Associates & Partners & Collaboration
TrueNorth contracts many part-time associates and partners for various TrueNorth events. We also look to collaborate to work with other organizations, by combining resources to achieve common goals. See the Associates tab for examples.

—"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and then I understand"
-Confuscious.

— "Give a man a fish; you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
-Anyonomous

—"There's no end to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
-Anyonomous

Mission Statement
At TrueNorth, we create safe, challenging adventure experiences that result in the self-discovery of life values and lifetime skills.

Purposes of TrueNorth Team Navigation!™ Adventures:
— Inspire and encourage all to reach their potential
— Engage youth & adults in outdoor adventure settings free from normal noises, distractions, and stresses
— Engage youth & adults in safe experiences involving challenge, risk-taking, uncertainty, unpredictable outcomes, and choice of behaviors
— Engage youth & adults in supervised experiences that emphasize personal safety, and have boundaries, norms, expectations, and consequences
— Facilitate learning through personal reflection, small group interaction, and applying learned insights to family/school/community/work
— Model responsible environmental stewardship during outdoor activities
— Use Team Navigation! activities as methodology for self-discovery learning

Values
— Challenge, Choice, Decision-Making, and Problem-Solving Experiences Develop Character
— Character Determines Destiny
— Self-Discovery of Relationship Values Leads to Inner Peace
— Success, Failure, Mistakes, Risk-Taking, Uncertainty, and Unpredictable Outcomes Lead to Life Learning
— Safely Pushing Comfort Zones is Good
— Give Credit Where Credit is Due
— Recognize the Gifts of Others
— Appreciate the Contributions of Others
— Accept Responsibility for Ones Decisions and Actions
— Schedule Priorities
— Celebrate the Tiny Accomplishments & Victories
— Identify Boundaries, Norms, Expectations, Hopes, Concerns
— Facilitate Learning With Personal Reflection, Small Group Interaction, Application to Society/Community
— Model Positive Respect for the Environment
— The Quality of Our Relationships, Impacts the Quality of Our Life
— Faith, Family, Fitness, Fun, and Friends

Facilitation Philosophy
We believe there is real value in skilled, experienced and flexible facilitators, who can truly create a fun atmosphere centered in learning by self-discovery. Our facilitation philosophy is centered around the following beliefs:

Principle-Centered Roots
The name of TrueNorth is rooted in the life philosophy of Jeff Coates. Just as a magnetic compass can help to navigate through the unknowns of a wilderness, a moral compass can help navigate through the challenges of life, both personally and professionally. Coates attempts for his moral compass to be centered in a spiritual character and conduct rooted in a daily walk with God. That daily character walk incurs regular challenges from others, just as the magnetic needle can bounce-around before it finally rests in the direction of the true magnetic north.

These are examples of life-principles that help guide those choices:

Code of Conduct

Jeff Coates Bio

Thoughtful Words

TrueNorth loses a true friend

Central Indiana loses a trusted friend, Nelson Steele, 1938-2003 (click for tribute)