Our Models

Challenge – Support – Trust – Change
Challenge. Getting outside your comfort zone is the first step. Our journeys create this opportunity. That’s right – challenge is opportunity.
Socially – by sharing yourself with others and getting to know others.
Physically – by supporting you to challenge yourself just beyond your comfort zone.
Emotionally – through adversity comes mental strength.
Spiritually – through being in a natural environment and connecting with yourself.

Support. You are not alone on the challenges above, we are in it together. We travel together, live together, eat together, experience the hard times and good times together. When you need others they are there for you.

Trust. Great things happen when you trust others. The experience of being in a group that relies on you and you can rely on is amazing!

Change. As you progress through the journey you will become different. Through the process your change will happen through the experience. The change is real and within yourself. This is not like a self help book you read and ‘think’ is a good idea without any real change to who you are. This is an immersive experience where change occurs, even if you don’t realise it.

Dependence to Independence to Interdependence
Dependence. Our journeys are designed to move the group through a process of training and coaching at the beginning.

Independence. In the middle stages, the participants are taking full responsibility for their themselves and the influence they have on the group.
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Interdependence. In the later stages the group becomes self reliant and a strong cohesive group achieving its purpose.

Vision – Belief – Responsibility
Vision. Your vision for yourself is like your compass. The clearer your vision of yourself is, the better you will align your life to make that happen. An unclear, limited or scattered vision results in a life that reflects this.

Belief. We achieve what we believe. We take on beliefs about ourselves as if they are truths set in stone. We hardly ever evaluate and choose these beliefs based on their usefulness to us, we simply adopt them through our emotional and cognitive experience in the world. Our unchecked beliefs are responsible for what we do or don’t have right now.

Responsibility. We are responsible for what we have or do not have. It is our actions in the world plus our interpretation and response to our actions that defines our experience in the world. If we want something to change, it must start with us.

Key Elements on all our journeys

• The positive influence of nature.
• The positive use of stress.
• Active and direct participation and responsibility.
• Meaningful involvement in adventure experiences.
• The focus on positive change (present and future functional behaviour).
• Holistic effects on learning.
• The strong ethic of care and support.

“It is not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves” – Sir Edmund Hillary

This is not a boot camp. We do not break you in order for you to rediscover yourself. We apply personal development theory along with an experiential learning model that is respectful and considerate. The developmental work happens through our facilitators helping you make sense of your experience and what that means to you. We do not know how this journey will change you, it is through your experience and our carefully developed model of facilitation that you will come face to face with aspects of yourself that you love and hate. You will leave this journey with a new perspective of who you are, how you want to be and learn strategies to make that happen.

Our Journeys

4 Day Explore
Are you unsure if this is right for you or are you limited on time? This is the programme to to start with. This is a bit like exploring your own backyard. You know there is a fence to keep you safe but within the fence is unknown possibilities.

Cost: $1120 pp
Location: departs from and returns to Auckland
Max group number = 12

Overview:

• Day 1 is at our Challenge Course. Here we will form the group, create the context of trust and interdependence, introduce you to our model and then head off to a lodge.
• Day 2 will include an abseil and a coastal walk. This day includes a personal challenge plus some reflective time working on our model.
• Day 3 we pack up for an overnight tramp and head off to our wilderness campsite.
• Day 4 we spend some time at the campground and work on our model before heading home.

8 Day Explore
This is a longer version of the 4 day programme using different adventurous activities. We look after you but you will need to more self-reliant. You will discover aspects of yourself you did not know existed and experience yourself as a capable, self-reliant and integral member of a group achieving its purpose.

Cost: $2240 pp
Location: departs from and returns to Auckland
Max group number = 12

Overview:

• Days 1-2 are based at a lodge. You will get to know each other and be introduced to the process and model we will use for group and personal development.
• Days 3 – 7 are a journey that includes sea kayaking and tramping.
• Day 8 is based at a lodge making sense of the journey, what you have learnt and what this experience means to you.

19 Day Navigator
This is the ultimate self development journey. You will end this journey different to how you began… guaranteed!

A navigator provides the direction for the purpose to be achieved. This journey will leave you with a firm belief in the strengths you have, vision for who you are and the confidence to be and do what you believe in. When personal purpose is clear, everything else in your life works to make that a reality.

This is a long programme but is managed in such a way that it is achievable for moderate levels of fitness.

Overview:

• Days 1-2 are based at a lodge. You will get to know each other and be introduced to the process and model we will use for group and personal development.
• Days 3-6 are at base camp. We will set up camp including tents, kitchen and classroom. You will learn the physical and mental skills you will need for the journey. This sits within the Dependence stage as you are dependent on us setting you up for success.
• Days 7 -11 are Journey Stage 1 – Kayak and Mountain Biking sections.
• Day 12 Layover camp
• Days 13 – 16 are Journey stage 2 – Tramp section.
• Days 17-18 are based at a lodge working through a final reflection of the journey, what you have learnt and what this experience means to you.

Cost: $4500 pp
Location: departs from and returns to Auckland
Max group number = 12