Took my first workshop (LF, 1985) from Bruce Barnbaum, Harrison Branch and jay Dusard out in Page, Arizona. After that, back in the days when the Friends of Photography Workshops were going strong down in Pebble Beach, etc, I managed to get a couple scholorships to attend their workshops. Made myself useful and was able to be a workshop assistant for them for many years. Helped out with an Owens Valley Workshop, a camping up the Oregon Coast workshop thru the Sunset Center in Carmel and a couple through PhotoCentral in Hayward...and just got back from teaching one (carbon printing) with PhotoCentral.
All great experiences -- highly recommend workshops to any and all. I work for a university, taking care of their teaching darkroom and photo program as a whole (through the Art Department) -- so while I do not actually teach a class, I do a lot of one-on-one teaching to students who come to me...teaching on any level is the best way to learn. Just being around a bunch of great students is motivating and educational. I taught photography to 12 teenagers this summer -- that definitely kept me on my toes!
It would be fun to take a workshop again -- to be able to kick back and let someone else run the show. To just do nothing but learn, photograph and share. It would have to be a LF workshop of some kind -- where everyone is moving at LF speed in some outdoor setting. No way am I going to do a workshop designed for tiny cameras (35mm or digital) and try to keep up lugging 60 pounds of equipment!
Vaughn