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The facilitation links below are organized into eight sections and listed alphabetically within each section. If you would like to suggest a link. There is a "submit site" link below.

Facilitation - Various methods, techniques, resources, and tools to help you grow your skill as a facilitator.

Activites - Collections of games, activities, and initiatives.

Experiential Education - resources for further study, trade orginizations, etc.

Team Building Supplies - Raw materials for the facilitator. Items to fill your games bag, bookshelf, and toy bin.

Challenge Courses - Highs, lows, and other courses.

Team Building Companies - Offering a variety of encounters, outings, or activities for building group cohesion.

Schools - Schools that offer experiential, outdoor, or other related degrees.

Training - Companies or organizations that offer training programs in areas related to facilitation.


Facilitation:
Activities:
  • CCCP Activities Page - Conecticut Challenge Course Professionals keep a good list of team building games, etc.
  • CEEPS On-Line Activity Database - CEEPS has a tradition of sharing activities and writing them up for symposium attendees. In 2006, we decided to take it one step further. We now host an on-line database of activities that contributors have created or simply written up for us.
  • COPE games from Boy Scouts of America - COPE stands for Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience. The games on this site are used in the BSA COPE program.
  • FUNDoing - Great activites, books and links. The world record stats for Ricohet can also be found here.
  • Gaggle of Games - Our vision is to provide a community resource to grow our collective "toolbox" of activities for helping groups achieve their goals.
  • Index of Group Games - Group games are shared experiences that are memorable and fun. They can promote unity, teamwork, camaraderie, or teach valuable lessons. We’ve gathered our favorite games and provided instructions, rules, variations, and other useful information.
  • Mouse traps!!!! - Mousetraps are great for catching mice AND leading teambuilding games.
  • Teampedia: Tools for Teams - Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that anyone can edit!
  • Teamwork & Teamplay - Building unity, community, connection and teamwork through active learning. Downloadable articles, activities and information.
  • Training Games - This site contains more than 150 ready-to-use training games and activities. Most of them were published in the Thiagi GameLetter.
  • Wilderdom - Fantastic repository of games, activities, etc. Well worth a few minutes to find some worthwhile initiatives.
  • Youth Games - A site full of team building games and icebreakers for young people
Experiential Education:
  • National Society for Experiential Education - National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) is a nonprofit membership association of educators, businesses, and community leaders. Founded in 1971, NSEE also serves as a national resource center for the development and improvement of experiential e
  • Outdoor Ed - Great information on relating to outdoor education. Lots of books, articles, job postings and more.
Team Building Supplies:
  • Experiential Gear - Challenge course and ropes course supplies hardware and tools, teambuilding activities games and kits
  • Training Wheels, Inc. - Training Wheels is a known leader in the portable, adventure equipment industry and prides itself in creating quality, affordable activities, books, and trainings for those seeking experiential resources.
Challenge Courses:
  • Conecticut Challenge Course Professionals - The Home Page for the Conecticut Challenge Course Professionals dedicated to brining programs and facilitators in our region togehter. Celebrating 10 years 2008!!!
  • Low Ropes Course on the Trinity River in Northern California, Trinity Count - Redwoods and River Rafting Company and O'Connor and Associated joined forces to offer a challenge course for river rafting clients. See also Redwoods-Rivers.com
  • NAU Challenge Course - The website for the Northern Arizona University Challenge Course. We are always looking for potential NAU students, interns or facilitator in Arizona.
  • Orange County Ropes Course - Run by Rock City Climbing gym, this course offer a double level course with a 50ft rock wall as an entrance. The zipline is insane and there is also a power pole.
  • Ropes Course in Arcata, CA - A Ropes Course located in the Redwoods in Arcata, CA. This is a joint collaboration between the City of Arcata and O'Connor and Associates
  • UMD Challenge Course - Challenge Course program at the University of Maryland, College Park. GO TERPS!
Team Building Companies:
  • Dream Team Adventures, Inc. - Dream Team Adventures is dedicated to providing empowering team development programs nationally for corporate, community, and other organizations. Participants will be able to apply the skills they learn through the use of fun and experiential activities
  • lapdog, inc. - At lapdog, our goal is to make your team better at what they do. Period. How do we do it? Our passionate team of professional team development and team building consultants asks probing questions to determine what you need to excel. We then develop a prog
  • Lodestone Adventures - Lodestone is a leadership development organization that uses custom designed adventure programs to improve team skills and personal leadership and team skills.
