Tuition:  $80
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The vast majority of challenge courses around our country have been built for the purpose of working with kids, and are housed within not-for-profit organizations.  These organizations, always in need of finances, determine to use their resources in the corporate community.  

Does your organization fit into that category?  If so, then you may have had a potential client tell you that their company did teambuilding on a ropes course and it didn’t do anything, or you may be running the same program for adults that you do for the kids at camp, or the school coming out for a day.  Have you ever had difficulty explaining to a prospective corporate client why you, whose mission is kids, can offer something meaningful for them?  

If so, bring a copy of your organization’s mission and discover if your organization is meant to move from kids to the corporate arena.

Those attending this session will:

• Understand their organizations’ mission as it pertains to this topic,
• Evaluate their program,
• Understand themselves and their motivation
• Understand their clients
• Gain a few hints on how to ready themselves for the corporate client.

Dave Vermilye is owner of Edgeline Resources LLC.  Dave spent 25 years working in the not-for-profit sector.  Most of those years were focused on experiential learning of some kind.  From 1995-2006, Dave managed an experiential training and development arm of a non profit.  He has been working with adult and corporate clients for nearly 15 years.  In January of 2007, Due to mission differences, Dave embarked on his own business.  His first year of business on his own has been profitable, and he lives in Michigan.
 

Tuition:  $80
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Facilitation is an art, an ever dynamic process of give and take, learning and development. In this workshop we will explore the art of experiential facilitation by experimenting with creative yet practical tools and activities to enhance group experience. In a co-creative, engaging learning environment participants will develop innovative ways to support the process of group development and become more participant centered. Participants will gain new perspectives on their role as a facilitator and gather activities and ideas they can use to liven up their practice.

Whether you are new to facilitation or a seasoned veteran seeking inspiration, there is something in this workshop for you.

• New twists on opening and closing activities
• Ideas for setting the tone: creating a positive environment for learning
• Ways to facilitate ownership and involvement in the group experience
• Ideas for cultivating teachable moments throughout the learning experience
• Engaging processing tools and techniques
• Techniques for becoming “participant centered” and empowering participants to take control of their learning
• Tools and tips for assessing groups and dealing with challenging group situations
• Activities to tie it all together and create meaning and opportunities for future learning

Jen Stanchfield MS of High 5 Adventure Learning Center of Brattleboro, Vermont has 17 years of experience in the experiential education field as an educator, recreational therapist, and trainer of challenge course professionals.  Jen is well known for her work in developing and sharing facilitation tricks, tips and reflective tools to practitioners.  She is author of the Association for Challenge Course Technology’s (ACCT) newsletter byline “Facilitator’s Toolbox”, she is co-author of A Teachable Moment: A Facilitator’s Guide to Activities for Processing, Debriefing, Reviewing, and author of the newly released book Tips and Tools for the Art of Group Facilitation. Jen earned her undergraduate degree in recreational therapy and outdoor education at the University of New Hampshire and holds a graduate degree in experiential education from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Tuition:  $80
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 

(1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)

“Handy Day”

Presented By:  Karl Rohnke

How about half a day with Karl Rohnke, picking and playing games and doing initiatives that requires only the use of your hands, and calling that a "Handy Day", or , "Half-a-Handy Day" to be precise!

It's true, we'll spend four hours doing and talking about only non-prop activities that require just a hand, and sometimes two. Some of the activities are classics, easily recognizable, but some, I'm pretty sure you will not have seen or tried, (I recently made them up).

Funn is obviously foremost, but I'd be disappointed if you didn't learn a thing or two.

Karl Rohnke graduated from Washington & Lee University (Lexington, VA) in 1960. After two drafted years in the U.S. Army, serving as a Medical Technologist, he used that medical training to secure a postion as a Med. Tech at a retirement community in California. This was followed by four years of teaching outdoor education in the Southern California area. Since that time, Karl has been an important "player" in the field of experiential/adventure education. He was a watch officer at Hurricane Island Outward Bound in 1967, and chief instructor at North Carolina Outward Bound until 1971. He left Outward Bound to become one of the founders of the Project Adventure program in Hamilton, MA, and worked there continuously until 1996. During his tenure at PA, he served as director and president of the company. Karl is also one of the founders of The High 5 Adventure Learning Center in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Karl has been the recipient of two A.E.E. (Association of Experiential Education) awards: The 1990 Stratton Practitioner's Award, and in 2000, he presented the Kurt Hahn Address at the national A.E.E. convention. Karl has written over 15 books that relate to the field of adventure education, including The Bottomless Bag Revival, Silver Bullets, Quicksilver, and Funn 'n Games.  Karl says he's retired but continues to travel worldwide presenting clinics about the use of games and initiative problems as applied to various pedagogic applications.  http://karlrohnke.com/

