The Activity Chart

Training Phase- SKILLS ACQUISITION
         Participants start their course, at a base camp or trail head/launch site.Gear is distributed. Instruction is given. Learn fundamental skills such as: setting up shelter en-route, navigation, safety procedures, wilderness cooking, basic first aid, knot tying, leave-no-trace camping. Familiarise backcountry traveling and understand the importance of teamwork. In addition with the objective of learning, notes on ecology, flora and fauna, animal habitat, tribal life, etc will be included. Camp side workshops are well structured, easy-paced and effectively facilitated.

Main Phase- TEAM BUILDING
           Once skills are acquired the next task at hand is: co-existence of participants and the team Ace Paddlers. This means not only putting their newly acquired skills into practice but also developing a strategy with their group to become a high performing team.

SOLO-REFLECTION
         Solo is a time in solitude to reflect, relax and recharge. It is in sharp contrast to the physical rigors and intensity of the group experience. It is not a survival experience. Each participant is assigned an isolated place. It is a time of contemplation to allow their experiences to sink in and set goals for the rest of the course and for when they return home.

Final- SUCCESS THROUGH EXPEDITION
     The last third of the expedition participants will make use of the opportunity of putting all of it together. Instructors will set back and ask them and the group to take responsibility for the expedition. On longer courses the instructors will become silent group members, ready to intervene if necessary, but willing to let participants and their group flounder and succeed as they organize the team and navigate on their own. The responsibility is real, the interdependence vital, skills practical and success their own to savour.

Camp-side Workshops
    As value addition to their grueling experiences in the great outdoors are the confidence building, etiquette, self grooming, management, public speaking skills, reading and study skills, memory skills, creative thinking, habits for success, time management, hobbies for pleasure, balanced physique, diet program, communication skills, yoga and meditation, self healing exercises and many more.