What is Outward Bound?

Outward bound schools are conducting outdoor courses in nature where participants find themselves outside their everyday lives, where they can discover themselves and their inner abilities. They gain awareness of positive interaction with other members of the group and the environment thus enchancing their personal and social skills.

Outward Bound courses are based on experiential learning method. This means stepping outside the usual situations and getting into more challenging environment, both physically and mentally. With reflection to every new experience, the participants gain awareness of themselves and the way they function in certain situations which can later help them to alter thair way of thinking should they choose to. This creates more options in going through life and thus more success.

Objectives of an Outward Bound course can be quite different depending on the target group and can be one or more of the following:
• getting to know one’s own qualities and capabilities
• teamwork training
• developing initiative and leadership skills, effective communication skills, organizational skills
• ability to act in unpredictable situations

Activities used on an Outward Bound course are tools used in creating new and powerful experiences. They include: trekking, wilderness orienteering, rock climbing, abseiling, caving, multi-day expeditions, building shelter and sleeping outdoors, raft building, mountain biking, low and high ropes; team initiative and problem-solving tasks and much more.

Target groups for various Outward Bound courses:
• organised gradeschool and highschool groups
• students
• corporate teams
• groups with special needs
• open enrollement (everyone interested)