Hours:  1:00 pm – 5:00 pm                

If you want to be a more effective program leader, this is for you!  Whether you work with intact organizational teams, young people, or a loose-knit group of individuals, this framework can be applied easily to increase your effectiveness with any group.  This has stood the test of time having been observed consistently for thousands of years.  At the same time it is congruent with almost every current personality framework in use. 

At this program you will learn how you can immediately apply this simple, yet powerful framework in your work.  It will help you understand your operating style preferences and those of your participants’.  Knowing this allows you to make the most of your own unique talents while matching them to the varying needs of different groups.  At the same time, it is a framework that can be passed on to your participants since it is easy enough to be understood by all groups.  An added bonus is that this knowledge will help you understand and communicate more effectively with others on your own work team as well as with potential customers.
 
The session is lively and interactive and you will have ample opportunity to share with and learn from other participants.  Numerous applications of this framework include leadership, teamwork, stress, and learning/teaching styles.  The bottom line, you will be able to help your groups achieve better results immediately.

Join us and be prepared to enjoy yourself while learning a powerful tool that you can begin to apply the very same day.  

Craig Rider is President of The Rider Group, Inc., a human resources consulting firm specializing in organizational team building, retreat facilitation, and individual coaching.  He is qualified, trained, and experienced in using a wide variety of assessments and in incorporating action learning into his processes.  Craig’s 20+ years of consulting has included an extremely wide range of experiences with many types of industries.  Clients include adventure centers, architectural firms; professional services; public relations; financial; human and animal services; warehousing; manufacturing; hospitality; public, private, and higher education; retailing; transportation; recreation; and military organizations, to name a few.  

Combining the power of experiential learning with the saving grace of Jesus Christ to provide a truly life changing experience.

God created the world for people to experience and learn!  Just as it takes a good facilitator to help bring meaning to an experiential activity, it also takes a good facilitator to bring meaning to the Scriptures!  In this workshop you will be given the tools to bring the Scriptures alive for you and for the groups you will be facilitating. 

When you attend this workshop you will:

• have hands on experience – or seen demonstrated over 20 activities,
• have activities that make the Scriptures come “alive” for you and your participants
• learn specific scriptures to use with specific activities
• have the opportunity to network with other Christian facilitators.
  

You will take away from this workshop:

• a greater appreciation of how powerful a toll experiential learning and the Scriptures can be,
• activities that you can start using immediately,
• a hand-out of all the activities including the appropriate Scripture references.
• Hopefully with a renewal of your heart for experiential learning and the Scriptures.

Dick Hammond formed Leadership On The Move! because of his desire to incorporate experiential learning with leadership development. He has years of experience in leadership training as participants, program coordinators, facilitators, and trainers. Dick has extensive training in leadership development, experiential training, and simulation games.  Dick, in association with Adventure Resources, is a coach and trainer for individuals who are interested in becoming Challenge Course Facilitators. 

For more information visit: http://leadershiponthemove.com/

Have you ever……booked a really large group and needed some openings, challenging activities and peak experiences? 

Have you ever…… had a group return after repeated visits and they requested something new? 

Have you ever…… had a group that did not want to “climb things” and really wanted the relationship building and highly interactive challenges? 

If you answered “YES” to any of these questions and you are still reading….keep reading!

Mega Team is a full-day workshop that brings together some amazing facilitators and practitioners to share a series of large group initiatives that can produce both great achievement in terms of learning objectives as well as tremendous peak experiences.  

Together we will focus the skills and experience of these presenters to provide this amazing experience.

For our day together, we will travel to a site in Boulder and spend our day outdoors.  On site we will form a number of small groups of 8–12, to journey through the day together and also spend plenty of time building our new “Mega Team”. 

Join us for fun, new activities, new adaptations and a chance to explore facilitation, outdoors with a big group of passionate peers.

Full list of facilitators will be announced soon.