One Impact Week - Adventure Day -Wednesday by Mark Quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav The practical stuff... en-us 2016-11-14 11:45:38 UTC 2024-05-26 00:31:41 UTC hello@padlet.com One Impact Week mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/135788817 Our brief is to design a day around adventure and how we use it at Impact.

- Filter people into ability/experience groups
-Why bother with adventure?
-What does it give/risk?
-Do something to get people to recollect their most adventurous moments.
-Those groups do a small, uncomfortable "adventurous' experience and discuss what is adventure for them, and what are the salient factors that can be transferred to any situation to make it adventurous.
-They will then consult with another group and design them an adventurous afternoon. and so on. Not, for each other  to prevent collusion.  The design will be around style, objectives, theme; rather than specifics.  
-We can then offer out all the possibilities and let the negotiation and consideration begin...
-Need some overall objectives for the day.

]]> 2016-11-07 14:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/135788817 How to Filter the groups mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/136026849 -Line outs on a continuum 1-10
-What scares you more - social interactions (theatre) vs physical well being (abseiling)
-What scares you more Fear of Failure vs Fear of missing opportunities
-Where do you get your energy - with people or in your own company
-Do you prefer changing environments]]> 2016-11-08 09:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/136026849 Thoughts from Slack on the difference between adventure and challenge mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137323723 Challenging - Something that has come your way, often unforeseen, and is acknowledged and usually needs to be dealt with. Adventurous - A personal choice !

rachaelgarner [4:52 PM]  
I don't think trying to define or compare  either matters at all

Roy White [5:47 PM]  
Challenging: up to 10% above your current level. 
Adventurous:  Doing something completely out of your comfort zone. Unlikely, you have done it before.

Jeremy Benton [9:24 PM]  
from the great book - challenging - testing one's abilities; demanding.

[9:25]  
Adventurous - willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences.

rachaelgarner [9:28 PM]  
Adventurous - testing ones abilities; demanding. Challenging - willing to talk risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences. There will be a dictionary definition for sure, but that will be just an opinion. I say both words mean whatever you want them to mean. X

Simon Coker [10:16 PM]  
Challenging is something that’s hard but you know needs to be done to achieve the goal and where you know what has to be done and how it will stretch you.  Adventurous has the element of unknown and uncertainty of process and outcome - you start out not knowing how this is going to be pan out.  That’s what makes it feel risky. (edited)

Dominic Fitch [10:24 PM]  
Adventurous is fun and exciting and brings to mind Indiana jones or a romantic knight on a quest, challenging is a bit of a ball ache and is the same adjective you can use to describe something mundane like a tax return.

Jonathan Stevens [10:24 PM]  
Worth a quick read - one could say the same over- protection  is true for a lot of our clients; http://www.lotc.org.uk/why/risk-challenge-and-adventure/ (edited)

andy dickson [11:02 PM]  
challenge - out of comfort zone   Adventure - journey with an uncertain outcome

Graeme Kirkup [9:29 AM]  
Interested to hear your view @markquest

Mark Quest [11:37 AM]  
Challenge, for me, is operating on the limit of my abilities be it physical, social, emotional, intellectual.               

Adventure has challenge in it but is driven by what I value and hold dear to me, it's open ended and has unknowns in it and is definitely consequential to my values. So I value my abilities to be in mountainous environments that could really harm me if I don't rise to the challenges that the mountains bring.  I bring my skills and knowledge and reflections to the Direct encounter and dance along the tightrope of success/reward and failure/disappointment

Grahame Broadbelt [11:43 AM]  
nice, i like it @markquest

Mark Quest [11:50 AM]  
So my reflection as a facilitator/instructor/guide is how can I design and deeply consider the adventure I offer my clients so that they can all have engaging, consequential and differentiated experiences. I'm seeing it all as a metaphorical cake which we are at impact baking to perfection all the time, I want to really understand the ingredients and the recipe 



]]> 2016-11-14 11:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137323723 mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137329556 2016-11-14 12:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137329556 Create your own adventure plan for back at work mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137356967
Post work could be to encourage people to take the process and reflections and create an adventure at work.  To see if we can, and how easily we can transfer abstract learning back to our reality.

