Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ link is provided to answer some of the common questions concerning our consulting and training services. If you have a question and it isn’t addressed on this page, please contact us at info@newlifeadventures.net.
Where is your main base of operation?
We operate out of southern California, however we can design a course for literally anywhere in the world. We have constructed challenge courses throughout the US, Europe, South America and Southeast Asia.
Is most of your work done outdoors?
Experiential learning is especially effective and powerful in an outdoor setting. Getting people out of their routine atmosphere facilitates their openness to new learnings and is the first step in "showing up". Although our programs are usually outdoors, they can be done entirely indoors as well.
Do your programs require being in good physical shape?
No they don’t. Anyone can do these activities because our programs are not about doing the activities. That’s not the primary focus. The activities are utilized as instructional tools.
This is a very common concern. There are two important aspects of your question. Many times the real concern behind this is that people don’t want to look bad in front of their peers. We are aware of this. How we deal with it is to establish a non-competitive atmosphere before we do activities which could be viewed as competitive. We then set the tone so competition naturally doesn’t occur. It is replaced with team spirit, cooperation and mutual support.
The second aspect is that we approach these activities with a philosophy that declares that it’s never about the activity directly. The activities act as metaphors. They have no inherent properties. While the conceptual points behind this are difficult to apply, the experience of this is naturally and easily established. So we do not allow inter team competition to undermine the bonding, the spontaneous support that emerges among team member.
