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Modalities
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Wilderness
/ Outdoor Education:
Using
outdoor experiences, participants build skills and confidence
in wilderness survival, expand and explore their awareness and
connection to the seasons and cycles of Nature, learn to work
together as a team, build relationships with peers, mentors and
the outdoors. Programs
like Earthwork
Programs offer
people experiences in nature that will introduce them to a new
awareness of themselves and the natural world around them. They
achieve this by immersing participants in nature through Adventure
Experiences, Wilderness Living Skills, Nature Awareness, Tracking,
Communication and Community Building Skills, and by bringing forth
Native teachings from Elders around the world. "It is our
hope that these experiences act as a reminder of how beautiful
and sacred nature is and how good it feels to be connected to
it and to the people around us." From Adventure
In Adventure Out, "We inspire a more meaningful connection
to self, each other, and our relationship to the natural world
through leadership development, outdoor adventure, and environmental
education."
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Empowerment
Arts offers a “process” oriented experience
as well as skill development. Serving children, youth and adults
that may or may not identify themselves as artists, dancers, actors,
musicians, storytellers... Opportunities are offered to participate
in meaningful, empowering expressive experiences in a supportive,
nurturing and affirming environment. The "arts" are used
as an armature or structure to deliver the underlying purpose. The
purpose depends on the participants' needs and the intention of
the facilitator and specific program. The design of the program
addresses and utilizes
themes, metaphors, archetypes and materials to support its intention.
For example, when offering an exploration of motivation, awareness
and accountability of aggression and violence, we might design a
program for boys ages 6 - 9 about the knights of King Arthur (King
Arthur Days). We explore the meaning and purpose of our subject
in our Circle of the Bards, Roundtable Council,
Code of Chivalry, and Sword Choreography. We tell
Arthurian stories then we talk about the characters and archetypes
and ask the question, "Why are the knights of the Roundtable
and Chivalry so well-remembered?"
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Adventure
Leadership: (From
High
Five Adventure) "In Adventure Education the teacher or
facilitator does not provide all of the answers for the group. Primarily
the participants learn from each other. Adventure experiences intentionally
contain a certain amount of spontaneous unpredictability. Adventure
based methods have been very successful in meeting educational and
personal goals of students. In adventure activities great change
can occur through intense problem solving or safe risk taking situations.
A challenge course or ropes course is a configuration of activities
constructed of wood and cables designed for group participation.
The aim of challenge courses is to present challenging situations
to participants in order to create change and help participants
to learn about the dynamics of individual and group behavior. In
challenge course situations students are taken out of their standard
frame of reference and asked to participate in unusual and attractive
activities that focus on areas such as group problem solving, communication,
the value of diversity and insight skills." |
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