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Wellventure
is a series of experiential workshops that are designed to impart life-long
skills in personal wellness and immediate gains in relaxation and enjoyment.
Classes are both indoors and outdoors. Our indoor programs are designed to deliver
practical skills for well-being, emotional control, and improving creativity.
They are designed around fun, interactive activities but are also always discreet
and respectful of the privacy of the individual. With the Southwest as our outdoor
classroom we will explore the interpenetrating relationships of the environment
with a mind to what ecology and cultural histories can tell us about our health
and happiness.
An Explanation of Holistic Health Education
These health awareness seminars make accessible comprehensive, wholeness-based
explanations and exercises on wellness and individuality.
We are focused on bringing you into a greater sense of self-reliance and authentic
empowerment through retreats, seminars and mini-workshops that combine adventure
with ecological principles, health awareness ideas, and stress management tools.
We offer courses that combine classroom learning with outdoor exploration. Our
aim is to give you an enjoyable and thorough understanding of your place in
the big picture and a comprehension of the positive effects that a life lived
through individual expression and respect for nature brings.
Corporate Wellness Adventures
Welcome to ECOSOUTHWEST.COM seminars on Wellness and Stress Management! Through
our unique combination of education and adventure travel, we will customize
for your business an that provides the answer to the question, "What is
wellness?"
We offer you a proven blend of ancient and modern approaches to life-long wellness
and stress management. We have some great ideas on wellbeing that hinges on
your individual metabolic personality and how you are tied intimately and inextricably
to your environment.
We want take you out into the wild beauty of the majestic Colorado Plateau and
Four Corners Region to experience life and learn wellness and stress management.
Through our experiential approach to learning, practice becomes permanent,
exciting experiences fortify the information you receive, and enjoyable activities
bring you very personally into the learning we facilitate.
We will tailor the action to your tastes, mild or wild. We set out to make sure
that you have a ball and that you experience first hand, and safely, the grandeur
of nature. Rafting on the many rivers of the plateau, backpacking in the myriad
canyons and ranges of Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, mountain biking and touring
in the year-round perfect climates of the Southwest, exploring otherworldly
canyons where your houseboat can't go but your sea kayak can....these are the
foundations for our Wellness and Stress Management Education. Of course, expect
delicious, nutritious food, and also expect to come away with many new self-awareness
tactics, greater understanding of your reactions and resiliency under stress,
and importantly, a plan for future personal wellness that will always have you
finding the true 'joy' of enjoyment.
WELLVENTURE PROGRAMS
The Southwest is our home and from that beautiful country our programs extend out into the Americas in English and in Spanish. The mountains rivers and valleys, her brooks and streams and rivers, her living and ancient cultures are our classrooms and our teachers. Biodiversity and cultural awareness combined with self-discovery and a healthy dose of clowning around will make these experiences lasting ones.
Outing
or Training?
You get to choose the length of the program that suits your group best.
We have two flavors of stress management adventure.
An outing is a concise and concentrated blast of fun and learning, a program
that covers all of the basic interconnections between wellness and ecology,
and that takes you deep into the fantasy-land beauty of the Southwest.
The stress management outings are one-day, three-day, and week-long activity-filled
explorations of the mountains, rivers and canyons of Arizona and the greater
Southwest, including the Sierra Madre and Sonoran Desert of Mexico. You set
the fun-meter at your own levels.
The trainings are more in-depth and we explore self-reliance and eco-mindfulness
while immersed in the wilderness, finding out how being under your own power
can change your ideas about 'power.' We will find empowerment in exploring and
learning.
Wellness trainings are four days and longer and get us deeper into the wilderness
and to the themes of stress-management and human potential. There is a world
of adventure learning available for us to explore. These courses can take us
deep into the beauty of North and South America and return us with a deep appreciation
for our abilities and graces in personal health and potential for achievement.
Some Suggestions of the Kinds of Activities Available For the Outings and the Trainings:
Mountain Biking and Camping and Van-supported bike trips
Crown King Challenge in the Bradshaw Mountains, AZ
The Mogollon Rim
Grand Canyon Country
Flat-water Rafting
The Colorado River near Moab, UT
The Green River
Rio Palena, Baker, Bio Bio (Chile)
White-water Rafting
The Grand Canyon, AZ
The Kern River, CA
Futaleufu, Bio bio, Baker (Chile)
Trekking
Copper Canyon, Mex.
Patagonian Chile and The Bariloche Region of Argentina
Houseboat / Kayak explorations
Lake Powell
The Islands of Chiloe, Chile
The Eco-Wellness Field Edventure Series
This is our most comprehensive adventure learning program. In our Southwestern
U.S. open air classrooms we provide you with all the tools necessary for lifelong
stress management.
