Adventure Education
Saint Joseph College
Experiential Education, Adventure Education, Teambuilding, and Challenge Ropes Course
Play, Trust, Learn
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Description
Adventure Education at Saint Joseph College is a unique experiential program, which is an integral piece to the signature Saint Joseph College experience. It is dedicated to the principle that the participant develops self-confidence, self-awareness, and concern for others when confronted with challenging, shared experiences. When these experiences are shared, they become tools for the participants to use while building trust, developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, communication and conflict resolution skills, group cohesion, and teamwork.
Activities are thoughtfully sequenced to; engage the body and the mind, energize the group, develop confidence and unity within the group, celebrate the group's strengths and weaknesses, encourage reasonable risk-taking in a fun atmosphere.
On an operational level, Adventure Education assumes that participants have more resources than they realize to cope with significant mental and physical challenges. A shared adventure is an important catalyst in the discovery process to which significant, long lasting learning can be achieved through an intensive short- term experience.
Challenge Ropes Course
Our Challenge Ropes Course is designed to elicit a sense of adventure, suspense, and fun through a variety of experiential activities using the Adventure Education model.
Participants will be encouraged to go beyond their perceived boundaries within a supportive group environment as they encounter a merging of intellectual, social, physical, and emotional types of learning.
The Saint Joseph College Challenge Ropes Course has seventeen low elements, which require no safety equipment other than the care of your group members, and ten high elements, which require the participants to use climbing equipment and are belayed by highly trained experiential educators.
Team-Building Tools
- Ice breakers
- De-inhibitizers
- Communication-building activities
- Trust-building activities
- Personal safety and spotting
- Group problem-solving initiatives
- Non-traditional games
- Climbing equipment and knots
- Low-challenge course elements
- High-challenge course elements
Saint Joseph College
Ropes Course Usage Fees
For further information, please contact:
Mike Gessford - 860.231.5749 or mgessford@sjc.edu
or
Justin McGlamery - 860.231.5790 or jmcglamery@sjc.edu.
