Lisa Murphy, MEd. created Ooey Gooey Inc. (originally The Learning Through Adventure Company) in 1997 in order to bring high-energy, informative, meaningful, exciting seminars and workshops to the early childhood educational community. And since conducting her first workshop (at a small preschool in San Diego for 15 teachers, where it took her 2 hours to set up and 2 mini-vans to haul all the materials) to some of her recent events in auditoriums that hold 5,000 , she now spends about 300 days a year on the road doing workshops and conferences both domestically and internationally.