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.