What is it about?
Using outdoor-adventure training -- high ropes courses, orienteering, etc. -- as a source of learning by tapping into four main elements of organizational experience -- performing, assessing, visioning, and strategizing. Holistic awareness of all four elements is crucial to individual learning and organizational transformation.
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Why is it important?
Training and development in classroom and virtual formats have many limitations. The most concerning of these is the inability to draw connections with participants' actual work experiences. Even "off-site" teambuilding retreats at hotels and conference centers are less effective when it comes to transferring that training back to the workplace. Outdoor-adventure training, however, provides many advantages over those other formats when approached and executed correctly.
Perspectives
The physical, psychological, and emotional nature of well-designed, team-based outdoor-adventure training activities provide the engagement and focus necessary to learn key skills -- communication, trust, cooperation, conflict resolution, etc. Those skills can then be transferred back to the workplace with the help of a facilitator using proven experiential learning processes.
Dr. John Meyer
Iona College
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This page is a summary of: Four Territories of Experience: A Developmental Action Inquiry Approach to Outdoor-Adventure Experiential Learning, Academy of Management Learning and Education, December 2003, The Academy of Management,
DOI: 10.5465/amle.2003.11901956.
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