Become An Adventure Retreat Leader

Are you a Life Coach, Teacher, Therapist, or other Helping Professional who:

* Has an adventurous streak that just has to come out?
* Wants to integrate your business with your passion for travel, adventure, nature, the outdoors and retreats?
* Knows the value of getting your clients or students away from their normal routine?
* Values nature and understands how it can shift people in an instant?

Let us help you begin offering Adventures and Retreats as an exciting component to your
business.
Live and Recorded training options are available at Adventure Retreat Leader

Learn:
* How and where to find your perfect adventure/retreat setting
* How to market your offerings
* Where to find participants
* How to set fees and handle registration
* What to say in e-mail invitations, flyers or brochures
* Creating a theme for your outing
* Creating a retreat series
* Registration, cancellations, policies, etc.
* The little things that will make you crazy and how to avoid them
* How to work with outfitters and vendors
* How to create an ongoing retreat "engine" to keep your retreats full with participants who pay well
* And much more!

1. Adventure Can Be Simple
Too often we think of adventure as this big thing we have to plan and put together. Arrangements need to be made, schedules coordinated, time secured, etc. Now that can take the adventure right out of adventure! Adventure can be as simple as just stepping out your door with no plan in mind.

2. Hang Out With An Adventurer
Do you know someone who has an adventurous nature? Spend some time with them. Adventurers love to lead others into uncharted territory.

3. Adventure Is An Attitude
Get that and you will find adventure in everything you do.

4. Go To The Wilds
True, adventure can be found at work, home and even in a good book. But in the wilderness, your senses become more acute. You'll smell, see, hear and feel more. A sun-soaked rock can feel as good as a down-covered bed; a light breeze or a cool lake as good as a full body massage; a campfire more wonderful than turning up the furnace; a field of flowers or just plain old earth more scent-filled than the best perfume. The best place to start with adventure is to let you body sense where all adventure comes from, the wilds.

5. Move Your Body
You'll see this in most of my top ten lists. Your body knows more than your mind ever will. Hone it.

6. Be A Child
When you were five, adventure came naturally. What did you love doing at that age? Do it. Yes, this may mean you'll have to get in the sandbox, on a swing, hang from the monkey bars or lead the cat around by a toy at the end of a string. (Hint: Kittens and puppies can teach you a lot about adventure)

7. Take The Dog For A Walk
Let him or her lead. See The Top Ten Reasons To Take Your Dog For a Walk.

8. When The Directions Say Turn Right, Turn Left

9. Make Choices In Seconds
Not, hours or days. If you can't decide in a few seconds, then choose not to choose. Let it go as though you never had the choice.

10. Find a Creek and Follow It
Upstream, downstream, it doesn't matter