24 October – 2 November 2023 | Hungary, Hungary
This program is a training of trainers in 10 days based on learning by doing, using nature as our classroom, gaining hard skills with outdoor activities, and self-reflection including ETS competencies, Wilderness First Aid.
The training program spans over ten days, focusing on the in-depth understanding of outdoor experiential education, including group-building activities, outdoor expeditions, and high and low-rope elements.
The program was designed to achieve the following:
- Provide Strong Self-Experience: Engage participants in outdoor experiential activities to strengthen their understanding of the methods and self-awareness.
- Introduce Experiential Education Concepts: Reflect on experiences and discuss the basic concepts and models of experiential education.
- Introduce the framework of the European Training Strategy (ETS): Share insights about the ETS, supporting the self-reflection and assessment of participants.
- Nature as a Tool: Inspire participants to use nature as a tool while working with groups, fostering a connection between nature and learning.
- Develop Facilitation Skills: Enhance the skills required for the efficient facilitation of educational programs.
- Increase awareness and share the basics of wilderness first aid and outdoor risk management,
- Create an environment to share good practices among participants.
Methods:
The program employs various methods to ensure a practical and engaging experience:
- Experiential Learning: Learning by doing.
- Reflective Sessions: Individual, small, and big group reflections.
- Rope Elements: High and low rope activities.
- Outdoor Expedition: A two-night expedition in the forest.
- Meta Reflection: Analysis of the overall learning process.
Learning Outcomes:
- Improved competencies in facilitating groups’ and individuals’ learning processes.
- Ability to apply experiential educational approaches to program designs.
- Understanding ETS: A basic comprehension of the European Training Strategy framework.
- Enhanced self-reflection based on the ETS competence areas and understanding of how to facilitate group reflection processes.
- A more profound insight into the roles and responsibilities of a facilitator.
- Development of skills and capabilities specifically for working with young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Experience in designing experiential learning programs
Participants profile:
- Trainers, educators, instructors, facilitators, youth workers, or volunteers working with youth, teachers, coaches, psychologists, and youth from disadvantaged background.
- Motivated to learn new methods of experiential education.
- Interested and experienced in outdoor activities.
- Your physical condition allows you to hike longer distances, spending nights under the sky, carrying 50l of backpacks.
- Have experience with facilitating groups.
- Experienced with creating educational programme designs.
- Motivated to learn hard and soft skills of outdoor education.
- Motivated to gain new competencies through group or individual challenges.
- Being able to communicate and express thoughts and feelings in English.
- Above 21 years old.
Available downloads:
- Essence of Outdoor Experiential Education TOT_Programme.pdf
- Infoletter – Essence of Outdoor Experiential Education TOT_2023.pdf
More information at: SALTO