Adventure Challenge

Our Adventure Challenge is a group program for students and works by facing shared challenges and having fun together. They provide incentive and motivation for best performance – and furthermore, a way to encourage personnel development, responsibility and logical thinking within the group. In a safe but different environment then they are used to participants take part in exciting and intensive tasks and find themselves in situations they cannot experience every day. E.g. challenges which rely on an objectively unfounded fear, loss of control or lack of success. Participants create their own experience, and exchange them during the reviews facilitated by the trainers. These experiences are then related and evaluated in the context of everyday life.

There are a huge variety of approaches to Adventure Based Trainings. Here is an example of activities on which our programs are based on.

• Level 1 - The Game (Warm up) - 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. 

• Level 2 - The Session (or Let's Have a Go) - 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 2 hours to a full day.  It may be a one-off session or part of a larger training package.

• Level 3 – Adventure (into the unknown) – A group of students decides to go off-base and into the forest.  They jump in off road jeep and shoot off to jungle camp 70 minutes out of town, where they are met by two fit looking enthusiastic instructors, 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 jeep heading back.  That was fun, wasn't it!

• Level 4 - Pack the Bags, We're Going On a Journey - 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, mate, what are these things they have on the packing list for?  Trekking shoes, black plastic bags, sunscreen and 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 (Go to Tools for Enhancing Corporate Adventure Training).  Mate, I better think about getting some sleep...Extended Adventure based cooperative programs involve multiple days and nights, anywhere from a 2-day rafting trip to a 5-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.

Adventure-Challenge Certificate

This program is one of the first comprehensive training program in  north Thailand. It is targeted at schools, community’s, students, youth and families in a variety of community settings, such as outdoor programming, recreation, education, community safety, corrections, residential treatment, and outreach. The program will provide an essential foundation in adventure-based learning program skills, Leadership/Fellowship, safety, responsibility and natural awareness.

Each participant will be awarded with an Adventure Challenge Certificate for him to keep in good memory what he and his fellows have achieved during his adventure.

Courses can be be run with up to 24 person at a time and are available From Mai until February on request. Contact our office for more details.

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