Adventure education in youth work

Modern youth and the area of youth work in general face many challenges (rising mental health issues, uncertainty about the future, peer pressure, ...). Creating spaces of meaningful connection has never been more important than now. With this training, we would like to invite you to explore the potential of adventure education in youth work.

The main aim of this explorative training will be to experience different forms of adventure and to search for lessons and meaning in them for you and your youth work practice. The training is in its third edition, after its pilot in the summer of 2022. It was also presented as a good practice in the international newsletter SangSaeng (from page 25).

Objectives: 

1. Learn about adventure education through experiencing adventure education - the training itself will be a series of little and not-so-little adventures, also in and with nature.
2. Deconstruct and harvest the elements of what adventure education consists of and gain an understanding of how to use them in one's youth work practice.
3. Explore the potential of this transformational process for young people, its tangible and intangible outcomes, and the impact of adventure education.
4. Invite participants to co-create the content by sharing their experiences, methods, approaches,
questions, and ideas that they use, or would like to use, in their YW practice.
5. Present and explore possibilities of bringing regular youth work activities into nature.
6. Explore what the role of a facilitator of adventure education is and how to embody it.

Target groups:

1. Youth workers, and youth leaders who would like to explore the potential of adventure elements in non-formal education and youth work.
2. Trainers and facilitators who would like to explore how to co-create an environment where participants and those leading the activities are willing to take risks and deal with uncertainty.
3. A conversational level of English is a requirement.
4. 18+.
5. If you are facing any kind of situations that are limiting your participation (special needs, disabilities, health issues, ...) please do contact us  and we can go through the options for your participation together.