Adventure Based Wellbeing...Adventure Based Learning (ABL), a form of Experiential Learning (EL),...
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Rod Quintrell
Venture Corporate Recharge
20 years in Therapeutic & Non Therapeutic programming in UK & Australia. Outdoor Education & Recreation, Tourism, Adventure Therapy, Counselling, Mental Health support & facilitation .
Education: BSc Reflective Therapeutic PracticeAdvanced Diploma Humanistic CounsellingAdv. Diploma Outdoor RecreationCert iv Youth Work
Board Member - Bushwalking Leadership SA, Walking SA
Adventure Based Learning (ABL), a form of Experiential Learning (EL), which promotes well being outcomes.
ABL uses perceived risk with aspects of challenge & metaphor to
encourage learners to discover learnings about themselves that
tests limiting beliefs or existing perceptions of self.
"Our Conclusions are inseparably
linked to our Behaviour, and our
Behaviour is inseparably linked to
our results." Jim Campbell
Changes in self concept
Changes in beliefs around capacity
Improved relationships
Gains in self knowledge
Ability to change paradigms – traveller effect
Improved resilience
“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self ... and to venture in the highest sense is
precisely to become conscious of one’s self”
Soren Kirkegaard
Kurt Levin talked about the importance of changing our Action theories, our personal scripts.
Ingredients – challenge, risk, novelty, subjective adventure.
Here is how we deliver ABL…..
Risk Tolerance – (Perceived) Physical Risk
Emotional Risk
Status Risk
Comfort zones
Stress / Eustress / Distress
Increase Emotional Safety
Or frontloading - ‘setting the scene’ by the facilitator.
APPLICATION = VALUE x EXPECTATION
If expectation is 0, then application is 0 (even if perceived value is high).
By the learner exercising some choice over their participation, they are both a) agreeing to participate and b) formulating their own intra-personal expectations.
Collaboration & improved perceived emotional safety increase the likelihood of people taking up the challenge & engaging to levels closer to their own perceived limits.
People need to choose their level of participation.
Roots in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Project Adventure programming,
Directly linked to motivation and levels of learner participation.
Reflections – A sunset alone is barely a sunset. For a learning to be integrated, it needs to be identified. Once integrated, the circle continues.
Rolfe et al. (2001) reflective model is based upon 3simple questions: What? So what? Now what?
Being in or near flow / at peak performance in an environment of high perceived risk and a level of emotional safety can provide insights on intrapersonal and interpersonal levels within a learner.
Insights into self can be carried back into the learner’s life and integrated into their own self concept or sense of self.