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.

—"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 looses a true friend

Central Indiana looses a trusted friend, Nelson Steele

Contact TrueNorth & Associates:
Email: truenorth360@comcast.net
Phone: (317) 876-1871
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