Our experiential programs for schools are based on the concept
that people learn best through doing. Whether we're working with
students, faculty, or administration, we design all of our
programs to be fun and engaging while meeting specific goals
developed to meet your school's needs. If you're looking for a
program to help guide the direction of your school, also check
out our
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Our Faculty Team Building workshops are designed to help your
staff learn how to work together effectively. We work with our
clients to identify the issues that you would like to be
addressed. We then design a program that provides your group the
opportunity to meet these objectives in a fun, supportive
environment. High and Low Ropes Course activities can be
integrated into a team building program at one of our
locations. We can also bring portable initiatives to you.
Team Building Workshops:
- Improve Performance
- Enhance Communication
- Increase Morale
- Decrease Staff Turnover
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This
training is designed for staff to learn how to facilitate
Adventure Learning groups. Group programs are one of the most
effective tools in working with students, in that students are
more likely to listen to a group of their peers than to
adults. Moreover, being invested in an activity requiring all
members of it's team, a student is more likely to understand how
their behaviors and actions affect others and the group, and are
more apt to work on changing those behaviors.
The typical training for adventure based programming is a
comprehensive 5 day course. The training covers everything from
how to safely facilitate your low and high challenge course, to
facilitating de-inhibitizer activities, new games (for both
large and small groups), trust activities, problem solving
activities and field initiatives.
Also included in this training is the theoretical foundations
of the experiential model, as well as the following topics:
• Contracting
• Goal setting
• Group stages of development
• Briefing/Debriefing activities
• How to handle difficult situations
• and much more....
This training includes a customized training manual the
outlines all of the above topics and includes the name, time,
rules, safety issues and debrief questions for each activity and
element on your course.
Advanced
For the experienced facilitator, we offer a wide range of
advance training. This can range from a formal skill assessment
to a general refresher. With the skill assessment, a custom
training is designed to meet each participant's particular
needs.
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Keeping students active and focused can be challenging. We’ve
put together a curriculum that delivers a host of activities
that we find work very well in recreational programs, classroom
environments, physical education, as well as day programs and
camps. Keeping kids engaged and working together gives them
recreation and social skills that many currently lack or don’t
use. We can provide this training at our site or can pack it up
and deliver it to your site. It also includes a manual that
outlines each of the activities, the rules and the materials
needed to facilitate.
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This program is jam packed with activities that teachers can do
in their classrooms. We have developed a curriculum that assists teachers
in creating a fun approach to education without sacrificing
the content that needs to be presented. The activities presented
help students form a hands-on connection with the material they
are learning about. By making the classroom a safe, positive environment,
classrooms can be a place of excitement as well as learning.
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When you need to get your staff together, for work or fun, we
can help. Want to reward your staff with a memorable, yet
affordable employee function? We can provide the experience that
you want, at your location or ours - Eastover Resort in Lenox,
MA, where we offer comfortable spaces for meetings and
workshops, a full ropes course, and all the amenities of a
resort. Food, lodging, and a full line of activities available
including indoor and outdoor pool, tennis courts, driving range,
horseback riding and more!
Great for:
* District Meetings
* School Retreats
* Staff Picnics
* Reward/Incentive Trips
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These workshops are designed for a group of students working
together with a specific purpose. The students chosen for a
group may have been identified as high-risk, they may have shown
leadership potential, or they may be working together on
project. Programs can be one session, ongoing, or an intensive
series. We will work with your staff and plan an engaging
curriculum based on the goals of the group. Educational
curriculum can be integrated into the group process, so that
students can earn credit for their work. Service-Learning
projects allow these groups to share their strength with the
community through a student-directed community service project.
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Learning to get along and work well with others is an essential
ingredient needed to be successful in most parts of daily
living. Some students lack the basic social skills necessary to
function effectively with others. They may not know the skills,
or may have found that other, maladaptive behaviors, are working
for the moment. In our skills program, we will meet with staff
and choose which skills they would like addressed. We then
design a curriculum using fun games and activities that will
elicit the targeted behaviors, teaching students how to use the
new skill in the situation, and reflecting on it's
effectiveness, and how it can be used in school and home
settings.
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We
use adventure based programming as an experiential approach to
teaching leadership skills. The curriculum includes activities
such as new games, trust activities, communication activities,
problem solving/initiative activities, and low and high ropes
courses. The challenges we provide are
intentionally structured to build on success and achievement
while empowering students to assume responsibility and develop
critical life skills such as leadership, decision making,
problem solving, goal setting, and communication. Fun and
excitement are key components to these types of programs.
Jumping, swinging, climbing, zipping through the woods, walking
across a beam suspended 40' high in the air. These are the tools
that we use to teach leadership.
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In this program we teach a group of students the skills to
become mediators for their peers, who may be experiencing
conflict. Our facilitators will teach the students the process
of mediation including, active listening, brainstorming
solutions, and choosing the best solution for both parties. The
program will place an emphasis on the importance of building a
larger "feelings" vocabulary, and having students be able to
express how they feel other than "mad".
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The effects of bullying behavior can reverberate throughout a
entire school community. This workshop empowers students to
address peer behaviors. Contracting is used to manage behaviors
and the students are challenged to come up with an agreement
that describes what behavior is acceptable and what is not. The
group members are encouraged to speak up whenever this agreement
is not being followed. Due to the fun, engaging nature of the
activities, groups generally get very involved in their tasks,
and will not put up with behaviors that are getting in the way
of them reaching their goals. With the help of our trained
facilitators, the contract, and the support of the group,
students will learn how to address bullying behavior, including
speaking up, and ignoring. While it is the intention of a
"bully" to hurt others, the draw of the activities is extremely
effective in keeping the "bully" engaged enough to listen to the
group feedback, and change behaviors in order to stay involved
in the activities. Through this process, the "bully" learns a
new way of interacting with peers, becomes part of a team that
is accomplishing things, and is finding different ways to feel
good without hurting others.
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