Adventure Education

We support the youth work sector across Europe and beyond to develop competencies in the Adventure Education. We organise adventure centered learning experiences for youth workers and trainers. We support youth organisations to bring creativity and innovation based on emotions and exploration in the learning process.

Community

We meet in the group of like-minded people to share experiences and inspire each other. In our playlist you can find recordings from the online lectures with practitioners of Adventure Education. Each lecture is a story of youth work practice with bits of theory and generalised conclusions:

• "Background theories in Adventure / Outdoor / Experiential Education" with Aga Leśny (2022)
• "Sailing and sail training as a learning environment in youth work" with Sintija Lase (2022)
• "Learning with a forest and wilderness" with Magda Szeniawska (2022)
• "Learning as a Journey" with Tomek Lubotzki (2023)
• "Low rope course as an adventurous way of learning about oneself" with Bogdan Imre (2023)

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Publications

A growing number of materials related to Adventure Education in youth work:

• "Love every challenge. Outdoor adventure education in youth work" (Outward Bound Croatia, 2016)
• "Outdoor Education: from theory to practice" (Outdoor Academy, 2018)
• "SAIL DEEPER: deepen your sail training" (Sail Training Association Latvia, 2021)

Methodological seminars

We train each other on Adventure Education methods and discuss approaches and values of adventurous learning in youth work.

• Outdoor seminar in Carpathians, 2021
• Circus pedagogy in refugee crisis, 2022
• Outdoor seminar in mountains of Adjara, western Georgia, 2023 (and video snapshots)
• Baltic Adventure, 2025 (and a photo-story part 1 and part 2)

Partnership building for volunteering organisations

Discover the learning from seminars organised in the period of 2012-2017. We have prepared this digital story with lots of multimedia documentation we had gathered on the way. Our adventure education seminars are based on theories and concepts of:

• Hero's journey and the monomyth (Joseph Campbell)
• Role of emotions in learning (read or watch Mary Helen Immordino-Yang or more classical Robert Zajonc in his article)
• Social learning theory (Albert Bandura)
• Humanistic psychology (Carl Rodgers)
• Episodic memory concept (read Endel Tulving)