Nusa Dua, Bali:

Tirian Programs that can be run at the ROLE Foundation site (a unique environmental education park)...

• Community Construction Challenge: Planting trees, assisting with building and renovations, building bicycles - this program can include any number of projects designed to assist with developing the site and contributing to local communities in need
• Village Celebrations: A uniquely Balinese cultural experience, in which teams are required to prepare for a traditional Balinese celebration with the help of a local village (including preparing dances, music, painting, decorating), and then to share in the celebration performance - revealing the importance of coordinating different talents in teams to work towards one unified goal.
• No One is an Island: A fun series of tropical island survival challenges based on simple initiative exercises with an environmental and/or sustainable culture twist, revealing the need for collaborative teamwork to survive and thrive.
• Team Eco Challenge: A new program that includes a series of team activities that demonstrate the importance of environmental awareness and action

Gold Coast, Hong Kong:

Tirian Programs that can be run at the Crossroads Foundation site:

• No One is an Island: A fun series of tropical island survival challenges based on simple initiative exercises with an environmental and/or sustainable culture twist, revealing the need for collaborative teamwork to survive and thrive.
• Community Construction Challenge: Planting trees, assisting with building and renovations, building bicycles - this program can include any number of projects designed to assist with developing the site and contributing to local communities in need

In conjunction with the Crossroads Foundation

Programs that Tirian can coordinate and facilitate in conjunction with the Crossroads Foundation at their unique site (with customised experiential learning centres)...

• Art-iculating World Need:

Participants paint a group mural on world need. This project is run in conjunction with the Art Miles Mural Project and UNESCO’s Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for Children of the World. Preparation is undertaken in the classroom prior to the event.

Ideal Group Size: 15-30
Time: 2-3 hours

• Blind X-Perience:

Participants are led through an African village, in total darkness, by guides who are themselves blind. Without sight, participants will learn to navigate using sound, touch and scent and are invited to experience the creativity and extraordinary capabilities of the visually impaired.

Ideal Group Size: 8+
Time: 1 hour

• Development Challenge:

“Village residents” must plan their pathway out of poverty. They must choose priorities. A village well if their water is unsafe? A school for their children’s future? A medical clinic for their survival? A small business for sustainable employment? Roads, transport to get their goods to market? Which is more important if there are resources for only two or three? The complexity of global need becomes quickly tangible and personal.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 1.5 hours

• Earthquake Simulation:

A simulation that helps participants consider the vast impact a natural disaster can have. Afterwards, participants are encouraged to explore effective disaster response.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 1 hour

• Environmental Development Challenge:

Reviews the impact of localised pollution and global warming on an impoverished community.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 1.5 hours

• Level Playing Field:

Participants play soccer, with uneven teams and rules simulating the international trade challenges faced by poorer nations. Players are weighted according to their countries’ economic and educational levels, tariffs and other trade constraints, micro/macro economic factors and further issues. Ensuing discussion analyses these issues at the global level.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 2 hours

• Monsoon:

A rural community must battle weather extremes, crop failure, outbreaks of medical problems, impossible loan conditions, cultural pressure, rejection based on class or tribe, NGO promises, media presence and more. The inter-weaving of these challenges makes survival a constant struggle.

Ideal Group Size: 30 +
Time: 2 hours

• Fair Trade Coffee Game:

Participants engage in the supply chain issues that perpetuate the gap between rich and poor. Stimulating discussion invites all to look for alternatives.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 45 minutes

• Refugee Run:

Participants face simulated attacks, mine fields where they may be ‘injured’, life in a refugee camp, hunger, illness, lack of education, corruption and uncertain shelter or safety. Participants may also be marched under guard, subjected to ambush and, ultimately, offered a chance of re-settlement where they must re-build their lives.

Ideal Group Size: 20 - 80
Time: 2 hours

The Identity of Culture:

A simulation exploring multiculturalism and diversity, cultural identities and interpersonal relating.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 1.5 hours

• The Struggle for Survival (paper bag simulation):

Participants try to earn enough to survive by making paper bags out of newspaper and home made glue. They must earn enough to pay for rent, food, sanitation, medical needs and, if they are fortunate, education. Those that cannot make it end up in the hands of a loan shark. This game throws participants into the hopelessness and intricacy of the poverty web.

Ideal Group Size: 20+
Time: 2 hours

• Experiential Dining:

As part of their visit, some groups like to incorporate a meal into the day, consisting of food typically eaten in slum conditions.

Breakfast with a Difference - Breakfast, as found in some developing nations, is served to participants; the simplicity a reminder of the unequal distribution of global resources.

Slum Lunch - In this meal, foods from developing nations around the world are served to participants, drinks are served in plastic bags, and participants eat with their hands off plates that can be made from leaves.

Lunch in a ‘Bag’ - An experiential meal that allows participants to experience the humbling depths to which many must bow in order to find food for survival.

Refugee Dinner - A special lentil/rice gruel actually served in some refugee camps; a humbling reminder of the luxury of option, and the imperative for survival.