Griffin Adventures provides quality training for todays challenge course facilitator (CCF) Open enrollment trainings allow a CCF to attend a training at one course and facilitate at other similar courses where Griffin Adventures training is accepted.
Open Enrollment Training Schedule
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Course Descriptions
CCF Level 1 Full
This course combines the CCF Level 1 High Elements Only and the CCF Level 1 Spotted Elements Only into one 40 hour training. See the following descriptions for details.
CCF Level 1 High Elements Only
During this 20 hour training, technical skills needed to facilitate high elements on a challenge course will be demonstrated and opportunity for each student to practice these skills in a supervised setting will be made available. Soft skills needed to facilitate high elements such as group assessment and element selection will be discussed and demonstrated throughout. This training does not have any prerequisites, but a general knowledge of challenge courses is recommended.
Skills Covered:
Group Assessment
Element Identification and Selection
Dynamic, Static and Team Belays
Element Inspection and Setup
Equipment Inspection & Care
Knots and Rope Applications
Rescue Techniques (knowledge and recognition of, but not implemented)
Course, Equipment and Facilitator Documentation
Testing Requirements:
Each student must be present and invested during all 20 hours of the training. Practical and written tests will be given with a minimum score of 80% required to gain the Document of Training Completion.
CCF Level 1 Spotted Elements Only
During this 20 hour training, technical skills needed to facilitate spotted elements on a challenge course will be demonstrated and opportunity for each student to practice these skills in a supervised setting will be made available. Soft skills needed to facilitate spotted elements such as group assessment and element selection will be discussed and demonstrated throughout. This training does not have any prerequisites, but a general knowledge of challenge courses is recommended.
Skills Covered:
Group Assessment
Element Identification and Selection
Element Inspection and Setup
Course, Equipment and Facilitator Documentation
Testing Requirements:
Each student must be present and invested during all 20 hours of the training. Practical and written tests will be given with a minimum score of 80% required to gain the Document of Training Completion.
Site/System Specific
Griffin Adventures also offers Site/System specific trainings customized to your organizations needs. Our trainers will come to your site and train your staff only on the challenge course elements and systems at your site. These trainings are normally non-transferable from one site to another unless specifically stated. Hours of the training course are based on the elements and the systems being trained on. Course length can range from the minimum 8 to 40 plus hours.
Document of Training Completion
Griffin Adventures is a Professional Vendor Member, accredited through the ACCT as challenge builders, inspectors and trainers.
Beginning in 2007, the ACCT began reviewing Professional Vendor Members wishing to offer Certification Accreditation. The ACCT has requested that the term “Certification” be reserved for those Professional Vendor Members who have successfully completed the Certification Accreditation Review process.
Currently Griffin Adventures has not applied for a Certification Accreditation Review by the ACCT and in order to maintain compliance with the ACCT, Griffin Adventures has voluntarily modified our language by not using “Certification” in our training's until such time Griffin Adventures chooses to participate in the ACCT Certification Accreditation process.
We wish to assure our clients that all Griffin Adventures training's maintain the same high quality you have come to expect, by meeting or exceeding the current ACCT standards. All Griffin Adventures Training's are accredited through the ACCT. Each student who successfully completes a Griffin Adventures training is given a “Document of Training Completion” which represents successful completion of our professional, first generation training course.
