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Keltus - "Pursuit of Potential"

Keltus designs and delivers high-impact experiential programs that translate pressure into performance.

We turn cliffs, caves, rivers, and oceans into training grounds to reveal how individuals and teams think, decide, communicate, and lead under pressure

10/28/2026

A big effort from the 17th Sustainment Brigade - Australian Army team in the Blue Mountains.⁣
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Across multiple 60-metre abseils, lower-offs and climbs, participants worked through a demanding day focused on resilience and composure under pressure. The climbs in particular required persistence, with plenty of “I can’t” becoming “I can” as people worked through challenges they initially thought were beyond them.⁣
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For some, it was the hardest thing they’d ever done. Seeing them regain composure and find a way forward was a highlight for our team.⁣
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Credit to HQ 17 Brigade and Australian Army for investing in their people, and thanks to everyone who took part for the determination, resilience and positive attitude you brought to the day.⁣
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10/27/2026

A great effort from the 9th Regiment, Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, Australian Army in the Blue Mountains.⁣⁣
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Across a day of abseiling, climbing and traverses, the group worked through unfamiliar challenges, supported each other through some demanding moments and demonstrated strong teamwork and leadership.⁣⁣
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Credit to 9 Regt for investing in their junior soldiers and emerging leaders, giving them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility and lead others outside their familiar environment.⁣⁣
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Thanks to everyone who took part for the effort, determination and support you showed each other throughout the day.⁣⁣
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10/21/2026

Composure under pressure takes practice.

It was a privilege to work with 17th Sustainment Brigade - Australian Army in the Blue Mountains, putting stress-management techniques into practice and exploring how teammates can support each other through fear and uncertainty.

Abseiling and climbing provided the challenge. The purpose was to build awareness of individual stress responses, strengthen trust and practise staying composed together.

Thanks to everyone who embraced the training and supported their teammates throughout.

09/02/2026

Most teams look pretty good when the plan is working.

The useful stuff appears when it isn’t.

Pressure has a habit of exposing the things meetings can smooth over. Who communicates. Who listens. Who takes over. Who disappears into the background. Who can still make a decision when the easy option is gone.

That’s why we use challenge deliberately.

Not for the abseil. Not for the kayak. Not for the story afterwards.

For what it shows you about the team.

You can’t improve what you can’t see.

08/27/2026

On natural surfaces, knowing how to get yourself out of trouble is only part of the equation.⁣
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The next step is knowing how to help someone else.⁣
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As part of the 7th Brigade - Australian Army Single Pitch Natural Surfaces Abseiling and Climbing Course, trainees developed and practised the rescue systems required to respond when another person needs assistance on the cliff.⁣
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That means building the technical skills, judgement and confidence to assess the situation, establish a safe rescue system and recover a climber or abseiler when things don’t go to plan.⁣
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These rescue skills are a critical part of maintaining a professional, safe and operationally ready natural surfaces Resilience Training capability within the Brigade.⁣
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Australian Army Forces Command - Australian Army

08/26/2026

A little self-rescue practice from the course 👌⁣
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Ascending ropes, bypassing knots and working through the skills you hope you never need, but definitely want to have when things get awkward.⁣
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Plenty of problem solving, a bit of hanging around, and some very committed rope wrangling. 🧗

08/24/2026

This is what building capability looks like.⁣⁣
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After two weeks of training on natural surfaces, these trainees were given the responsibility of putting it all together.⁣⁣
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They reconnoitred the site, designed and planned the activity, then delivered resilience training to 24 soldiers from the 7th Brigade - Australian Army
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Their objectives were:⁣⁣
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1️⃣ Build confidence⁣⁣
2️⃣ Develop teamwork⁣⁣
3️⃣ Help participants recognise and manage responses to fear and stress⁣⁣
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Abseiling, climbing and lowering provided the challenge, but they were only the medium.⁣⁣
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The real outcome was the trainees’ ability to use those activities deliberately, facilitate participants through genuine challenge, and debrief the experience so the learning transferred beyond the cliff.⁣⁣
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Two weeks of technical training, rescue systems and risk management culminated in this.⁣⁣
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Not just people who can abseil and climb.⁣⁣
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People who can use those skills to deliver meaningful resilience training for soldiers.⁣⁣
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That is the capability.⁣⁣
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Australian Army Forces Command - Australian Army

