good2Great. Adventure Learning

Why adventure?
Adventure offers the opportunity to operate in any a number of beautiful wilderness locations experiencing a fast paced environment characterised by rapid change and manageable risk. The power of adventure learning is great, with experiences ranging from a half day to 2 weeks.

Previous participant's adventures have helped them to:
• Recapture that ‘grand final’ feeling of accomplishment we feel when an adventure is successfully completed
• Develop skills and strategies required to build or enhance relationships
• Reinforce the importance of achieving individual stretch goals
• Remind them of the importance of health and fitness rituals in their lives
• Feel refreshed, reinvigorated and refocused on what is truly important

Definition: “Ad-ven-ture: moving into the unknown; a bold enterprise with an uncertain outcome; a remarkable and exciting experience….What better word to describe our personal and professional lives as we begin this new millenium? The adventure classroom is designed to simulate the real world of uncertainty, unpredictability and perpetual change in which we work and live.”

Focusing on the areas of physical and mental toughness our programs are designed using our adventure grading system. This ensures that your trip is matched to your ability and expectations.

Choose your level and choose your adventure. Our system works like this:

White Belt
Introductory level programs for all levels of experience and fitness

Yellow Belt
Intermediate level programs for individuals of moderate fitness. No adventure experience necessary.

Green Belt
Intermediate level programs for individuals of moderate fitness, some fitness or skills training may be necessary prior to departure

Brown Belt
Advanced level programs that require individuals to qualify / pass testing for fitness and skill requirements prior to departure

Black Belt
Customized adventure programs where previous completion of a Brown belt program is a pre-requisite

Your Adventure Program

Preparation
Once you have chosen your adventure you will be contacted by our Client Services Manager, who will step you through your administrative preparation. You will also receive a preparation guide specific to your chosen adventure. This document will explain the way to maximise your training and administrative preparation for your experience. Then over an agreed period physical and skills based preparation programs, customized to your personal needs, are conducted in your state.

Adventure
Providing all specialist equipment, administration, safety and administration our team of experts personally lead your chosen adventure.

Follow Up Services
• Our adventure follow up includes access to:
• Therapeutic care and advice
• Physical Recovery Sessions
• Compilation and distribution of the group’s digital and video
• Advice on how to keep alive the mental, emotional and physical momentum created in your life

The Power of Adventure Learning

Experiential: Our corporate adventure training programs are based on an experiential model. The basic beliefs underlying this model are: (1) You are your own best teacher, and (2) People learn best from experience – and from reflecting on experience to gain insights for personal, professional and team development. While we will introduce you to a number of leading-edge theories and concepts, our primary goal in these programs is to create an environment where you will discover and create for yourself your own outcomes. Through your experience in our programs you will create your own powerful model of effective self development, leadership and teamwork.

The action / reflection process: In today’s organisations, most of us focus our energies on "acting" and "doing" in order to get the job done within restricted time frames and limited resources. We find little - if any - time for reflection. Warren Bennis, author of "On Becoming A Leader", notes however, that reflection may be the pivotal way in which leaders learn: “Reflection is a way of making learning conscious.
Reflection gets to the heart of the matter, the truth of things…'.

Reflection permits us to process our feelings, understand them, resolve our questions, and get on with our work." Action is essential for "getting the job done" – but practicing the skill of reflection is what takes us to the next level of leadership and teamwork. In our programs you will sharpen your reflective skills - individually & collectively - to reap the greatest benefit from all of your life/work experiences. You will also practice the balance between action and reflection, between doing and being – a balance that is translatable back to your everyday world.

Play: So what do such activities as sailing, climbing, canoeing, playing games or doing a ropes course have to do with personal, professional or team development? Are not such activities simply recreational endeavors or "play"? Peter Senge, the world’s foremost champion for "learning organisations" notes that "learning often best occurs through ‘play’, through interaction in a transitional medium where it is safe to experiment and reflect…'.
When a team goes whitewater rafting or engages in some other outdoor team-building exercise, they are creating a microworld to reflect on and improve the way they work together." How you approach abseiling off a cliff, climbing a mountain, sailing a boat, playing a simulation game – provides a mirror for how you and your team approach other challenges back in the "real world".

Through astute observation of yourselves and how you interact with one another during adventure activities – and through a process of reflection & discussion afterwards – you gain significant insights for application at work. Skillful facilitation by belief’s seasoned facilitators turns each adventure activity into a powerful learning and development opportunity.

Outdoors: The out-of-doors environment is "wild". It is uncontrollable, constantly changing, and it is far from the routine of our daily lives. This is it’s power in serving as a catalyst for breaking up habitual patterns of thinking and behaving while stimulating new perspectives and new ways of being – both personally and professionally. Outside the bounds of your office, your home, your everyday world – you become energised to recreate yourself and then return to your world on a new bearing.