Skills from your Outward Bound course have a way of popping up in unexpected places in your life after an expedition. Since the beginning of the pandemic this year, many of our lives changed dramatically. In some ways, they’ve...
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Outward Bound’s history is rooted in finding solutions within catastrophe. Kurt Hahn started the program in 1941 as a means of addressing the high casualty rate of young seamen in Great Britain whose ships were torpedoed in the North...
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As an Outward Bound Instructor, I’ve often felt inspired by my students. I recently reached out to former students and asked what aspects of their Outward Bound experiences have continued to positively impact them in their daily lives. It was...
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Dear Future Self, As I write to you, I’m having the best day I’ve had this year. I’m alone in the wilderness. Well, I’m not technically alone. In fact, I’m surrounded by folks who are also alone in the wilderness....
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Someone once demonstrated life after Outward Bound to me this way: join hands in a circle of four or five people, and begin to move clockwise. Now choose one person and instruct them to try to move counter-clockwise as the...
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How did an Outdoor Educator course and two scraps of paper lead to a business with a mission to alleviate loneliness? This is Audrey’s story. How It All Started Audrey was a recent college graduate when she signed up for...
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Outward Bound alumni find ways to apply their experience and skills in a multitude of industries and jobs, in addition to leading the charge in many outdoor industry platforms. I am honored to draw from the deep and passionate pool...
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When I was in high school, I had a dream of hiking Vermont’s Long Trail, a footpath along the spine of the Green Mountains that would take around a month to complete. I was inspired by my father who had...
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From all angles, Scotty Hernandez is an unlikely author. That may be because he is only 19 years old, or because he is a product of the Bronx, a notoriously dangerous but culturally rich borough of New York City. “Statistically...
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I’m the “type” of person people expect to go on an Outward Bound expedition, and not only because I work for Outward Bound. Most of my friends use words like adventurous, bold and daring to describe me. (I checked.) I’ve...
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