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We believe in the unlimited potential of the human spirit. When
properly focused, equipped, and enabled, every woman and man can do
remarkable things. Our training workshops and tools are your
resource for unleashing talent, ability, and creativity to achieve
sustained superior performance in your organization and in your
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Sometimes people create mystique about
the "power" of corporate adventure training. This sense
of mystery, or heading into "the unknown" is somehow
meant to enhance the "power of the adventure". Too
often, though, the approach of "trust me, you'll see" is
used by adventure companies and corporate adventure
instructors because they don't really understand or want
to explain their methods.
There are a huge variety of approaches to
corporate training, which can be explained as ranging on
a scale of "adventuresomeness":
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Level 1
- The Game (or Gimmick?) -
10 minutes - One or two
experiential games or exercises are added into a
"normal" training program. e.g., involving throwing
rubber chickens to one another while trying to
remember each other's names or holding hands in
Gordian knot and trying to unravel. This gives the
participants a stimulating and fresh experience.
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Level 2
- The Session (or Let's Have a Go) -
60 minutes - A sequence
of activities, briefings, structured discussions,
etc. is created and delivered for the purpose of
teaching participants a skill or piece of
knowledge. This might involve several
adventure-based activities (such as low ropes
challenge course activities) and have as the goal,
"for members of a new team to get to know one
another in a fun, safe, friendly way". A session
may last anywhere from 30 minutes to a half a day.
It may be a one-off session or part of a larger
training package.
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Level 3
- Adventure, Here We Come, But Not For Long
- 10 hours - An
organization decides to go off-base and into the
woods. They jump in the mini-bus and shoot off to a
ropes course facility 70 minutes out of town, where
they are met by two fit looking enthusiastic
instructors, a male and a female, and before they
know it the participants are deeply immersed in a
day like they've never experienced before, as they
are led by their instructors on an intriguing
journey of excitement, hesitation, learning about
one another, taking on seemingly impossible
challenges, conquering fears, feeling tired muscles,
looking forward to getting home, and then, thank
goodness we're back on the mini-bus heading home.
That was fun, wasn't it!
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Level 4
- Pack the Bags, We're Going On a Journey
- 3 days - Set
auto-replies on your emails, and send out the "I'm
off on staff training this week - somewhere in the
jungle - I'll get back to you next week if I can
still walk and having beaten off the crocodiles"
type messages. Make sure the cat has enough food.
And, geez, what are these things they have on the
packing list for? Thermal underwear, black plastic
bags, sunscreen, spare torch batteries. This is
starting to sound serious, plus they want me to
complete a personality profile and I'm going to be
involved in giving honest feedback to my colleagues
Geez, I better think about getting some
sleep...Extended Corporate Adventure Training
programs involve multiple days and nights, anywhere
from a 3-day rafting trip to a 10-day plus
expedition. The night-time accommodation could be
anywhere from huts or cabins with running water to
sleeping in the open, miles from anywhere. The
physical intensity of the programs will vary, that
generally depends on what kind of approach the
organization requests - it can be anywhere from very
light, with other forms of training or recreation
emphasized through to intense, extreme physical
challenge, such as in corporate adventure racing.
The theory is that by staying together and working
intensely on the issues presented by challenges, far
greater possibilities can emerge for personal and
team development.
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