Part 1 - The Ecology of Havasupai Canyon
The beauty and history of this brilliant riparian jewel provides the ultimate
backdrop for the first seminar in the series. Here we introduce the basis for
ecological health awareness while relaxing in the spray of the magical hundred-foot
waterfalls, lolling in crystal-clear blue-green pools, and hiking between and
along the sheer canyon walls.
4-days: Hiking w/daypacks & camping.
Part 2 - Sedona and the Red Rocks: Light and Shadow
The second seminar in the series will take place in a special canyon in the
Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness. The absolute natural beauty of the Sedona
area buoy the message of the seminar, individuality and personal expression.
Traveling under our own power we will explore self-reliance skills and open
up the subject of self and identity to the elements, and see where the wind
blows us.
3-days: Backpacking, camping, and rock scrambling.
Part 3 - The Mogollon Rim: Mountain Bikes, Tall Pines
& You
The immense Colorado Plateau that forms the extensive Four-Corners region of
Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico is itself a study of contrasts and identity
shaped by time and circumstance. The Plateau ends abruptly in the Mogollon Escarpment,
a 2000-4000 foot high and 300-mile long region of Ponderosa pines and 100-mile
vistas criss-crossed by dirt roads and trails ideally suited for mountain cycling
and camping. In this unspoilt wild land we will continue our explorations into
wellness, adventure and the elements of personal style.
3-days: Vehicle-supported cycling, hiking, camping.
Part 4 - Colorado River Rafting: 3-days of delicious rafting
or kayaking
The famous Colorado River that flows through the Grand Canyon is the host for
our last edventure. Terrific waves, hot sun, the imposing imensity of Grand
Canyon, and serene, sandy beaches for camping make for one unbelievable outdoor
education experience. With a small flotilla of rafts and kayaks we will pursue
with success the elusive 'good time' and in the process round out a toolbox
with life-skills to enhance every days journey through homelife, health, and
vocation.
4-days: Paddling, hiking, camping.
Adult Programs
Eco-Health Lectures and Workshops
These are one- to two-hour lectures and discussions designed especially for
a lay audience that will provide insights on many popular health and science
topics. We will come to your club, school or organization and provide enjoyable,
non-dogmatic viewpoints on subjects ranging from ecology to travel to food science.
The Basis For Individuality
Fun, thought-provoking ideas and activities to help you understand what makes
your self and others tick.
Ecology, Symbiosis, and Health
A journey into nature's secrets that will unlock the wisdom of your body.
Health Wisdom for the World Traveler
A kit-bag of tools for the international traveler to avoid health problems.
Customized Nutrition and Food Wisdom
The world of food is fascinating and complex, just like your body's needs.
Learn how to make appropriate choices for energy and clarity.
Metabolic Typing Services and 4-D - Identity Consultations
Metabolic Typing and our own comprehensive Metabolic Identity Typing Program
are modern, technology, psychology, and physiology-based profiling systems founded
on millennial observations of individual biochemical and psychological expression.
Our belief is that in self-knowledge lies authentic power. These simple, thorough
biochemical testing services allow us to help you to determine your current
metabolism and your ideal metabolism and to find the gentle path between.
All of the Wellventure seminars include this screening as a prerequisite. It
is an assurance that we make to each and every participant that the results
of these test and all subsequent identity profile exercises will remain completely
private and confidential.
First know thyself, says the ancient Greek maxim.
Wellventure: Eco-Health and Applied Kinesiology
A 1-day retreat to the Yavapai hill county of Central Arizona where you will
explore the bases of ecology-minded health and the stress management applications
of applied physiology. These are simple, fun outdoor-classroom learning sessions
that will provide you with wellness tools for the short term and the long. These
classes are appropriate for fun-loving students of all ages: youth, adults,
and elders.
School Programs
These are customized Adventures in Learning that will stimulate all the curiosities
of the young mind. We won't just go to cool places, we will experience them
fully. Through anthropology and natural history, through non-motorized travel
on foot, on bike, by raft, canoe, and kayak, and through real cross-cultural
interaction your students will experience the wonders of our world that are
right in our own backyard.
Physical Education Programs
This is a pro-active school program that will take kids who are already on the
path to learning much further along in their pursuit of academic and career
success. The programs can also rescue your indecisive students and help them
to find their paths.
We want to invite your students to an awesome outdoor learning experience. We offer an exciting addendum to your physical health education classes with adventure-based stress management and personal ecology courses. Your students will have an activity-filled cultural and natural history exploration of the Colorado Plateau region of the Southwest and will learn about personal well-being and active learning.
