LEARNING OUTCOMES?

Discover Your Best Self

Develop your Mauri ora. Build selfawareness, identity and acceptance. Strengthen resilience and personal motivation. Improve your mindset and attitude. Learn to live in the moment and develop healthy habits.

Connection to Others

Broaden your social and cultural awareness. Understand how you work in a team and how to create effective relationships. Develop leadership skills and experience success as a member of a team. Learn how to support the wellbeing of others.

Social & Environmental Responsibility

Grow your appreciation of the rest of the natural world through kaitiakitanga / guardianship and exploring education for sustainability. Experience being of service to others and developing environmentally responsible practices.

Values Awareness

Consideration of your own, others and Outward Bound’s values of Wana (Passion), Haepapa (Responsibility), and Aroha (Compassion). Use your values to guide personal vision, goals or direction.

SIX CORE COURSE FACTORS FORM THE BASIS OF ALL OUTWARD BOUND COURSES:

SAFE & SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Outward Bound is absolutely committed to health and safety. We pride ourselves on rigorous and comprehensive safety systems and practices to ensure you are physically and emotionally safe at all times. We focus on the appreciation of strengths, interdependence, equality and responsibility for learning.

FACILITATED LEARNING / WORKING IN A TEAM

Learn by doing! Learn more about yourself and others through challenge, success and failure, selfreflection and feedback. Our course objectives are clear and transparent. Throughout the course you will continuously reflect and review on your experience.

Alongside the 8-13 members of your ‘watch’, you will learn how to develop a group culture, celebrate team success and failure and understand how to use conflict and harmony constructively to strengthen your team.