Nature Hikes
THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING
Hit the Trails
The Nature Place has access to miles of trails on COEC’s property. Feel free to explore during your free time using maps located at our front desk, or set up a guided hike with our program staff to enjoy with your team during your stay. Guided hikes can be informal, educational or themed to match your team development needs.
Examples of Our Themed Hikes:
3 hours
Chaos & Order
Science is 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 mountains.
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, multi-day program.
90 minutes – 3 hours
The Forest Walk
Teamwork in the business world is not unlike the interconnections in a natural system in-in this case, 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.
Explore the surrounding ecosystem as a research and development laboratory millions of years in the making. During this guided walk and talk, your facilitator draws on local species to illustrate nature’s approaches to diversity, efficiency, innovation, and managing change. Along the way, your group connects these observations to workplace challenges, identifying practical actions to apply back at work.