We will tailor the program to the specific interests of your students. Backpacking, mountain biking, rafting, kayaking, canoeing or even just excursions in caravan: we will ramble through ruins and deep canyons and rocky valleys with your company's needs firmly set in a customized program.
School Programs -- For Students & Parents
The Human Body -- Structure, Function, and Interdependence
A holistic explanation of the body, the body-mind, and the interaction of the
body with its environment.
Individuality 101 - Uniqueness=Self-Esteem
Easy, pro-active, non-judgemental ideas on customizing diet and lifestyle so
that each family can attain greater communication and harmony.
Dirt Isn't Dirty / You Are Not Alone
The scoop on the scientific and experiential realities of ecology and humanity.
You Are What You Metabolize
A digest of ideas from metabolic typing theory that will help students and parents
understand each other and to find each person's path to success.
Wellventure -- Guest Speaker on Eco-Health
Designed especially for Grade School and High School physical education classes
for public, private, charter, and intentional schools.
This is a pro-active, interactive health education series that helps students
to acknowledge and build upon their self-identity and self-confidence. The presentations
will provide a toolbox full of stress-management skills in the shape of insights
into self-expression, global themes in health awareness, and fun, practical
uses of movement and sport for all types of students.
Liquid Learning
Rafting for Transpersonal and Eco-Health Awareness
A special whitewater adventure-based wellness and stress management retreat
to help your family, school group, club, organization or business to find that
healthy balance between work and life.
We offer this as a 1-day, 2-day or 3-day retreat on the following rivers in
the SW United States.
Flat-water Rafting
The Colorado River near Moab, UT
The Green River
Rio Palena, Baker, Bio Bio (Chile)
White-water Rafting
The Grand Canyon, AZ
The Kern River, CA
Futaleufu, Bio bio, Baker (Chile)
It's Wellventure on the Water.
This program will put you and your associates "back in the flow".
ECOSOUTHWEST.COM Corporate Outings
Day-Long and 1/2-Day Programs For Corporate Health
Take time out from your meeting schedule to do some important team building and stress management. Prescott's cool pine forests are just the place for revitalization!
Team building Challenges in Prescott's friendly pine forests.
Ropes Courses, Horseback Riding, Cycling, Hiking
Stress Management Seminars -- De-Stress, Relaxation, Eco-Health
Stress Management, Eco-Health, Individuality, and Productivity seminars are
available year round. However, Ropes Course facilities are only available from
March through the end of May and from September through early November. These
programs must be booked at least one month in advance in order to insure availability.
Cycling and horseback riding programs are also subject to availability. For
safety reasons, outdoor programs are subject to cancellation or postponement
due to weather.
At ECOSOUTHWEST.COM we feel our approach to environmental and educational touring
is a popular ideal worth supporting and we want to leave our guests with an
enriching and memorable experience, not just sightseeing. Because our guides
(your hosts) are highly qualified and experiential educators, historians, and
field naturalists working in a variety of specialties, we can meet the commitment
to help strike a better balance between human
demands we place upon the environment and the general long-term wellness of
the planet.
SINGLES CLUB (Focused Material)
An adventure getaway for singles in the friendly pine forests of Yavapai County (Prescott, Arizona).
What:
A two-day adventure learning outing for action and wellness! Come up to our
Prescott retreat for ropes challenges, a bike maintenance clinic and plenty
of riding. First, we roll up through the vast pine forests of the Bradshaws
and the Sierra Prieta, the largest in the lower 48, swooping up and down on
kind dirt roads and trails to arrive at the Friendly Pines camp where we have
one of the finest and safest ropes courses in the state. With professional facilitators
you will zip through the air, form cooperative strategies to complete the many
movement puzzles the course has for you, and generally laugh your heads off
at the exhilaration of it. If you know these courses, then you will recognize
all of the favorite low elements and high elements, the team building and cooperation
elements. But what will surprise and please you is our very original integration
with lifestyle and wellness coaching. A little adventure, some practical skills
for cycling and relaxation, and lots of interaction with your group. The accommodations
are nothing fancy, rustic wooden cabins tucked between swaying Ponderosa pine
on a breezy, wooded slope in the mountains above the city. Clean, comfortable,
private.
Our affiliates are all nondenominational, our only message is one of building self-esteem and self-efficacy, and promoting cooperation though fun. As such, we invite all races and creeds to share in these programs.
This outing is specifically geared for 20 and 30-something singles who are
fit and avid cyclists. These two-day outings are ideal for singles clubs looking
for the worthwhile getaway plan! Unless otherwise specified,
unaffiliated adult singles can sign on up for any scheduled outing. Private
group arrangements can also be made with adequate notice. The retreat welcomes
family and business outings also under other programs specially tailored for
their needs
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