Experiential Learning Associates

2022! The days lengthen! 🌞 The snow is pristine. ❄️ Hope swirls among the towering pines. We T.H.R.I.V.E.! Tune in! Happy is a choice. Ride the wave. Invite connection. Value all beings. End each day well. RECONNECTION time is here! Group and classroom outdoor programs. Anticipate and welcom...

2022 is here! Schedule a winter ecology field trip or challenge course experience for your group or classroom!

As of August 14, 2021 we will continue to be diligent in managing the Coronavirus. We have not tossed out the masks. We strongly recommend that unvaccinated participants wear masks when in close proximity to others, including outside. You likely will see some of our facilitators wearing masks ...

Here's a great way to rebuild your school, corporate or work culture. La Foret Retreat and Conference Center has it all in Black Forest CO. Beautiful high ropes course, low elements plus super comfy accommodations. Our facilitators are on top of their game, dialed into social emotional learnin...

Open for business! Group programs • Life coaching

For coaching information visit my NEW WEBSITE!

A podcast interview took me down memory lane last month to when we started the Wilderness Camp program at CU Boulder Science Discovery Program. In 1989 we started multi-day overnight trips with the intention of connecting youth to the natural world, outdoor sciences, adventure and community buil...

I’m Coaching! Transformational Coaching!
For over 40 years I’ve developed, instructed, facilitated and administered all kinds of programs…With youth, college students, adults in recovery, corporate groups - in the wilderness, on public lands, on challenge courses and in classrooms. I’m adding a...

ELA is once again offering exciting community building programs! After some time to process how Covid is and has affected daily life, we began to research, attend webinars and practice ways of maintaining physical distance while staying socially connected - crucial to our survival and mental hea...