Safeguard, Monitor and Validate

Identify and defend.

Helping to regulate and evolve a sector that currently lacks regulation and specific training will help to improve practices only if we can identify those who strive to offer quality.

Team building activities and outdoor training are not normally analysed in specific praxiological terms, being based on sport and recreational situations without any rationale from a pedagogical point of view. They therefore lack any justification as a specific tool that is useful in experiential training.

The lack of thorough studies on the behaviours generated by motor activities has led many companies, identifying demands in the labour market, to offer services without any pedagogical control, intuitively, which has to some extent "prostituted" this activity, confusing clients and devaluing motor action as an educational and training tool.

There are companies that guarantee results in personal changes and skills learning, together with an assessment of the participants, but they do not base these on any scientific criterion or foundation, nor have they previously validated or analysed the activities proposed. Consequently, they cannot provide any specific description since they do not really know what is happening during the activity.

So the motor activities used by these companies can only be supposed to have a leisure and recreational value but never any pedagogical validity.

Experiential Engineering provides these references and therefore adds value to what these companies do, helping them to obtain real training based on the experience of guided and previously validated situations. That's why it's essential to retrain these firms and avoid such practices, and the quality stamp is a guarantee.

We must be sure about why we're using a specific situation. Motor activities are not "good" or in themselves but only according to when, how and why they are being used. Used wisely, they can be very powerful catalysts but they are also very dangerous and can cause adverse or contrary effects if not applied correctly.

Intuition is a bad guide and simple trial and error is not valid. There must be reliable criteria with regard to why a certain activity is being used. This is studied by Motor Praxiology and applied by those who have been specifically trained - Praxiologists.