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Welcome to the Connecticut Challenge Course Professionals’ site!!
** GREAT ADVENTURE EDUCATION STUFF IN 2009**
Don’t forget discounts for CCCP members for AEE Regional Conference at Becket, Mass, April 17-19
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THE 2009 CCCP ANNUAL CONFERENCE WAS A GREAT DAY!!
For the 70 or so facilitators that attended, it was a great day! Chris Cavert provided the group with a whole day of fun, new stuff, and networking opportunities. It was super!! If you weren’t able to make it, we missed you!!
But don’t miss out on anything in the future!! Join us! The $20 membership (cheap) will get you into the swing of adventure programming. New or experienced, it’s the deal of the millenium!!
Become a Member.
Special thanks to all those who attended and participated in the day!! Special thanks to Mike Barker - PRCA, Shelly Gibson and Bill “Sully” Sullivan - CT Challenge Course Mgrs, Jen Stanchfield, and Jim Cantoni - Giva-Geta. Thank you to the board members and volunteers for all their hard work.
And finally a huge thank you to Chris Cavert for being with us for the day. If you don’t know him, you should!
We welcome our new members to the CCCP! Congrats and welcome to new board member Blair Wlochowski. Sorry to see Jay Potter leave the board after many years of great service, but he won’t be a stranger!
And we have our first CCCP Activity Bag Sighting…
…our own Sharon Gagne in a submarine, underwater in Hawaii !!
So everyone, send us pics of anywhere CCCP bags are sighted.
The CCCP…a crossroad and meetingplace for adventure programming in Connecticut and the Northeast United States.
Information for Groups and Individuals who are looking for Adventure Education, team building, individual and team challenge, outdoor and indoor programming in Connecticut, where are facilities, what it’s all about, and contact facilitators in the field of Adventure Education in Connecticut.
Information for facilitators about new initiatives, games, legislation, who needs help, workshops, and networking with other facilitators.
Mission Statement:
It is the mission of the CCCP to provide educational and networking opportunities in the field of adventure programming in the Connecticut region, and to promote and nurture the cooperation of the challenge course practitioners.
What is Experiential Programming?
Called by a few different names like adventure education, adventure programming, experiential programming, personal challenge, etc. the emphasis for learning is placed in experiencing the learning rather that simply being taught. Whether it’s….
….a corporate group solving a “field maze”
….an individual working their way through a high ropes course
….or a school group problem solving the “Mohawk Walk Initiative”
… the learning happens via the experience, simply Learning while doing. This approach increases the retention from the 10% retention of the spoken word to more like 75% retention from an interactive experience. Also, the synergy of the program often brings out new ground to be explored. Where a group or individual starts out in one place… the experience may take the group or individual to an unanticipated place.
What’s New:
The CCCP held it’s 2008 Annual Conference Meeting on March 8th. And the October Facilitator Olympics was great!!
