Adventure Education

At Bradford Woods, Adventure Education seeks to provide innovative learning opportunities that enable individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to maximize their potential. These programs may focus on team and community development, interpersonal reflection, personal skill growth, outdoor technical skills, leadership and therapeutic intervention. Professionally trained instructors facilitate participants through challenge courses and adventure-based activities.

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
Eleanor Roosevelt

US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

Adventure education uses unique situations and purposeful activities to provide an environment for learning. Specific activity sequences and program designs are created based on the group's desired outcomes. Our goal at Bradford Woods is to create a safe simulated environment where learning may transfer directly to the school, community, home, or workplace.

In the safe environment provided by Bradford Woods’ Adventure Education, we provide opportunities for growth in the areas of Leadership, Adventure Learning, Business Community, Consulting, and Challenge-Based Intervention programming areas. We can customize our programming to meet your needs.

Our various facilities can provide accessible accommodation for small and large groups.

We Offer:

Low Ropes Courses
High Pole Course
Pamper Platform Leap
Climbing Tower
Zip Line
Alpine Tower
Swing-By-Choice

Leadership & Organizational Development

The natural environment of Bradford Woods provides a novel setting that enables clients to share life's common challenges. Through our challenge-based intervention programming, individuals in a group setting can work on social skills and self systems, internal reflection, meeting individualized challenges and eventually practicing new behaviors.

Help your business or organization reach its potential! Through experiential training activities, your group will create an enhanced awareness of communication and cooperation in the workplace.

We can facilitate your strategic planning retreat, provide a corporate adventure, or customize training to fit your organizational needs within Bradford Woods outdoor environment or at your facility. Some clients who have benefited from our training are Eli Lilly and Company, Rolls Royce, NCAA, AstraZeneca, Cook Inc., Army Corps of Engineers, Ernst Young, Roche Diagnostics, and the Indiana University MBA program.

Bradford Woods is among a select group of outdoor centers to receive dual accreditation by Association for Experiential Education and the American Camp Association.

Contact Info:
Melanie Wills, B.A.
Director, Adventure Education
Phone: (765) 342-2915 ext 5238
E-Mail:mjwills@indiana.edu


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