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Facilitation:
- The Experiential Learning Cycle - Kolb (1984) provides one of the most useful descriptive models of the adult learning process available, inspired by the work of Kurt Lewin.
- Active Reviewing - The art of learning from experience. 100+ ways to review experience and transfer learning.
- Facilitation (Face-to-Face and Online) Resource - A collection of links and write-ups on facilitation. Not directly tied to team building but definitely has applications.
- Teambuilding Debriefing Activities - Short list of debriefing methods.
- THE TECHNOLOGY OF PARTICIPATION - A write-up on the ORID method of debriefing.
- ICA Associates Inc. - They have a good list of articles on facilitation methods, techniques, and other aspects of the process.
Activities:
- Youth Games - A site full of team building games and icebreakers for young people
- Mouse traps!!!! - Mousetraps are great for catching mice AND leading teambuilding games.
- 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.
- Gaggle of Games - Our vision is to provide a community resource to grow our collective "toolbox" of activities for helping groups achieve their goals.
- 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.
- 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.
- Teampedia: Tools for Teams - Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that anyone can edit!
- 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.
- CCCP Activities Page - Conecticut Challenge Course Professionals keep a good list of team building games, etc.
- FUNDoing - Great activites, books and links. The world record stats for Ricohet can also be found here.
- Wilderdom - Fantastic repository of games, activities, etc. Well worth a few minutes to find some worthwhile initiatives.
Experiential Education:
- Association for Experiential Education - The Association for Experiential Education (AEE) is a nonprofit, professional membership association dedicated to experiential education and the students, educators and practitioners who utilize its philosophy. We strive to: Connect educators in pract
- 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:
- UMD Challenge Course - Challenge Course program at the University of Maryland, College Park. GO TERPS!
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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!!!
- 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.
Team Building Companies:
- The Rainmaker Group - Five Dysfunctions of a Team Training - A Five Dysfunctions of a Team training and team building program facilitated by The Rainmaker Group will help your team overcome the dysfunctions that are keeping it from reaching its full potential.
- Peak Performance! - Peak Performance!™ is a performance-enhancement training company. We help people improve the way they think about themselves and work with each other. We get people “singing off the same page,” focused on the same goal, and excited to be working together.
- Team Building Training - Corporate team building training and fun events by Corplearning. Visit Us Now!
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Lodestone Adventures - Lodestone is a leadership development organization that uses custom designed adventure programs to improve team skills and personal leadership and team skills.
- 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
- 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.
Schools:
- Team QUEST, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Team QUEST offers a variety of experiential education programming opportunities which we tailor according to the needs of our groups. We provide programming for a wide variety of groups including university groups, non-profit agencies, and corporate clien
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Idaho State University - Offers degree in Outdoor education with some good experiential components available.
Training:
- Association for Challenge Course Technology - ACCT is a trade organization, serving Challenge Course Professionals all over the world. The purpose of the association is to promote the use of Challenge Courses and to set minimum standards for Challenge Course installation, operation and inspection.
- MG Rush Performance Learning - FAST provides the most comprehensive structured meeting and workshop technique available. FAST enables information gathering where group efforts replace individual interviews and uncertain group-think --- accelerated meeting results through disciplined a
- 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
- 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.
- 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.