"Great atmosphere and really fun yet relevant learning experience"
- BOT Nelson 2007
Scheduled Training
Workshops
These workshops are recommended for professionals working in education, community and health settings,
social services, justice, recreation, leisure, counsellors, outdoor educators, youth workers, human
resource professionals, trainers, mental health staff, social workers, teachers, caregivers, tutors etc.
We offer a variety of scheduled training workshops throughout the year around New Zealand in the
areas of Adventure Based Learning Foundations, Group Facilitation skills, and Technical skills.
Currently these are:
Adventure Based Learning Foundations
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Bag of Tricks Workshop (BOT) 1 day
This one day workshop has been designed in response to participants requests for an
extended range of experiential activities and debriefing techniques. The day involves
a 'quick-fire' tour through over 30 innovative new games as well as twists and
variations on old favourites. Each participant will receive a copy of the Bag of
Tricks resource booklet with detailed instructions for over 100 activities.
9am - 5pm, one-day, non-residential workshop
$125 incl GST
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Facilitation of Adventure Based Learning Experiences (FABLE) 2 days
An action orientated workshop designed to give participants an overview of the
Adventure Based Learning process and also experience an extensive range of
adventure based learning games and activities that match with the various stages of
this process.
8.30am - 5pm, two-day, non-residential workshop
$250 incl GST
Concepts that will be covered include:
- contracting
- goal setting
- challenge by choice
- programme design and sequencing
- an introduction to briefing and debriefing
- a range of tools to design programmes to meet specific outcomes
- how to create an atmosphere of fun and safety
- a variety of fun, easy to use experiential activities for your bag of tricks
Group Facilitation Skills
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Debriefing & Facilitation Skills (DFS) - 2 days
This workshop is designed for those who are using experiential and adventure
based approaches in their work and are wanting to expand and develop their
repertoire of techniques to process and debrief experiences enabling participants
to reflect on their experiences and to learn from them.
8.30am - 5pm , two-day, non-residential workshop
$250 incl GST
Content includes:
- tools and strategies for groups who don't have much to say
- a tool bag of active debrief methods and models
- selecting and sequencing debrief methods
- facilitation focus topics and establishing facilitation flow
- frontloading and the development of metaphors
- using the experiential learning cycle to guide the facilitation of a debrief
- skills for handling conflict and group dynamics to move the group on
- an opportunity to participate in experiential activities and design effective debrief strategies
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Experiential Approaches with Challenging Adolescents (EACA)- 2 days
This two day workshop is our most popular workshop and is recommended for those
who work with resilient young men and women who present a significant challenge to
traditional techniques and practices.
8.30am - 5pm , two-day, non-residential workshop
$250 incl GST
Content includes:
- tools and strategies for engaging challenging adolescents, especially in
group work settings
- a review of current research into effective therapeutic approaches with
these young people
- a rationale for using experiential and adventure-based approaches with
these groups and an overview of methods that can be used to integrate this
approach within existing programmes.
- case studies of programmes adopting experiential approaches including Project
Adventure Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. (alternative education, substance abuse,
and sexual offender treatment programmes) as well as a range of New Zealand
based programmes.
- an opportunity to participate in experiential activities framed to address
therapeutic issues.
- working with conflict and ‘funky' group dynamics, and developing positive
group culture – strategies to slowly move difficult and fractured groups
towards positive and cohesive teams.
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Advanced Facilitation Skills (AFS) - 3 days
This is a professional skill development workshop for experienced facilitators of
adventure based learning. It is run once per year, each year alternating between
North and South Islands.
8.30am - 5pm , three-day, non-residential workshop
$450 incl GST
Content includes:
- appraisal from other professionals to enhance facilitation skills
- the chance to extend both understanding and application of more sophisticated
adventure based learning concepts
- self appraisal and short to medium term facilitation action planning
- understanding how learning theories can inform programme design and effective
debriefing
- developing facilitation flow and navigating facilitation 'pot-holes'
- the conscious choice of leadership styles to meet the needs of the group and
its link to developing empowerment and positive group culture
Technical Skills
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Safety Skills and Standards (SSAS)- 5 days
This workshop provides opportunities to learn and practise skills and procedures for using
Challenge Ropes Courses and to critique current practices. This comprehensive technical
workshop is the benchmark baseline training for Challenge Ropes Course facilitators wanting
to provide quality learning experiences for their clients.
8.30am - 5pm , five-day, non-residential course
$600 incl GST
Content includes:
- course set-up and take down procedures
- presenting activities and risk management
- use of associated equipment
- belaying techniques
- what if things go wrong?
- gear retrievals
- basic rescue techniques
- presentation of recent technical advances.
This ropes course training is the bench mark for ropes course facilitation and as such is
recognized on all ropes courses around New Zealand.
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Project Adventure Assessments and Practitioner Certification
PANZ is providing Practitioner Certification in association with Project Adventure Inc.
who are an accredited Professional Vendor Member of ACCT (The Association for
Challenge Course Technology) and all testing meets the
ACCT Practitioner Certification Standards.
PANZ's technical skills and facilitator assessments can also include assessment of unit standards from the
NZQA Adventure Based Learning
Domain. Please contact us for more information and to discuss your needs.
PANZ's assessments and Practitioner Certification programme have been designed to meet the needs of the many
individuals and programmes that have requested certification and as a response to the demands for our industry
to be accountable. We recognise the need for certification will vary with individuals and programmes and we
have three different levels of certification available. We also understand that certification alone does not
address every safety and quality issue. However, properly applied, certification can be very helpful in
promoting safety, quality and good professional practice.
Practitioner Certification: Levels 1, 2 and Challenge Course Manager
Enrolment Guarantee
"We intend to make every effort to run every workshop we advertise. To endorse this intention we agree that
if any workshop you have paid the enrolment fee for is cancelled, we will allow you to enrol a colleague of your
choice to attend the next PANZ workshop you attend for NO CHARGE to them!"
