based on thematic relevant ideas enable interpreters to better engage modern visitors and encourage connections to site resources.

This handout helps explain the four phases of the Arc of Dialogue model of interpretation, moving interpreters through each phase.

This worksheet is designed to help field rangers brainstorm, craft and revise dialogic interpretive experiences.

Explains the components of facilitated dialogue and includes a suite of techniques interpreters can use to elicit audience input and expression.

This lesson helps participants define engagement techniques, audience centered techniques, and facilitation methods, and develop their own ACT toolboxes.

The outlined sessions may be used to construct training which introduces staff to the concepts of personal bias and increasing their emotional intelligence.

An introduction for staff to the three-fold goal of interpretation and helps staff imagine how their interactions with visitors helps support these goals.