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Adventure Blog
Adventure Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the adventure facet of life. Adventure-Blog: Adventure-Education News Adventure education on the rise: July 31, 2008 by Rick Collins
Mike Gessford and Rich Keegan have seen an increase in the number of requests they receive regarding the teambuilding services they provide. Mike is the Adventure-Education Coordinator at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford. Rich is a Physical Education instructor in the Simsbury School District and part of the Renbrook Summer Adventure staff. Through their work over the last few years they have gained valuable insight and knowledge about group dynamics. You might not have heard of them, but local school districts, colleges and major corporations have. These talented teachers are part of a growing community of people who are adventure education facilitators. This growing profession seeks to incorporate aspects of play and teamwork to bring together small and large groups, to establish a sense of teamwork and responsibility that will foster problem-solving skills. Educational institutions, non-profits, and businesses have recently shown an increased interest in these outcomes because they know what I've been saying for a while. Too many young adults don't know how to work with one another, they have little sense of teamwork, and problem solving has become a lost art for too many of them. The fact that corporations feel they lose money because their employees can't work together or lack problem solving skills could be correlated to the fact that kids grow up with no free play time and no way to develop problem solving skills and independence. Kids often lead lives that are too structured by adults. So as a culture, in some ways, we are failing our kids by trying to manage everything for them. School districts see kids who don't function well with each other. They see kids devoid of problem solving skills, and they see kids who lack initiative and innovation. Is this a surprise, and is this what we want for our kids? Kids can't even go to the playground without mommy or daddy supervising their play. Kids can't play sports on their own, the sandlot variety, where kids must learn to play together or the game won't get played. In our fear of seeing our kids fall behind, we have initiated the law of unintended consequences. Our kids do fall behind because they are so structured. Adventure Blog Comment:
In my adventure blog here, let me tell you the kind of adventure education I underwent in my childhood. We used to play. Dangerous games! No, rather ordinary games, but on dangerous terrains and in dangerous settings! Just for the heck of it! The thrill of the joy it filled us with kept us going sharing the same with one another. No one ever knew what games we were off to play together with our friends. We made great adventure teams. Our parents never knew. Had they ever come to know, they would immediately have put a check to our activities. But those days they were not bothered about what their kids were doing like parents today are. And they are a little bit too much of it. They shouldn't be. It robs all the passion out of kids. And if you couldn't go adventurous at a young age, no training would ever be able to turn you so later in life. You will never be able to build a real team because all teamwork requires a spirit of adventure to jump into the action of which the results are unknown. We jumped unbothered about what it could throw us in. No formal adventure education could ever have done it to us. It never really did. Adventure is a personality trait and not a skill! Here is The Super Mind Evolution System that claims to change your personal life, so if you feel the system is good too - like I do - it may be a humble beginning in the direction of changing the way we live! Just watch this video to check for yourself:
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