Whether you are teaching children or adults, or a group or private lesson, you have likely needed to tailor information and skills to your guests. Adaptive tools and techniques are great resources to deepen your knowledge about the way guests move, think, and feel throughout any lesson, not just adaptive lessons! In this session, you will discover how different body types, common mobility challenges, and the ways guests may think or feel throughout a lesson can be addressed through an adaptive lens to create a successful learning environment.

Learning Outcomes:

• Illustrate how the teaching and people skills used in adaptive instruction can be used in all lessons regardless of discipline.

• Show how knowledge of people and teaching fundamentals can be applied to various scenarios

• Explain various techniques and tactics to work with different body types, mobility challenges, emotions, and cognitive abilities

This session is led by Christina Bruno. Christina is a PSIA-AASI National Adaptive Team member who lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. In addition to instructing full time on the mountain, she is a PSIA-AASI Rocky Mountain and Intermountain adaptive examiner. When she is not leading adaptive training, exams, or lessons, you can find her leading women's only ski and snowboard camps in Japan and other countries. During the summer she works as an adventure travel guide for a female only adventure travel company.

In this session, you will learn how to secure and give lessons to higher-ability-level clients. Since female instructors typically end up with many clients who are children or beginners, the speaker will provide guidance on how to counteract that. She will also focus on how female coaches and instructors should approach high-ability male clients and how to troubleshoot certain situations to secure clients' trust and confidence.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain how female instructors can procure high-ability clients

• Outline tips for working effectively with high-ability clients

• Demonstrate how to troubleshoot issues to secure clients' trust and confidence

This session will be led by Emily Lovett, PSIA National Cross Country Team Coach.

In this session, you will learn about different opportunities in the snowsports industry. Panelists will share the path they took, the people who helped them along the way, and the skill sets they learned to succeed in their current position. Each panelist will speak for 30 minutes, including a Q&A session.

Learning Outcomes:

• Outline opportunities in the snowsports industry

• Show the skill sets needed to succeed in the industry

• Demonstrate through a Q&A session how each instructor's journey was unique

This session will be led by:

Katie Brinton - Eastern Alpine Examiner and a senior editor for SAM

Amanda Barnhart - Ski Patrol Director at Laurel Mountain Ski Resort, PA

Lynnea Anderson - Deputy Director of PSIA-AASI West

In this session, you will learn why it's important to see a boot fitter to identify the right boots from the start, for yourself and your clients. In addition, you will receive technical recommendations. Each discipline will be covered, and there will be opportunities for Q&A throughout the session.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the importance of identifying the right boot for your self and your clients

•Outline technical recommendations when choosing the right boot

•Demonstrate the difference good boots can make for each discipline

This session will be led by Amanda Brotman, the boot fitting extraordinaire from Steamboat. She works at Steamboat Ski and Bike Kare.

Make plans now to attend the Women's Virtual Summit. This Virtual Summit virtually brings together women from across PSIA-AASI regions, different disciplines, and professional snowsports associations for online learning and development. Please note that this event contains four sessions over two days. Attend one session to earn 1 CEU. You can sign up for 1, 2, 3 or 4 sessions!

Session 1 starts on February 22 at 8:30am with PSIA-AASI National Adaptive Team Member, Christina Bruno as she illustrates how the teaching and people skills used in adaptive instruction can be used in all lessons regardless of discipline.

Session 2 will be held at 5:30pm that evening with PSIA-AASI National Cross Country Team coach, Emily Lovett, as she outlines tips for working effectively with high-ability clients.

Session 3 begins on February 23 at 8:30am with a panel of three snowsports industry professionals as they discuss diverse career pathways in snowpsorts.

The final session will take place at 5:30pm that evening with Amanda Brotman, the boot fitting extraordinaire from Steamboat, as she explains the importance of identifying the right boot for yourself and your clients in every discipline.

Also, the Women's Virtual Summit serves as a kick-starter event to the on-snow Women's Summit, event and registration details can be found here: Women's Summit - PSIA-AASI (thesnowpros.org). These are two separate events. However, if you'd like to take a deeper dive into the topics discussed at the Virtual Summit, make plans to attend the in-person event in February, too!

Follow this link to register now for the Women's Summit on snow at Solitude: Women's Summit - PSIA-AASI (thesnowpros.org)