Description: Outward Bound is the nation’s leading, nonprofit adventure-education organization. Outward Bound programs emphasize personal growth through experience and challenge in the wilderness. Students develop self-reliance, responsibility, teamwork, confidence, compassion, as well as environmental and community stewardship.
An Outward Bound Wilderness course is different from a summer camp and not your typical adult vacation. Outward Bound's wilderness courses will challenge you, but not beyond your means. We begin most courses assuming you have no previous wilderness experience. But from there, we move through a series of progressively difficult challenges at an appropriate pace for everyone in the group. Gradually, instructors step back to allow your awakening insights and knowledge to blossom like rhododendrons in May. You try, you learn, you grow. Lead a mountain-peak ascent, captain a boat through zigzagging rapids, and navigate over rough terrain. As you stand chin to chin with every challenge you face, you begin to see them not as fearsome tasks, but as ripe opportunities to embrace the success and wisdom of your decisions, and understand the education in your mistakes. Completing an Outward Bound course rests on your ability to work effectively as a team member and as an individual. You will learn to communicate, to lead, and to be self-reliant within specialized group activities. And you will solo. Solo, as its name implies, is time alone. It’s a chance to feel your intimate place in nature, to reflect on the teachings before you, and to face, understand and embrace the newfound respect for what may have been your life’s biggest obstacle all along - you.
After your Outward Bound course, you will return home a little tired and dirty, but having gained the knowledge that you are capable of more than you ever thought possible, an experience you will not soon forget, and a new perspective on your life. Outward Bound expeditions expose you to adventure, challenge, the thrill of the unknown – a chance to get out on your own and taste what it feels like to be alive. Most people somehow know that while it may be hard, it will be something they will never regret or forget. We know, whether it is your first expedition or your fifth, you will reap the benefits of the challenges mastered at Outward Bound for the rest of your life. |
