Custom Courses
Training Experiences Designed Especially for Your Team
Purpose-Built Courses
Viristar can deliver custom-designed training experiences carefully crafted to meet the needs of your group.
Topics offered fit within our core areas of expertise:
- Risk management for outdoor, experiential, adventure, and travel-based programs
- Curriculum development and other aspects of outdoor education/recreation and experiential program design
- Wilderness, emergency and rescue medicine for remote, austere, disaster and low-resource settings
- Business management for nonprofits and SMEs including strategic planning, Board development and fundraising
All custom courses are tailored to the group’s learning objectives, timeframe and audience.
Flexible Formats to Meet Your Specifications
- From multi-day intensives to one-hour seminars
- In-person, remote (online), or hybrid
- Delivery models: experiential, didactic presentation, or blended
- Multiple languages of presentation (with interpreter/translator support)
Past Viristar Custom Training Experiences
Viristar has delivered a wide variety of custom courses and specialized training classes to diverse audiences of educators, business professionals, human services providers, government officials and others.
Viristar’s trainings have been delivered in English, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Vietnamese. Our custom courses and seminars have been provided to audiences in Asia, Europe, Oceania, the Americas and Europe.
A partial list of past custom trainings includes:
- Strategic Planning for Small Businesses
- Understanding and Improving Safety Culture
- Using Safety Science in Risk Management System Development
- The Role of Standards in Outdoor and Experiential Program Safety and Quality
- Using Academic Research Findings in Environmental Education Program Design to Improve Efficacy
- Risk Management in International Education
- Risk Management Plan (Safety Management System) Development
- Environmental Education Curriculum Design
- Adventure Tourism Risk Management
- Using Theoretical Models of Incident Causation to Improve Safety Outcomes
- Integrating Environmental Education Into Adventure Education Programming
- Patient Care in Environmental Emergencies, for Paramedics in Africa
- Nature Centers and Outdoor Safety
- Travel Medicine in Tropical and Subtropical Environments
- Trip and Travel Safety for International Schools
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Outdoor Experiential Education: A North American Perspective for Asia- & Oceania-based Programs
- Educational Travel Risk Management
- Outdoor Recreation Curriculum Design
- Risk Management in Sport Tourism & Outdoor Tourism, for Tourism & Hospitality Management professionals
- Risk Mitigation in Sport Management & Outdoor Recreation
- Recreation and Parks Risk Management–A Global Perspective
- Environmental Sustainability Regulation in Outdoor Recreation
- Supporting LGBTQIA+ Participants on Outdoor and Travel Experiences (focus on trans* participants)
- Wilderness Medicine: Focus on Rural Alaska
- Adventure Tourism Regulation: Benefits and Strategies for Japan
- Crisis Communications for Outdoor Recreation and Education Programs
