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Summer Camp Programs, Team Building and more
What We Do

Our programs are thoughtfully designed and carefully sequenced to foster personal growth and increased self-awareness as well as improved communication and interaction skills. This can lead to an improvement in individual self-esteem as well as enhanced group unity and functioning.

  • Our programs for younger children (ages 4-9) focus on developing more mindful interaction with other people, other living creatures and the environment through highly interactive "hands on" learning experiences.
  • Our programs for older children and teens (ages 10-18) focus on increasing kids' sense of accountability for the choices they make in both their words and actions towards others.
  • Our Team Building programs for adults focus on increasing group cohesion and performance. In addition, they teach people to first identify their own self-limiting behaviors and then to understand how they themselves are affected by these behaviors as well as how they impact the overall group.
Summer Camp Programs, Team Building and more
What happens

Change happens. Our programs have immediate and profound impact on participants and groups. Individuals often exceed their goals, and feel a sense of achievement and empowerment they may never have felt. Groups learn to rely on one another, and build new bonds of trust and openness.


FUN, FUN, FUN!!! There are primarily three reasons why our Adventure Education programs work so well. First, our small family farm setting is a safe and fun place in which people can relax and enjoy themselves. Second, when a person is absorbed in the fun of play, they do not typically act in as guarded a way as they might in the classroom or in a corporate setting, thereby opening up to learning more easily. Third, our facilitators practice non-judgemental ways of being which helps encourage people to try and break through their self-limiting behaviors.

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