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
  • 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
  • The instructors were amazing.

    Guadalupe Navarro

    Community Engagement Manager, Sonoma County Regional Parks, California, USA

  • We were very pleased with the top notch instruction from Viristar instructors.

    Kenny Peavy

    Head of Risk & Safety, Green School Bali & Green Camp Bali, Bali, Indonesia

  • Our instructor was fantastic and extremely knowledgeable. This course was a great start for me to build the risk management approach for my organization.

    Noam Pratzer

    Founder, Get Out Adventures, Toronto, Canada

  • Karen P.S. Tan, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA

  • Very experienced presenter with lots of case studies and real experience. A very fruitful, helpful, and meaningful course.

    Eva Yip

    Head of Student Development, ELCHK Lutheran Academy, Hong Kong, China

  • Remarkably knowledgeable… I left feeling empowered to lead trips with confidence.

    Natalie Smith

    College Counselor, American International School of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • So helpful in the development of our outdoor youth programs…I learned so much that can be directly applied to our organization’s risk management practices. 

    Eva King

    Education Manager, Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council, Oregon, USA

  • Dr. Todd Davis

    Associate Professor of Health Physical Education & Recreation and Director of Outdoor Recreation, Delta State University, Cleveland Mississippi USA

  • Empowering insights… I left the training with a deeper sense for safety and procedures.

    Tess

    Teacher and Trip Leader, American International School of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • This course fundamentally changed how I think about risk management…highly recommended for anyone responsible for safety in experiential programming.

    Shayne Fitz-Coy

    CEO, Rustic Pathways, California, USA

  • Viristar provided an excellent instructor, along with a thorough and well-structured course and materials.

    Sandi Taruni

    Founder & CEO, Jelajah Outdoor, Bogor, Indonesia