08/24/2026

Over the past two weeks, Keltus has been working with the 7th Brigade - Australian Army to deliver the next stage in the development of its roping resilience training capability.⁣⁣
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The course progressed 11 experienced Safety Supervisors and Facilitators from delivering activities on the Brigade’s Climbing, Roping and Rappelling Tower onto natural surfaces, as part of their Certificate IV in Outdoor Leadership pathway.⁣⁣
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For Keltus, it marks another milestone in a journey that began almost two years ago.⁣⁣
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Since 2024, we have partnered with the 7the Brigade to progressively build an internal capability to deliver roping-based resilience training, beginning on artificial surfaces and developing the people, systems and experience required to deliver activities safely and effectively across the Brigade.⁣⁣
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Moving onto natural surfaces is an important next step. It gives the Brigade access to more challenging environments where resilience training can place greater demands on leadership, teamwork, decision-making and individual responses to discomfort and uncertainty.⁣⁣
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7th Brigade has been deliberate in pursuing this capability for its soldiers. Through the mediums of roping and sea kayaking, it now has the strongest resilience training capability in Army, and is delivering these activities to soldiers in significant numbers.⁣⁣
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This course takes that capability another step forward, expanding both where the Brigade can deliver resilience training and what those activities can achieve.⁣⁣
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A great couple of weeks with a dedicated group of facilitators who are continuing to drive this capability forward for the 7th Brigade.⁣⁣
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Australian Army

07/08/2026

For a recent Keltus program with the 1st Intelligence Battalion, Australian Army , the objective was not simply to get people down a cliff.⁣⁣
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That part matters, of course. It creates pressure, discomfort and a shared challenge.⁣⁣
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But we had clear objectives going in:⁣⁣
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1. Help participants identify their individual responses to pressure and stress, and understand how those responses influence individual and team performance.⁣⁣

2. Develop practical strategies to manage those responses, so they can remain effective and contribute positively to the team.⁣⁣

3. Create shared reference points that could support follow-on character, resilience and performance under pressure training.⁣⁣
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So the question after the activity was not just, “Did everyone complete the abseil?”⁣⁣
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The real question was, “How do we know the outcomes were achieved?”⁣⁣
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For us, the answer came in the debrief.⁣⁣
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After the activity, one of our clearest observations was this:⁣⁣
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“We didn’t have to work very hard during the debrief.”⁣⁣
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Not because the activity was easy. It wasn’t.⁣⁣
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But because the participants were already there.⁣⁣
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✅ They were keen to talk.

✅ They could identify what changed in their thinking and behaviour when pressure, fear and stress showed up.

✅ They could explain what helped them stay effective.

✅ They could see how individual responses affected the team. And they could talk about where else those lessons applied.⁣⁣
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That is when you know the activity design, frontload and experience has done its job.⁣⁣
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The success was not that we had less to do.⁣⁣
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It was that the participants had more to say.⁣⁣
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The cliff created pressure.⁣⁣
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The team task made individual responses visible.⁣⁣
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The shared experience gave everyone something real to refer back to.⁣⁣
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But the debrief is where you find out whether the learning has actually landed.⁣⁣
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That is the difference between an activity people remember, and an experience they can use.⁣⁣
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1st (Australian) Division Commander

07/03/2026

It is one thing to talk about composure. It is another thing to test it on the edge.⁣⁣
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Keltus recently supported the 1st Intelligence Battalion, Australian Army delivering a performance under pressure activity utilising abseiling and climbing as the medium.⁣⁣
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Credit to 1st Intelligence Battalion for developing a broader program with clear intent. This was not a standalone activity. It formed part of a deliberate training package that included physical training delivered by PTIs, sessions with unit padres and psychology staff, and practical exposure to controlled stress in an unfamiliar outdoor environment.⁣⁣
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Our role was to help participants practise the knowledge and strategies being developed across the broader program.⁣⁣
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On the cliff, soldiers had the opportunity to observe how they responded to pressure, uncertainty, discomfort and fear. They then practised maintaining composure, communicating clearly, making decisions and continuing to perform as individuals and as a team.⁣⁣
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The reel shows the arc of the day: nerves at the edge, trust in the system, controlled movement, climbing, abseiling, hauling each other, and working through the task together.⁣⁣
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This is where well-designed experiential training earns its place. It creates a shared experience that can be reflected on, debriefed and connected back to the demands of the role.⁣⁣
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Performance under pressure training is strongest when it has a clear purpose.⁣⁣
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This had one.⁣⁣
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