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Threshold (United Kingdom) is an international consultancy for personal growth, community development and organisational change especially in matters of ethical practices, environmental relations, empowerment and transformation.
The teacher, if he is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind Kahlil Gibran
Threshold is an international consultancy for personal growth, community development and organisational change especially in matters of ethical practices, environmental relations, empowerment and transformation.
Our
purpose is to help people be fulfilled, communities and environments sustained
and organisations and ideas evolve.
Our philosophy is based on the premise that it is individuals that make
the difference and through their thoughts and actions enable groups, communities
and organisations to develop in a way that is connected and dynamic.
The ideas behind the name of Threshold include these
thoughts:
A portal to pass between inner and outer worlds...
A gateway to change, new perspectives and transformations...
A place to meet, to welcome people in and wish them well as they leave...
Somewhere to pause, relax, survey the view and reflect...
bsj e.V. Marburg
bsj e.V. Marburg is a non-profit youth organisation that works with the physical aspects and potentials of life styles. Body, movement and physical expression are the foci of our social work programmes. Outdoor Adventure Education and experiential learning activities are central aspects of our working agenda. Founded in 1986 bsj co-operates with the Department of Physical Education of the Philipps-University Marburg.
The main target groups in our leisure, school and vocational training programmes are male and female social disadvantaged adolescents. bsj is working in social deprived areas, with institution of residential care, schools, projects of social work with youth at risk, in integration projects of handicapped and not handicapped young people. We intend to be an innovative and learning organisation.
As a youth support organisation bsj has been responsible for several communal, regional and cross regional pilot projects, funded by different Federal Ministries and ministries of the Federal State of Hesse and the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.. Since 1993 bsj runs the outdoor centre ZERUM in Ueckermuende which is specialised in using outdoor adventure education for the integration of handicapped girls and boys. In Hesse, we run two other outdoor centres, informal educational establishments, which are specialised in offering projects to schools to innovate the daily school situation. bsj is organising regional and cross regional conferences, offers a wide range of further education for professionals. We are consulting social institutions and communities in developing their social and youth work. Since 1996 bsj is member of EOE (European Institute for Outdoor Adventure Education and Experiential Learning).
EXPERIENTIEL Outdoor Management Development in France
Alain
Kerjean is the founder in France of Experiential Learning and Outdoor
Education (1986). Last book published : "Le caractère plus important que
le C.V" Editions d'Organisation 2003. Today, two organizations develop
this field : - Experientiel-Outdoor Management Development is dedicated
to provinding training wich support the development of teams and organisations
- Association Apprendre par l'expérience for youth and educators, member
of the european project Non-Formal education through outdoor activities
(2004-2006) http://www.experientiel.com
Our Centre was founded by Alain Kerjean, precursor of the Experiential
Learning &
Outdoor Education in France .
Since 1986, this pedagogy has been successfully used in France for management
(business schools, management training centres and major companies like
Hewlett-Packard, Digital, Exxon chemical, Pernod, General Electric Medical
Systems, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, La Poste, Ericsson, Avery Dennison, Alcatel,
Axa, etc.
« The strength of this training is that the common sense principles
teached in every management course are here memorized by the body and
will have a more long-lasting influence, a more effective transposition
in the company's reality » HEWLETT-PACKARD's feedback report
Our seminars are proposed in the forest of Fontainebleau, 65 km South
of Paris. We use a seminars centre and hotel*** with spa. We have there
among others exercices, the ropes-course, a powerful challenge to built
a team and develop trust and communication. In cooperation with our partners
in an european network, we are abble to design multicultural programms.
For more details and documentation, please contact Alain KERJEAN Tél
& Fax 33 1 39 1 51 81 48 E-mail : experientiel@numericable.fr Internet
: www.experientiel.com
Our sister organization for Education, Youth and Welfare programmes is
:
Association APPRENDRE PAR L'EXPERIENCE
Tél & Fax : 33 1 39 02 18 00 Email : APE@numericable.fr Internet
: www.experientiel.com
TRAP (Netherlands)
TRAP is a Netherlands organisation which was founded in 1995. TRAP addresses to young persons who have a lot of psychosocial difficulties in their process of growing up. Especially those young persons are the target group of TRAP who are not anymore involved in any institutions of the social welfare services. Based on year long practical experiences with this target group, founders of TRAP developed several programmes with the aim to activate the young persons in becoming more self-acting. As most of the young persons do not have an idea of their future and can only be motivated through their own interests, all programmes start with practical working projects.
Experiential learning and adventure based methods are part of the concept. To live and to work together in an unknown and adventurous surrounding is the central point of the projects. It gives the young persons the possibility to overcome old patterns and habitual models of behaviour and ways of acting. Therefore the first of the three parts program takes place in Czech Republic. For 3-5 months the young persons live there and work either at a camping site or in a pension. TRAP also plans to start a farm-project there. The daily work plays a central role in the program. Work gives time a structure and organises the lapse of the day. Besides, the social and individual value of work can be experienced directly because the meaning as well as success and failure of work is obvious. This gives the young persons the opportunity to reflect and discuss their identity. During their stay the social workers organise from time to time walking-, skiing- or canoe-tours. Purpose of these tours is to find out together with the young persons the reasons and the expectations for their stay. The experiences show, that although the program is absolutely voluntary for the young persons, they often get the feeling of being sent on it. After 3-5 months in Czech Republic the second part of the program is back in the Netherlands.
The young persons live for a while in a home and exercise the confrontation with their social surrounding. They realize that they changed a lot but not reality in the Netherlands. In the third and last part of the program the young persons live again with their families but they still stay in contact to the TRAP pedagogues for a while.
If you are interested in more details of this organisation, please contact: Bart Keus Postbus 570 6500 AN Nijmegen Netherlands e-mail: trap1ned@worldonline.
