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Community Workshops & Outdoor Adventures

Community Workshops & Outdoor Adventures

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Certifications & Instructor Courses

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Certifications & Instructor Courses

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What is Adventurous Learning?

Experiences that invite people out of their comfort zone in a supportive environment.

A wide variety of programs and workshops that offer up the opportunity for participants to explore themselves, their relationships with each other, and the world around them. 

Immersive growth as people adapt to new challenges.

Technical skills. Social skills. Emotional skills. Capacities to challenge ourselves internally and build the trust in our group to offer mutual support as we grow today.  21st century skills go well beyond technical knowledge and incorporate our ability to use that knowledge in a group for mutual success.

Growth for the whole-human.

Adventurous learning provides new experiences to which we must adapt, learn, and grow across our whole being. Resilience and grit are considered two of the most critical capacities any person can practice. Adventurous learning helps us to find our strength, focus effort, bounce back, and excel, all while we work with others on building shared experience. The heart of what it means to be human.

Professional Development Workshops

Adventurous Social Emotional Learning Programs- Facilitation Foundations Series

Experiential social-emotional learning (SEL). Our activity-based workshop helps you build youth programs that build connections to self and community while developing skills for life. 


Relationship skills, leadership and followership skills, grit and resilience, communication capacity, planning and vision, responsibility and shared values. The hallmarks of our adventurous SEL programs. 


Ideal for school & afterschool educators, youth groups, social services orgs, police & fire departments, social workers and clinicians, and camp staff.


 Bring adventurous social emotional learning (SEL) to your work. These workshops are ideal for people who work with youth and emerging adults and want to expand their experiential learning programs!


Your group will learn by doing as we explore essential concepts of adventurous education, program safety, activity selection, framing and reflecting, social-emotional learning, group development and much, much more.


This series encompasses three full days of immersive professional development broken into 3 separate and cumulative workshops:


Adventure Facilitation Foundations 1- Launching Adventurous SEL

Adventure Facilitation Foundations 2- Expanding Adventurous SEL & Group Management

Adventure Facilitation Foundations 3- Building Adventurous Culture in your Organization


These are offered as open-enrollment workshops or bring in Team Imo for custom workshop delivery. Learn more about each program here.

Explore the Series

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Adventure Facilitation

As an informed and compassionate educator and adventure facilitator, understanding core concepts of trauma, and it's potential impact upon program participants is critical.    In this 2 hour workshop, we will explore  concepts related the neurobiological nature of trauma, potential behavioral implications in an adventure programming environment, and participant assistance measures to assist in de-escalating behavior. This workshop can be delivered as part of an in-person professional development training or virtually.


  Check out upcoming open enrollment courses or email teamimo@projectimo.org to discuss hosting an event for your organization.

Upcoming Courses

Leading Immersive Nature Education Workshops

Bring your classroom to life with Imo and Project Learning Tree.


Project Imo staff will help you bring your nature workshops to life. We incorporate Project Learning Tree’s award-winning environmental education program into your experience. Our trained PLT facilitators will give your faculty the background they need to incorporate active and engaging learning into their natural sciences curriculum. Project Learning Tree connects adventurous learning grade-level-appropriate standards. The concepts in our PLT materials help teach people not what, but rather how to think about the environment through scientific discovery and exploration. The lessons actively engage learners in across five major themes: patterns, interrelationships, systems, structure and scale, and stability and change.  


  Check out upcoming open enrollment courses or email teamimo@projectimo.org to discuss hosting an event for your organization. 

Upcoming Workshops

Emotional De-escalation & Conflict Management for Youth Workers

 Youth workers, teachers, camp staff, mentors, coaches all end up helping youth people resolve conflict and are often called upon to help a youth in crisis.

Project Imo will help your team take conflict resolution and de-escalation to the next level. This immersive workshop helps participants gain:

  • Understanding of individual escalation from cognitive, emotional, and physiological perspectives.
  • Powerful understanding of our own emotional response to conflict.
  • De-escalation strategies for emotionally escalated individuals.
  • Foundational communication strategies for conflict resolution.
  • Understanding of potential causes of interpersonal conflict within a group.
  • Conflict resolution strategies such as feedback, taking perspective, and building consensus.
  • Appreciation of the power of practicing conflict resolution in positive youth development.

This immersive workshop runs from 6-8 hours and includes activities that reinforce concepts. This is not a psychiatric emergency crisis response workshop but rather a workshop built for practical application for conflict between youth in program environments.

Upcoming Workshops

Organizational Leadership Adventures

Who are YOU as an organization?    


Real growth or change in an organization comes with strong culture.  Strong culture comes from shared experience and co-created values developed in a way that transforms a group of individuals into a community with common purpose.   


Project Imo facilitators support your team as they embed commitments to values-based practices into each experience. We will create a customized journey for your team. Whether it is a wilderness excursion, portable teambuilding course, flatwater explorations, ancestral survival skills, or wilderness "escape rooms", we will work with your group to develop a singular experience.     


Beyond abstract assessments  

We don’t employ abstract surveys and assessment models that are nearly impossible to operationalize in the real workplace. Our facilitation experts will work with your team in real time to identify strengths and challenges during actual experiences.    


Building internal capacities  

Project Imo works with you to identify specific goals in advance of your experience and tailors our multimodal experiential learning model to your needs. This poises your team to grow and retain capacities for sustained excellence.    


Creating strategic visionaries  

Big visions require a team that can see the horizon, but this isn’t just about the big picture. Organizational visions require clear and common purpose, identifiable goals, and strategies to attain these goals. We will facilitate an engaging, adventurous training for your team that circles back perfectly into your workspace.

Build your best team

Community Skills Workshops & Adventures

Nature Excursions

This one-day program gives your group a chance to explore the natural trails and waterways around you! We'll help your group plan a hike or flatwater paddling experience to learn about nature, bond as a team, or simply to get the old blood pumping.  These excursions can range from Project Imo facilitators arriving at your location to offer expertise or we can plan for your whole group to use Project Imo gear, boats, and more.


Check our upcoming events calendar for open community events or reach out to book a group Nature Excursions program.

Explore & Adventure

Wilderness Skills Workshop

This one-day program covers the basics of trip preparation, nutrition and food preparation, gear selection, trip planning, and  basic outdoor risk management concepts. This is the perfect place to start learning the ins-and-outs of solid, safe, and respectful backcountry practices.

Be Wild

Leave No Trace Workshop

Utilizing the 7 principle of Leave No Trace, our LNT facilitators will focus on teaching how to leave a minimum impact on the outdoors. This includes an overview of the national Leave No Trace program, discussions outdoor ethics, apply LNT practices to a variety of environments, and more.


Check our upcoming events calendar for open community classes or book a group LNT Workshop.

Leave No Trace

Certification and Instructor Courses

American Red Cross Certifications

Do your staff or faculty know how to appropriately respond to a potentially life threatening injury or illness? Do you want to make sure your learners, clients, and team are as protected as possible?


Project Imo's certified American Red Cross instructors can provide an array of immersive training including first aid, CPR, AED, tourniquet, epipen, naloxalone (Narcan), and more.


Reach out. Group rates apply for contract workshops.

Safe a life

Wilderness Survival & Leadership Foundations

These courses are designed for anyone spending time in the backcountry.  Our experienced Imo staff will cover the concepts of trip planning, risk management, basic navigation, emergency response, Leave No Trace principles, problem-solving, group dynamics, navigation, and PI procedures. 


This also serves as a foundational training for Project Imo volunteers who will be leading excursion programs as Program Leader 1 or above.  This is not a certification course.

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