Why is Experiential Education So Powerful?

Experiential education is an extremely powerful tool for the development and maintenance of work teams. Within every program individuals are encouraged to take healthy challenges and call upon both their physical and psychological capabilities. By taking the team members outside of their work environment, ropes courses can achieve incredible team trust and communication.

Working As a Team

Throughout the day, CEO’s. upper management, financial officers, general employees, etc. are treated equally. Every team member must communicate, listen and work together as a team to accomplish the tasks and achieve the goals. Each activity is framed out and presented to the group in a puzzle like fashion. The group must choose roles and assign responsibilities in order to solve the “puzzle.”

Developing Relationships and Trust

Personality traits come to the surface because people become less inhibited during the exercises. When the true personality of an individual comes to the surface, the other team members can begin to understand why they act the way they do at work. This understanding makes working together in a team much easier. During the exercise they learn to trust the system (which in this case is their team), they learn to take risks and to go outside their comfort zone, because they trust their system to catch them if they fall.

When teams collaborate via experiential education, creativity and productivity skyrocket. This is a huge step for most work teams and paves the road for further success.