Based on Kolb’s Theory of Experiential Learning, a key aspect of a challenge course experience is to process an activity after completion. To assist in this, we have created “seating circles”.
Looking much like a campfire ring without the campfire, the circles provide a place for the group to sit down within sight of the obstacle they have just conqured and reflect on their experience.
This reflection process takes many different forms. At times the whole group is engaged in the process, sometimes in partner pairs or small groups. The end goal is to analyze the learning and transfer it to the larger context of life/school/work/family etc.