11:15 am – 12:30 pm
From Hesitation to Action: Building Advocacy Confidence in Museums
WMA2025_471
Learning Format: Active Learning
Nevertheless, she/they/he persisted: strategies for staying the course in turbulent times
WMA2025_501
Learning Format: Conversation
Reciprocal and Transactional Relationships
WMA2025_461
Learning Format: Conversation
What is the difference between reciprocity and transaction? This session explores how these approaches to developing relationships can effect everything from the project planning, community engagement, to staff satisfaction.
Beyond the Refrigerator Magnet: Brand Strategies that Fulfill Promise
WMA2025_512
Learning Format: Active Learning
Elevating Your Mindset in Collections
WMA2025_432
Learning Format: Conversation
Elevating Your Mindset in Collections will dive into the benefits of maintaining collections for the public as well as ourselves. Collections staff work hard and are passionate, but many times behind the scenes work is overlooked and under appreciated (even unintentionally so). The Registrars Committee Western Region wants to bring some joy back into the work we do and celebrate our wins, big and small.