It could be for people to have micro-adventures with their teams when some adventure is needed. Innovate, have courage and creativity; and importantly, share this with the wider  Impact Family on Slack

Encourage people to develop 'Out of a suitcase" adventures and share them on slack.

Possibly send this out in the new year, with an evaluation...?]]> 2016-11-14 13:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137356967 mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137383077 2016-11-14 14:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137383077 mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137383078 2016-11-14 14:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137383078 mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137383080 2016-11-14 14:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137383080 Reflection mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137398865 -On what constitutes adventure for me as an individual?
-How do collective adventures differ from my adventures as an individual?
-What benefits do I get from adventure?  Can I quantify this?
-What goes on amongst a group of people when they share an adventure?
-Can we plan our own adventure deliberately and with care, or is this missing the point?
-How much do things like MBTI play into this?









]]> 2016-11-14 15:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137398865 Have a massive RACER up somewhere mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137655376 Responsible
Adventur
Custom
Experiential
Results]]> 2016-11-15 10:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137655376 Adventure Survey pre work mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137787610 -need a set of questions
-some videos would be great, record and put on the adventure slack channel
-Countries could bring along thoughts on what constitutes adventure for them and or eat those use for the adventurous part in their country
-email mark a photo of an adventure they have had
-maybe people could bring 'Adventurous Snacks' from their country?
-Participants to bring along a 'Show and Tell' item, image on phone or just story about an adventure they have had.  Could be work, family, fun, leisure.
-Create video snippets of adventures they are having and post on slack (no clients).

Questions
1. Describe what adventure and challenge mean to you.

2. What was a great adventure you had? And what made it an adventure?

4. Rank the following in order of importance in your adventures: 

uncertain outcome, challenge, physical risk, emotional risk, consequence, based around my values, solo, collaborative, in 'stretch', driven by me, offered by others, 

5. Which do you prefer?

outdoor adventure or indoor adventure

intellectual adventures or physical adventure

collaborative adventure or solo adventure

personal consequence or consequences for others

3. What does adventure bring to your world?

4. What Impact adventures have you experienced before (make a list)

]]> 2016-11-15 16:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/137787610 Slide show during the initial phase mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138347676 Adventure images
Quotes from Survey
Videos from pre work
Quotes from Slack
Quotes from literature]]> 2016-11-17 10:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138347676 Mini-adventures mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138355245 Make a big map of possibilities, get some people lined up to head them up if needed.

Wetsuits and my tents in the South Boathouse

Whatever they do, it has to be adventurous for them:

  • Flint and steel fire lighting and making a brew (my pots) under tarp/parachute (cotton wool, saw dust) - Briery woods - Mark Q - 8 people
  • Xmas song...
  • Driving test with Mark Sanders (whole group critique their driving, clipboards) 6 people - Mark Sanders - Van 9
  • Fancy dress role play Create a costume from someone else clothes and props and then build a character around it. Act it out for the afternoon.@ Briery - Dom or Paul Rose???
  • Spend 1hr solo doing nothing. Just sit in silence. Become aware of your thoughts. Focus on your breathing. Notice the world around you. Become comfortable with the silence and stillness. - Briery wood  - solo
  • Innovation lab - Create an experiential exercise around responsible leadership  KJ - Briery wood
  • Drama games with Dom
  • Write a story where you’re the heroine of your own action adventure fantasy and share it on Slack or read it to an audience - Briery wood
  • Learn 4 sentences in a foreign language together that you don't already know and find a native speaker to use them with. - Briery wood
  • Learn some magic tricks on the internet and try them out on people and then perform them during the Xmas Party  - Briery wood
  • photo strategy (no staff) - Briery wood
  • Slack lining at Briery wood Mark Q - 8 people
  • Jog and dip from Briery to boathouse - Jane S - 8 participants - 1 PCV bus
  • Yole - Dave - 8 people - 1 PCV bus
  • Canoes (rafted or tandem). Pooley/Dave 8 people
  • Pamper pole blindfolded - lofty - 10 people - 1 PCV bus
  • Sheep herding, get them in the pen - David / Marshy - 10 people? - 1 bus (driver?)???
Whatever they do, they should try and document it, video snippets and photos.
]]> 2016-11-17 11:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138355245 Hammock Camp- tuesday night mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138378616 Make a hammock camp for folk to use if they want to....


