Deb Kulcsar bio
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Name: Deb Kulcsar
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Wilderness First Responder, AHA BLS; Former EMT-B. Earned the following certifications: Certified Interpretive Guide through Yellowstone Association Institute, Leave No Trace Trainer, ACA Canoe Instructor, WSI, AMGA Climbing Wall Instructor, ACCT Level 1 Challenge Course as well as many certificates of completion in courses and workshops ranging from emotional intelligence, effective communication, team building, youth development, science education, extensive commercial vehicle15 passenger van safety, risk management, experiential pedagogy and more.
About Me: Deb has worked in the field of education since 1978. Her passions include connecting youth with the natural world through wilderness experiences, developing and facilitating outdoor education programs on trails, challenge courses and school yards, working with high school youth eager to graduate high school and mentoring/teaching young adults entering the outdoor teaching field. She is eager to share her experience with Red Rocks Community College students and to support the Outdoor Education/Park Ranger program.
From her early days working with inner city Cleveland Ohio, Deb has amassed broad experience in developing and implementing unique educational programs blending science content, wilderness adventure and community. Deb’s teaching experience spans kindergarten science through master’s level teacher education including a graduate advisor stint at Prescott College. With her partner/husband Deb co-founded the CU (Boulder) Science Discovery Wilderness Camp Program in 1989 which flourished for 23 years. The Wilderness Camps offered multi-day overnight trips blending informal science, community and adventure to federal and private wilderness locations such as Yellowstone, Olympic NP, Mt Rainier NP, Arches, Bandelier, Buena Vista, Mission: Wolf and more.
Deb is a NOLS, Project Adventure, Outward Bound and Outdoor Leadership Training Seminar alum. She owns her own company, Experiential Learning Associates, with her husband of 28 years. They develop and deliver informal science and classroom adventure programs such as multi-day overnights and day long winter ecology snowshoe days. Deb loves her contract work with various outdoor organizations and is a lead ropes course facilitator at West Pines Training Center in Wheat Ridge where she thrives working with schools, corporate, community and international clients.
Courses Taught: Challenge Course Facilitation, Wilderness Ethics, Outdoor Leadership
Hobbies: Spending time in the outdoors hiking, walking, guiding groups, leading classrooms in outdoor programs. Over the years I have loved mountain biking, skiing, snowshoeing, backpacking, rafting, climbing and being on the beach in Mexico. I love my work…my work is my hobby, too, because I’m with people in the outdoors grateful to be able to enjoy each day! ☺
Favorite Quotes: So many
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." – Emerson
''I learned early in life that the richness in life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement." – William O. Douglas
