“Experiential education and challenge programming can be one of the most effective pro-social developmental tools available today. Your ideas along with mine and all my contributing friends will create new ways to look at the world and all its wonder.” Affordable Portables is an essential tool for counselors, educators, trainers, and others interested in beginning or boosting an experiential challenge program at minimal cost. Activity descriptions include instructions for course and activity construction, tips on group facilitating, and suggested discussion questions for processing. Games/demonstrations focus on enhancing inventiveness, resourcefulness, problem-solving techniques, and pro-social skills. Activities contributed by: Lori Armstrong, Brian Brolin, Jim Cain, Madeline Constantine, Lenny Diamond, Craig Dobkin, Clay Fiske, Jackie Gerstein, Frank Harris, Clifford E. Knapp, Earl LaBlanc, Tom Leahy, Karl Rohnke, Sam Sikes, Tom Smith & Scott Trent. Table of Contents
Introduction Facilitation & Processing Section One: Initiative Games Initiative Games Introduction Birthday Rope Watch It Tosser Touch Three Tarp Activities Sticky Situation Going Nuts Raccoon Circles It Name Ball Moon Ball Zig-Zag Cooperative Ricochet Boundary Ball Fireball Flinch Up in the Air Sock in the Butt Objectables Lily Pads & Islands Puzzling Stick-Mobile Rope Bus Sticks, Stones & Bones Pipeline Islands Marble Movers The Great Egg Drop Electric Amoeba Tangles Lap Stack Waterfall Corporate Box Three Noodle Initiatives Chris-Cross Leakers The Tunnel Hole-in-One Goodness Cratious Descend-sion Overhead Crane Carpet Maze The Last Crusade & the Path to Enlightenment© Bun-G-Box/PVC Bun-G-Box Lines of Communication Section Two: Safety First Safety First Introduction Spotting Tennis Ball Walk Blind Beam Warning Bells Mine Field Trash Collector Section Three: Initiative Elements Initiative Elements Introduction Quad Jam Box Hop Box Top Windmill Opposites Attract Mountain Tops Swamp Walk Trolleys Friendship Walk Electric Portal The Web The Cube Roof Tops References Appendix Resources, Processing & Facilitation Additional Experiential Resources Experiential/Adventure-Based Training Companies Challenge Course Builders Equipment/Resources Catalogs Equipment Tricks |