Create a camp with the hammocks, parachute up, fire pits, cook dinner over them, people can stay or go back to hotel.

Do a 'so what']]> 2016-11-17 13:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138378616 The Grand Adventure Plan... mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/138383052
9:00am Warm up - 15 min
-In plenary they move around the space keeping near to someone but they can't know that person can't know they are being followed.
-'That person represents the best, most motivating, enjoyable, satisfying, engaging adventure you could have'
-Now pick someone else, don't let them know you've picked them, and keep person 1) (best adventure) between you and your new person.
-'This person represents the most panic ridden, stressful, horrible badly planned, pointless adventure you could have!'
-Finish moving around.  Now go and find those people and tell them the adventure that they represented.

9:15am Quads - 15mins - 15 quads
Now pick a word that represents adventure for you in your life. Sticker it to forehead. Now create quads that have as much diversity in them as possible, but no talking! Can use mime, make noises, sign language, but no words. The quads would be great if the people in them don't know each other that well and represent a mix of countries and functions.

9:30am Adventurer appears (Spunky) - 15min
An adventurer poses questions what is adventure? What does an adventurer look like? Group questions I want new adventures, I know what I do really well, what else is out there?  If you're at the top of the game change the game

9;45am Show and Tell - 45min
Each person in the quad gets 10min to clearly, passionately describe/act/play video of their adventure in an Impactful, inspiring way.  It should highlight their comfort zones, aspirations and what they values about themselves

10:30 Break

11:00 Mini-Adventures - selection 15min

The quads are now going to select 1 or more mini adventures for each other based on each persons comments, values, etc etc. 

Considering what makes an adventure and specifically for that person.  The Quads now choose each others adventures.  The objectives are that by the end of the session they will have 
  • experienced an adventure chosen for them based on their prior experiences, comfort zones, aspirations and what they values about themselves.
  • be able to consider what the right adventure for them brings to an experience.
  • contemplated Adventure at Impact, why and how we currently use it and how we could grow and improve this in the future (video diary)
There will be a list of adventures and sign up sheets with a briefing sheet attached showing what they need to bring, timings, where to meet, who is facilitating it, etc.

We'll have a menu of them on a digital platform. Then sign up sheets on a table.

11:15 Mini-Adventures - 1hr

Go have their adventures. Aim to reflect on them an capture some reflections and moments on video or photo or text and slack it.

12:30 Lunch -1hr
Adventurous Buffet lunch with the option to pop it into a bag and take away.

'Ask someone you don't really know to come to lunch with you.  Your combined objective is to do something different, something new, something awkward and uncomfortable, whatever that is.  It could be to use chopsticks, or just a straw, it could be to go outside and sit in the hammocks or light the fire, it could be learn some sentences in a new language or to complete some of your badge challenges.

1:30pm - 2hr
Meet in plenary at Briery Wood.

With your lunch buddy, choose an arena for your own adventure, the purpose is a 2 hour deeper delve into an adventure.  There will be a briefing sheet for each group that sets out an agenda. IE: Need to appoint a facilitator to keep the conversations and reflections going and a film maker to capture peoples thoughts, on what makes a great adventure, what it needs, what hinders it and most importantly how to have one anywhere and provide one for your team/group/etc anywhere with no kit or resources.  The adventure isn't set, but instead will evolve from the group and should have something different than usual about it.  They will conclude the adventure by posting some reflections/video/images on a slack channel

3:30pm
At some point we'll get back together and play whatever videos people made of their adventures, get in your quads and discuss the following thoughts (these could be posted on Slack):

Courage

Creative Change agency

Describe elements of our journey as a creative change process

Create a series of questions fro the video snippets

Need a list of micro and macro adventures


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mark sanders, jane smith, lofty, dave pearce, mark quest
how many vans do we need?
boats come off the water
need as much detail as possible, i.e.: need to move this many people from here to there...
need a list of drivers

wednesday needs to be wrapping up by 3:30pm

No ghyll


]]> 2016-11-21 12:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/139060206 Adventures on the back of your badge mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/139085842
On the back of their badges they will al have 5 different Adventures that they can choose to have and challenge each other if they don't have at some point throughout the week.

