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Outward Bound USA (OBUSA) is a non-profit organization providing experiential education in the United States through a network of regional schools, especially in wilderness settings. Outward Bound counts among its desired outcomes the development of self-awareness, self-confidence, leadership skills, environmental and social responsibility.
The Outward Bound Trust is an educational charity established in 1946 to operate the schools in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] Separate organisations operate the schools in each of the other countries in which Outward Bound operates. [4] Outward Bound helped to shape the U.S. Peace Corps and numerous other outdoor adventure programs. [5]
In the early 1990s NOLS partnered with the Forest Service on the program. 1994 marks the founding of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, a non-profit organization. [13] The principles of Leave No Trace concern minimizing the social and environmental impacts that have led to ecological degradation. The program serves as an education ...
James Martin Hogan is primarily known as co-founder of the worldwide Outward Bound movement of outdoor adventure education schools, along with Kurt Hahn and Lawrence Durning Holt, having been the first warden of the sea school - the first Outward Bound school - established in Aberdyfi, Wales by Holt to train crews of his Blue Funnel Line.
The largest empirical study of the effects of outdoor education programs (mostly Outward Bound programs) found small-moderate short-term positive impacts on a diverse range of generic life skills, with the strongest outcomes for longer, expedition-based programs with motivated young adults, and partial long-term retention of these gains.
A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal development and team building activity which usually consists of high elements, low elements, or some combination of the two. Low elements take place on the ground or above the ground. High elements are usually constructed in trees or made of utility poles and require a belay for safety.
Outward Bound was a direct response to Lawrence Holt, part-owner of the Blue Funnel Shipping Company, who was looking for a training program for young sailors. These sailors seemed to have lost the tenacity and fortitude needed to survive the rigors of war and shipwreck, unlike older sailors, who were more likely to survive because of their ...
Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound Archived 2014-09-15 at the Wayback Machine; Herszenhorn, David M., March 20, 2006. "A New York School That Teaches Teamwork by Camping". The New York Times. The Kauffman Foundation; Kearns, David T, "Toward a New Generation of American Schools". The Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 74, No. 10 (Jun., 1993), pp ...