  • Out of the Ordinary Group Adventures - Our specialty is unique, adventure-based teambuilding activities. Whether a general team-bonding experience, a meeting energizer, or an activity designed to work on specific issues – we create the program to meet your goals, time frame and budget.
  • Team Building Spain - Conference Coordinator Spain offer a wide variety of team building activities in Spain, including Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and the Costa del Sol, to suit all tastes and sizes of groups, from private special functions to large scale corporate events.
  • Training Wheels - A creative resource for building teams - Training Wheels is a known leader in the teambuilding industry and prides itself in creating quality, affordable activities, books, and trainings for those seeking experiential resources. Training Wheels has created a wide variety of facilitation, debrief
Schools:
  • Cornell Team & Leadership Center - As a part of Cornell Outdoor Education the Cornell (University) Team & Leadership Center (CTLC) offers facilitator trainings open to the public in the spring, summer, and fall, along with custom facilitator trainings for schools, higher education, and the
  • Eastern Kentucky University - The Eastern Kentucky University Challenge Course is a state-of-the-art facility where groups are given learning opportunities that are anchored in experience and challenge. Even more than the facility itself, we offer a variety of programs and workshops t
  • Ferris State University - This masters of education program with a concentration in experiential education is designed to meet the needs of people working in experiential education or people who want to enrich their practice by infusing their work with experiential education philo
  • Idaho State University - Offers degree in Outdoor education with some good experiential components available.
  • Minnesota State University, Mankato- Master's Degree in Experiential Educat - The Master of Science degree program in Experiential Education at Minnesota State University, Mankato (in Mankato, MN) is the oldest graduate degree program in experiential education in the United States. Originally started in 1971, the Master's program i
  • Montreat College - Outdoor Education
  • Prescott College - Students receive tremendous amounts of personalized instruction. Whether they are taking courses in lead climbing, whitewater kayaking, backcountry skiing, group dynamics students are studying and practicing the knowledge and skills they need to become co
  • Project Adventure, Inc. - Research based methods and skills for professionals taught in an immersion format. Focus on soft skills (facilitation, debreifing, sequencing) and technical skills (challenge course and course management). Over 130 workshops in over 8 locations national
  • UNC Charlotte Venture's Challenge Course - The Team Challenge Course (TC) has been successfully used by a wide variety of groups. The Team Challenge Course involves various trust building and problem solving tasks that require group interaction and cooperation to complete. For groups that are disc
  • University of Michigan - One of the oldest Department for Recreational Sports in the country. The Challenge Program at the University of Michigan is an activity based teambuilding program delivering to both university and non-university affiliated groups. We employ undergrads to
  • University of Minnesota Duluth - The purpose of the Master of Education in Environmental Education program is to develop advanced practitioners in environmental education who will take on leadership roles through positions such as educators and directors at nature centers, outdoor and en
  • University of Utah - The Adventure and Outdoor Programming emphasis area focuses on preparing students to facilitate hands-on learning activities in a variety of settings. This track provides students with the opportunities to develop skills in group dynamics and leadership,
Training:
  • Andrews Consulting, LLC - Training, opperation, maintainence and consultation to the challenge course and team building industry in the Pacific North West
  • Project Adventure, Inc. - A lead train-the-trainer organization, PA's facilitator workshops range from No Props and Portable Adventure to Advanced Facilitation Skills and Debriefing Tools.
  • Public Speaking Training - Princeton Public Speaking & Matt Eventoff provides executive communications training, leadership communications training, public speaking training & Presentation Skills to CEO's, leaders & to executives with fear of public speaking.
  • Santa Fe Learning Centers - Train the trainer bilingual spanish-english workshops for facilitators with materials in both languages, leadership and teambuilding programs for organizations. Methods: challenge course, low ropes, appreciative inquiry.
  • Teamwork & Teamplay - Train-the-Trainer workshops & program supplies including books, portable teambuilding props and debriefing/reviewing props
  • Training Wheels - Scheduled Training - oin Training Wheels staff and your co-teammates for a facilitator program that will be like none other you have participated in. This experience enhances the foundational skills necessary for facilitators.

Trainings/Events:

10.3 - COPE Facilitator's Workshop

10.9 - Challenge Course Facilitator Training

10.24 - Adventure Program Management: Critical Knowledge for the Challenge Course Manager

11.6 - Experiential Education Association Conference

11.8 - Professional Debrief for the Outdoor Leader

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