The concept of using the outdoors as a tool in management training was first developed in the 1940's by Dr. Kurt Hahn. Dr. Hurt Hahn was a philosopher outdoorsman who believed that the outdoors holds many lessons for people, which will enhance their personal thresholds as well as group thresholds. It was Dr. Hahn's belief that advancing civilizations and technology were depriving many persons the opportunities to develop self-reliance, physical fitness and a compassion for others.

AMSS's Focal Point™ is an established corporate training tool. AMSS takes experiential learning to the next level by focusing on specific needs of companies and corporations. Experiential Learning involves specific members of those companies and corporations into the outdoors, focusing on enhancing themselves professionally and personally. More and more corporate houses discover that in order to solve a number of issues that cannot be completely addressed in classroom training situations, AMSS’s Experiential Learning programs can. The most obvious - and immediate - benefits of AMSS’s Focal Point approach is a building up of interpersonal relationships, trust and bonding.

AMSS's Experiential Learning Programs involve taking a group of people away from their normal environment into the outdoors, and placing a new, unfamiliar set of challenges before them. The program works on the principle that when a team is thrown together in wilderness or adventure settings, where they have to fend for themselves and meet challenges together, there is lasting growth.

At the operational level, experiential learning works on the following assumptions: