The Equal Adventure Training Programme
The three key areas on which the programme focuses are Practice, Procedure and Policy; otherwise translated as what you do, how you do it and why you do it. The aim of the Training Programme is to enable your organisation to adopt a fully inclusive working practice, providing services and resources which ensure you cater for the needs of disabled people in a functional and cohesive manner. The modular approach offers flexibility and depth, ensuring best-fit for your organisation’s resources and staff time. The Foundation Module addresses issues of diversity and inclusion in an experiential and broad manner and provides you and your organisation with a common language and understanding from which to grow.
Why Equal Adventure Training (EAT)?
The strength of the EAT team is in our wealth of experiences and knowledge, gained from developing and field testing resources in the outdoor adventure and expedition environments. These demanding, diverse environments create an ideal testing ground for practices and procedures that can be translated into ‘everyday’ situations. EAT’s development projects have raised the standard in inclusive outdoor adventure at a national level. We encourage you, your staff and your organisation to share in our unique and positive legacy, and to share in our proactive, multi-disciplinary approach. Together we can create access solutions that are realistic and sustainable.
Equal Adventure are the experts in inclusive outdoor adventure and active lifestyles. Our experience, qualifications and training has put us in pole position to deliver training to you and your organisation. Whether it be classroom or outdoors based, our tutors delivery style will engage you and your staff, enabling you to learn instantly useable information and skills.
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Courses Summary
Awareness Seminar (1 Day)
This module provides an insight into the type and use of resources that support inclusive practice. With an insight into the basics of disability equity training, it provides ‘hands on’ opportunities to try equipment, both on land and on water. Using an open forum approach, it explores issues relating to current concerns or practices and introduces the concepts of regional forums and equipment caches.
Fountation (1 Day)
The Foundation course provides the prerequisite for all of the other modules. This one day practical training module will allow staff to:
- Understand disability and inclusion related issues Understand the needs of disabled people when accessing facilities or opportunities
- Take access and equity issues out of the ‘too-hard-to-handle basket’ and provide tools for developing competence and confidence to work in a more inclusive manner
- Better understand the legal requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act.
Inclusive Health Check (1 Day)
We provide you with a snap-shot of the accessibility of your current marketing, practice and facilities. The assessment will outline the costs and benefits of staff training opportunities and identifying the value of undertaking a more in-depth access audit.
Activity Modules (1 Day each)
These modules will help you to:
- Develop a better understanding of how to deliver inclusive outdoor activities
- Build on your existing coaching knowledge, skills and experience
- Create practical solutions to overcome barriers and perceived problems
- The courses address the needs of national governing bodies, charities, trusts, organisations and local authorities delivering outdoor education, as well as individual activity centres, coaches and instructors.
General Moving and Handling (Half Day)
This course provides all employees with the principles of safe moving and handling.
It is based on the HSE Better Backs Campaign and illustrates good practice in everyday situations common to the outdoor industry. It explores the legislative requirements and practical application of risk assessments and provides line managers with tools to perform formal assessments which may effect operating procedures. It practically introduces a dynamic risk assessment tool for coaches and instructors to identify solutions and manage risk in ‘out of scope’ situations.
Staff Training:
Our range of staff training modules will make it possible for you and your staff to link theory to practice. Our courses aim to ensure that you are able to make the best use of your facility's equipment, ensuring that you can meet your client and staff needs in a cohesive manner.
- Multi-disciplinary disability and equality training
- Diversity coaching and mentoring
- Inclusive coaching and leadership practice
- Disability awareness training for white water raft guides
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Case Study – Earthwatch
We worked with Earthwatch staff in the UK and USA to enable the organisation to become inclusive in its working practices, both with employees and project volunteers, in the office and on fieldwork programmes.
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Case Study - Esprit Rafting
We developed a specific course for Raft Guides to ensure that staff at Esprit Rafting are able to utilize the latest coaching, leadership and equipment to make it possible to create a safe, challenging and inclusive rafting environment.
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Case Study - UHI
Suresh Paul has written and taught an Inclusive Outdoor Adventure module on the Adventure Tourism undergraduate programme at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). With theory applied to practical scenarios, students are able to meet academic requirements while learning useful practices for their future working lives.
We have also given summary lectures at conferences, and to occupational therapy and sports equipment design undergraduates.
