North Carolina Outward Bound School is a not for profit educational organization that uses the wilderness and sense of adventure as its classroom to teach students the principles of physical fitness, craftsmanship, self-reliance and compassion. For 55 years it has delivered powerful life lessons by encouraging participants to safely and confidently, step outside their comfort zones and travel in spectacular wilderness areas.
That's nothing. They made me climb up a rope ladder that wasn't stationery and when I got to the top, the only thing I had to stand on was a large stump. I had to hug the tree, get my feet off the ladder and turn myself around on the stump, facing outwards. I was the first one, so had to figure it out myself. THEN I had to jump off the stump and try to grab a ring that was several feet out in front of me. It was WILD!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm living a little bit of what is outward bound experience, and thanks for this video. This makes me remind that Outdoor education can really chance our lives. I'm still learning to be great
SpikeBoarding is good for vets and I'd be happy to help any vet begin to study and learn how to ski in this very American and casual way of skiing. qlplus.org/blog/spikeboarding-for-all
Wow so inspiring! I feel like I learned only 5% in school about Kurt Hahn thank you. The concepts are just so beautiful and actually logical. They remind me so much of the concepts from the Baha’i faith. Can anyone tell me the title of Kurt Hahns book and the other one mentioned🙏🏼
Absolutely LOVE this promo video! Well done. Outdoor adventure therapy activities and especially those experiences in a natural wilderness environment can be refreshing, relaxing, soothing, exhilarating and even awe-inspiring for our participants. However, for some participants, they can also be extremely challenging, frightening, scary, exhausting (emotionally) and for some 'at-risk' participants - it can be extremely frustrating. Whatever their reactions to such experiences, the memories stay in their minds for many years to come. For many of us, a greater feeling of well-being and are more aware of ourselves as a result of such experiences in the natural outdoor environment. Now imagine merging such challenges and experiences in nature within a supportive therapeutic environment, led by a trained and experienced therapist and you have what we call ‘therapeutic adventure’. There are many therapeutic models suitable for working outdoors using therapy. Therapists might ask the question, “What is the added benefit of doing therapy in nature over working with clients in the comfort of the therapy room?” Two Internationally renowned ‘legends’ in the field of wilderness interventions and adventure therapy - Michael Gass and Lee Gillis, answer that question here. They believe that, when done correctly, information from therapeutic adventure can provide a rich assessment of client behaviour. They write: “Some of the advantages of adventure experiences include: (a) the combination of ambiguity and stress that coexist in adventure experiences; (b) the increased level of validity in client responses to assessment procedures (eg. clients must ‘walk their talk’); and (c) the ability of therapists to receive appropriate information as well as simultaneously analyse psychological processes and behavioural content.” (Gass & Gillis, 1995, page 36). My own personal and professional experience is that therapeutic adventure (particularly in a wilderness environment) can result in dramatic and long-lasting emotional changes that may happen much quicker than within the therapy room alone. But, of course, the therapist needs to think in a very different way when starting to use therapeutic adventure. There are numerous issues of confidentiality and safety to consider, and it is important to assess clients’ needs and make adjustments in the program in order to meet those needs. Another important factor of conducting adventure therapy programs I want to see covered WELL in W-AT training programs is "Safety" - both physical safety and also psychological safety - both of which are vital factors to ‘prepare’ for in advance. Just sayin' :-)
Man, to see that some of the dialogue was plainly scripted is honestly quite a bit dissapointing. You need to take more care in choosing the stewards of Outward Bound to purvey it's message because it feels watered down and contrived.
You're only able to go on these trips once in your life time. Only full active or reserve can keep going multiple tips as long as the service members have been redeployed after their trip.
