Human Diversity Symposium

Pinnacle’s involvement with the UBC youth leadership group led to an amazing event this past weekend.  Youth leaders gathered for an inspiring grass roots symposium on the theme of Human Diversity.   The youth created a welcoming space of dialogue and discussed how combining positive attitudes, with awareness and authenticity opens the doors to leading an awesome life.

Highlights of the Human Diversity Symposium included a multi-cultural potluck, and a meaningful African singing and dancing workshop led by the marvelous Jacky Essombe.  The youth stepped outside of their comfort zones and were motivated to continue their personal journeys on the road to being agents of change in their community.

Would you like to try a few moves of your own? Check our the video of Jacky and the students here!

A big Pinnacle THANK YOU to Jacky Esombe and to UBC Campus and Community Planning for their support.

 

One of our facilitators is off to Korea

One of our facilitators is off to Korea to teach English. Enjoy your next adventure Aubrey! #FF @HAHsunshine http://ow.ly/43wa6

Pinnacle People – Our Magic Moments

During our quest to provide experiences that engage people in their strengths and to encourage them to embrace their passions, something very interesting happens…. it changes US!

 

Youth trying their hand at Warp Speed!

We have recently asked a few of our instructors to share a few of the remarkable moments that they have been apart of over the last few months, and we want to share them with you!

 

My most memorable Pinnacle moment… can I choose a couple?

I remember the first time I watched Eric run a Diversity Circle.  I was amazed at how well he managed to direct the energy of the students and how honest they were being with themselves and each other.  It was an incredible thing to see and participate in for the first time and it was a great way to help the kids find similarities that they hadn’t thought of before.

I will always remember Raft Building!  It is so great to see the students problem solve and work together without being given a plan or a set of instructions.  Their teachers often remarked on how wonderful it was to see unexpected leaders popping up to take charge when they usually sat in the background disengaged.

 

Marie is part of our instructor / facilitator team at Loon Lake.  Marie’s passion to teach clearly comes out, especially at the archery range!

 

Metaphor to Movies – Powell River Digital Film School

Over this past week we have enjoyed working with the very inspiring students from the Powell River Digital Film School while they where at Loon Lake. Each year Tony and his crew get off to a great start, by heading out on a retreat to get to know each other on a deeper level.

PRDFS students trying their hand at helium poles

While we facilitated many activities and workshops for the students during the retreat, covering topics like communication, collaboration, and emotional intelligence the theme of metaphors kept coming up.  Of course this got us thinking… Exactly why are metaphors so powerful?

By definition a metaphor is “a concept of understanding one thing in terms of another”, and comes from the Greek verb to transfer.  In looses terms metaphors are simply comparing one thing to another.

This is exactly what we do! We  create various experiences - often adventurous by nature, and help people the build a metaphor fresh from that experience, comparing the experience to the everyday.

The Leap of Faith, on our high ropes course at Loon Lake

Our High Ropes programs are a great example of this. As we take groups out of the “everyday”  into the woods to play up in the trees, we consistently here;

“I really had to trust in…”

“you have to believe that they will support you”

“I’ve never challenged myself like this”

“seeing my partner try so hard, I knew I could do it too”

What an awesome opportunity to transfer these thoughts and beliefs into your next video project,  school group, workplace and into LIFE! All by looking for metaphors.

Thank you PRDFS students for the great week at Loon Lake and taking meaning from our experiences. All the best as you all turning meaning into film!

“Ladder side TAKE. Net side GIVE!

Working out the Puzzle!

 

 

Teams Competing in our Survivor Pursuits Challenges

 

 

Here at Pinnacle Headquarters  we are all very excited to continue using social media to keep connected and listen to our  clients!

Stick with us as we work out a few kinks and put this puzzle together.

In the meantime you can check out our other online conversations:

Twitter – twitter.com/pinnaclepursuit

YouTube – youtube.com/pinnaclepursuit

Facebook Fan Page - facebook.com/pinnaclepursuit

 

 

The Pinnacle Team