Facilitator Training

Adventureworks’ affiliate company, Adventure Designs, is accredited by the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT), to offer certification for practitioners at all levels.

The ACCT is an international trade association dedicated to standards, government relations, credentialing, professional development and advancement of our members. ACCT is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards developer for the global challenge course, aerial adventure park, canopy tour, and zip line industry. establishes and promotes the standard of care and measure of excellence that defines professional practice and effective challenge course programs. The ACCT develops, refines, and publishes standards for Installing, maintaining, and managing challenge courses; provides forums for education and professional development; and advocates for the challenge course and adventure industry.

Portable Challenge Initiatives Training Practitioner Level I/II Certification & Recertification 4-Day Intensive Practitioner Level I/II Training

DESCRIPTION: Portable Challenge Initiatives Training | Portable challenge initiatives are an invaluable component of any adventure program, and are tools that facilitators can use with all client populations—especially those who might not be able to come to a ropes course but are still seeking those powerful “Aha!” learning moments! This training will benefit both new and experienced facilitators, and will include the following components:

• Experiential: participate in portable challenge initiatives to gain a better understanding of the participant’s experience and how to facilitate these activities.
• Soft Skills Training: the role of the facilitator, opening a group and setting the tone for a rich, successful learning experience; group contract/boundaries; how to avoid common facilitator “traps” and other tools.
• Working with Groups: learn about group dynamics including stages of group development; understand the experiential learning cycle; tools for working with various client populations.
• Program Design: principles of good program design; adapting to group dynamics and modifying variables such as tempo and intensity of activities to create an impactful program; trouble-shooting and redesign.
• Processing/Debriefing Skills: questions to ask to facilitate the “Aha!” moment(s); learn different methods of processing during a program.

REQUIREMENTS	LOCATION	FEE	DATE / TIME
N/A	Southeast Community Center 5260 Hickory Hollow Parkway Suite 202 Antioch, TN 37013	$180	2/21/19 8:30 am – 3:30 pm 2/22/19 8:30 am – 3:30 pm

DESCRIPTION: Practitioner Level I/II Certification & Recertification | This training is for current ACCT Level I/Level II Practitioners seeking recertification and will include an 8-hour refresher training of essential soft skills for facilitation as well as a review of necessary technical skills (belay set-up, belaying, knot tying, safety) on 3/23/19 in preparation for recertification testing on 3/24/19 (written and practical skills test).

REQUIREMENTS	LOCATION	FEE	DATE / TIME
Trainees must submit documentation of the following: – Recertification Criteria for Level I: 50 hours of challenge course program delivery or 16 hours additional training w/in one year of the certification date for Level I Full Certification. – Recertification Criteria for Level II: 150 cumulative hours of challenge course work experience and 24 hours of additional relevant training within previous 3 years for Level II Full Certification.	Adventureworks Nashville West 1300 Narrows Road Kingston Springs, TN 37082	$300 * * For recertification testing only, fee is $150	3/22/19 – 3/23/19

DESCRIPTION: 4-Day Intensive Practitioner Level I/II Training | The 4-Day Intensive Practitioner Level I/II Training provides entry and advanced level skills training for both new and experienced facilitators. This training is designed to assist counselors, trainers, educators, and other professionals to develop both the “soft skills” and technical skills necessary for safe and effective facilitation of group initiatives, trust processes, and low and high challenge ropes course activities.

  Participants will personally experience the transformative power of the adventure-based learning model through hands-on participation in some of the challenge initiatives and experiential activities they will facilitate in the field. In-depth training in soft skills will cover program design, selection and sequence of activities, effective presentation, skillful observation, preservation of emotional/physical safety and meaningful processing/debriefs. Thorough training of technical skills will include equipment set-up, use, inspection, and care; emergency challenge course rescues; static and dynamic belays; knot tying, zipwires, challenge course construction/inspection issues, and general program risk management.

REQUIREMENTS	LOCATION	FEE	DATE / TIME
Please note that certain requirements must be met by individuals seeking certification and the criteria for each level is established in the current ACCT Practitioner Certification Standards. An important point to note is that trainings are not certifications, though a training may be an important component of the certification process. If you have any questions regarding certification please contact us at (615) 297-2250.	St. Columba Episcopal Conference & Retreat Center 4577 Billy Maher Rd. Memphis, TN 38135	Training: $650 Certification test: $150 Lodging and meals: $275	4/8/19 – 4/11/19

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