Nature Hikes
THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING
Hit the Trails
The Nature Place has access miles of trails on COEC’s property. Feel free to explore during your free time using maps located at our front desk area or set up a guided hike with our program staff to enjoy with your team during your stay here. Guided hikes can be informal, natural learning based or themed to match your team development needs.
Examples of Our Themed Hikes:
3 hours
Chaos & Order
Science has been learning more and more about the “chaos and order” that exists in the natural world. The Nature Place uses this as a tool to help your leadership team make a leap with its understanding of how they work within, and lead their human ecosystem/organization. Participants consider the long view in order to gain valuable new “leadership perspectives” on how they can affect behavior positively in your business system in order to create clearly-defined objectives. Participants gain enlightened ideas that will formulate future action plans, and therefore help lead the organization in a much more focused way. This is a great activity to use toward the end of a multi-day “leadership perspective” program to help participants create their tangible action items to be implemented when they leave the mountain.
3 hours to 1 day
Five Billion Year Walk
Take an interactive journey during this “walk and talk” from the past to the present, while considering the continual change in Earth’s recorded history. Along the way, leaders will gain an understanding that “we are part of something bigger” and how it relates to your particular organization. We then create tangible action items that are needed in order to achieve the “desired state of the future” for your organization. This activity blends well with all of our other team and leadership development activities during a more in-depth, and intentionally multi-day program.
90 minutes – 3 hours
The Forest Walk
Teamwork in the business world is not unlike the interconnections in a natural system, the forest in this case. Each individual brings a set of experiences, personal styles, education, motivations, and needs to the web of interconnections within the group.
By looking closely at various species in the surrounding ecosystem (a research and development laboratory that is several million years old) our facilitator illustrates specifically nature’s unparalleled use of diversity, efficiency, innovation, change management, and more. When appropriate, tangible action items for your workplace become available to the group during this facilitated “walk and talk” activity.