They based around RACER

Could be:

  • R - connect with someone you don't yet know, or don't know well enough
  • A - Doing something that challenges you every day
  • C - Do something that specifically benefits someone else's needs
  • E - Take one picture each hour of something experiential that you could show to clients.
  • R - Achieve something that that you see real value in

  • Take a different photograph of the colour red 25 times
  • Leave a message in an envelope and hide it around Impact for someone to find. In it is an adventure that you will write now, that you want to the person that finds it to challenge you to do. Give some examples. It should involve the other person in some way.   
]]> 2016-11-21 13:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/139085842 Your Adventure - Macro Adventures mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/140683587
Outdoor (lofty, pooley, mark, dave, dave, jane, mark q, scott? spunky safety boat, )
A 2 hour deeper delve into an adventure.  To experience and sculpt an adventure to pull the salient points 

Chosen by the individual through a consultation with their lunch buddy.

Themed, but then driven by a joint conversation with the technical support and them.

Themes are, give a description:

Wilderness/mountain - Mark Q - 8 people van 9
-self led hill walk (not over 250m)

On the Stage - Dom -12 people - Briery wood
Choose love or hate

In the Streets - x 8 - 1 van - Jayne
36 random acts of kindness with a budget of £36.00

Underground  - 2:5 (max 10 people) Dave and Pooley - 1 bus
-Sump

On the Water - Mark + Lofty - 16 people - 1 bus -
-Raft build
-Yoling
-Jump off powerboat and team swim in

Find our voice - KJ - 10 max- Briery Wood
Come up with a narrative around why a client should take responsible leadership seriously.
Ending with a 5 min presentation to Sue Hunt


Objectives are:
  • it should aim to contain all the elements of a great adventure
  • It should aim to have something different than usual about it
  • A facilitator should be appointed by the group from with in it to keep the conversations and reflections 
  • A film maker 
  • Create digital footage on peoples thoughts on what makes a great adventure, what it needs, what hinders it and most importantly how to have one anywhere and provide one for your team/group/etc anywhere with no kit or resources.  
  • They will conclude the adventure by posting some reflections/video/images on a slack channel




]]> 2016-11-29 22:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/140683587 Adventurous Lunch mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/140743181 Ask someone you don't really know to come to lunch with you.  Your combined objective is to do something different, something new, something awkward and uncomfortable, whatever that is.  

-Could be to use chopsticks, or just a straw, -could be to go outside and sit in the hammocks or light the fire, 
-it could be learn some sentences in a new language 
-to complete some of your badge challenges. 
-Eat lunch blindfolded.
-Someone else chooses your lunch for you.
-Spend the lunch saying yes to every new opportunity that comes your way.
-don't complain for the entire lunch
say yes to everything you are offered over lunch
-Grab it as a picnic and be outside. 
-waffle making at the fire pit

]]> 2016-11-30 09:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/140743181 CAL table top adventures mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/140772698 five ideas for the tea dance participants to take part in: 
-game of bingo 
-making xmas cards
-origami
-cake decorating
-making crackers (buy some kits)
-xmas hats, then in their group
-they’ve got to rehearse a song that they are going to sing to the others.
-listening to their favourite music (spotify)
-games, puzzles, etc 
-Then collate all the kit with conner
-Sharing this story by adding it to the participants boiler suits]]> 2016-11-30 12:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/140772698 resource area mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/141346829 we need a kit dump/resource area]]> 2016-12-02 11:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/141346829 Kit for tuesday wednesday mark_quest https://padlet.com/mark_quest/shjib8l7yqav/wish/142998645 Hammocks x 7
Tarps x 7
Paracord
Throwline
Knife axe, sparkers, cotton wool
2 fire pits
bucket
glowsticks
marshmallows
bamboo skewers

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