Youth Adventure Course YAC
An outdoor educational and adventure learning experience...
Adventure-based experiential education provides opportunities for hands-on learning and experience. An active participation in the programmes activities will enable the individual to realise a greater potential, to discover and re-affirm positive skills and values. Self-application and working in a team to encounter mentally and physically challenging situations in the outdoors creates agents of change. The individual would emerge with a different perception. Shared experiences are equated to the challenging environment of the adult world where responsible decision-making is ever demanded. Course activities which creates social interaction will highlight and enhance both personal and people skills.
- Enhance self-confidence and self-discipline through hands-on self-application and interaction with peers.
- To react positively to encounter challenges in demanding and changing situations.
- Stimulate mental flexibility to expand personal limits and discourage the tendency towards self-imposed barriers.
- Experience and practice people skills essential for team-working and enhance leadership qualities.
- Encounter the process of project management through discussion, implementation and reviews
The programme begins with equipping the participant with basic technical and inter-personal skills. Subsequent activities will demand an escalating consistent hands-on application and an active self-examination of thoughts, emotions and attitudes. Tasks and team leadership roles during activities will highlight the planning, decision-making and action processes while reviews and discussions would give feedback on positive characteristics and values.