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    At Life Adventure Center, we use numerous modaliti At Life Adventure Center, we use numerous modalities to help build resilience and self-regulation in our participants. This week we’re going to learn more about how we use some of our challenge course elements! We build up to getting on the climbing wall and high course. Before moving to the highs, every participant engages in ground school. This allows staff to assess the individual to ensure that their communication and attention will be safe for them to enter our course. This time allows the participant to get a feeling of how the equipment feels, to practice communicating, and get filled in on the expectations and skills that they can take to the high course. LAC staff helps the participant process this experience as an application to situations in their lives. Practicing skills helps participants feel prepared for a situation or experience and highlights the importance of communication and the support of peers in achieving your goals. Most importantly, it helps them gain confidence in their skills as they start small in a controlled environment before moving forward to larger goals. Think back to our post on Wednesday, where you imagined you were on the zipline, wind in your hair, and full of pride about what you had accomplished, with numerous skills to take with you back into your life. Now imagine that same experience for kids affected by trauma in your community. How might it help a child to learn that they are capable of more than they imagined, or that they can set clear boundaries defined by their choice that will be respected by adults, or that they can achieve what they set their mind to if they can practice, communicate their needs, and assemble a support network? Do you want to help give that child the skills to change their life? We can help!
    At Life Adventure Center, we use numerous modaliti At Life Adventure Center, we use numerous modalities to help build resilience and self-regulation in our participants. This week we are sharing more about how we use some of our challenge course elements. We invite and encourage participants to set goals and we celebrate all levels of success. A huge part of our programming is that it is challenge by choice. We offer an opportunity for participants to ask or tell staff and peers what they need while attempting to reach their goals. They may need silence, active verbal encouragement, or to climb alongside a friend or mentor, etc. Each individual also has a personal goal, which may range from putting on a harness and helmet, to getting above the spotter line (10ish feet off the ground), to making it all the way to the top. Then LAC staff do their best to help individuals meet or exceed their goal utilizing many of the self-regulation tools they've practiced during both of these activities. These tools include taking a break while climbing, breathing exercises, or visualizing their success during the process. Success looks different for everyone and we recognize, verbalize, and honor that from the beginning. Just as important as climbing the wall is how a participant leaves the wall. When taking the zipline down, the zipline itself can serve as a metaphor for "letting go" or "moving towards" something, a goal that they can move forward to, or something that may be holding them back that they would like to "let go" of as they move forward. For a moment, close your eyes and imagine you are on our zipline. You made it to the top of the wall (if that was your goal!), and now you are letting go of something that is holding you back and moving toward the next version of yourself. The wind is whipping through your hair, and then all at once you are landing, giddy with relief that you made it safely (we won’t let on that the sense of danger is mostly an illusion) and full of pride from the boundaries you set and the challenge you attempted. If you’re comfortable, will you share with us how this exercise makes you feel?
    Special thanks to Mitch Potter for donating this b Special thanks to Mitch Potter for donating this beautiful new UTV! Our staff can't wait to take it for a test drive around LAC! We are so grateful for our supporters and friends - it's because of your investment in us that we can fulfill our mission of helping to transform the lives of people affected by trauma from across Central Kentucky! We couldn't do it without the support of people like Mr. Potter and donors like you!
    Special thanks to Brian Chavis and @communitytrust Special thanks to Brian Chavis and @communitytrustandinvestmentcompany for their continued support of the work we do here at Life Adventure Center! This morning Brian dropped off a check for more than $15,000 that will go directly to scholarships for the incredible nonprofit and school groups we work with! This support extends our ability to transform the lives of people affected by trauma. Thanks CTBI!
    Check out these incredible drone images of Life Ad Check out these incredible drone images of Life Adventure Center during one of our snowy days this month! Special thanks to LAC Board Member Mark Shake and Barry Blondell for showing us LAC in a totally new way!
    We also said a fond "see you later" to our longest We also said a fond "see you later" to our longest-running employee this week when Jerry Lancaster officially retired. Jerry's relationship with LAC began decades ago at The Cleveland Home and he is responsible for much of the lasting infrastructure that LAC enjoys today. We will certainly miss this quiet, humble, funny and immensely talented man. In honor of his service to Life Adventure Center, we have named the lake after him, and a sign bearing his name has been added. Please join us in wishing Jerry a wonderful retirement!
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