Christian Stecher
Christian’s passion is bringing experiential education to life. His natural ability to problem solve combined with his engineering background has enabled him to design and implement activities for all aged students. He co-authored the book Real Genius at Play: Life Skills and Multiple Intelligences and designed many of the activities listed in the book.
Christian has spent 13 years facilitating Adventures in Education programs for teachers and students including high and low ropes challenge courses. He is the owner of Stecher Adventures, LLC., a company that facilitates outdoor educational programs focusing on the development of social and emotional skills He is also the designer of educational games utilized at the LifeSkills Conference, where he also mentors a group of Counselors in Training.
Christian designs and helps design high and low ropes courses for schools and communities throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania. He also is an adjunct faculty member for Neumann University where he co-teaches Adventure Education, Building the Neocortex, and Experiential Education and Facilitation Skills.
Christian believes that all students are able to learn in their own way only if every educator is willing to take the time to figure out how.
Rachel Brister
Rachel has always had an eagerness for adventure and the great outdoors. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education, Rachel earned a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Chestnut Hill College.
Dating back to her adolescent years, Rachel has shown a strong desire to work with children. She would provide child care services and spend her summers working with young children as a camp counselor. Since graduating from college in 2006, Rachel has been in the school setting working as a classroom teacher.
In 2016, Rachel engaged in an Adventure Education Masters Course, which led her in the direction of the wonderful world of outdoor/social and emotional education. It was then that Rachel was finally able to combine her love for being active outdoors in nature with her joy for education and working with students. For the past 9 years, Rachel has worked as a facilitator on the ropes course for Stecher Adventures. She also works directly with Christian and serves as his executive assistant for the business, Stecher Adventures, LLC.