Program History

The program began in 1991, offered through the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The first workshop, held at Treehaven Field Station near Tomahawk, filled to capacity with over 100 participants. This successful program, founded by Dr. Christine Thomas, has become popular in more than 40 states, several Canadian provinces and New Zealand.

Today, Wisconsin's BOW program is still going strong, and we still hold multi-course workshops twice a year at Treehaven Field Station as well as Beyond BOW events almost every month! 2010 will mark our 20th Summer Workshop in Wisconsin, and with the response we get from our participants, we expect this is only the beginning!

Email Appeal

 We are always in the process of updating our database. Most of our communication is by
email for reasons of speed, efficiency, and finances. However, we have many people on our contact list for whom we don't have current email addresses. If you haven't gotten any email from us in the last few months, you might be one of these people. Contact us here with
your most current email and other contact information (including what state you're from)
so we can keep you in the loop!

If you've never been on our mailing list, but would like to be added, you also should contact us.