Community Workshops & Professional Development Trainings

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.

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. 

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.