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Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Abstract

In explaining to a potential client what issues could be accomplished in a weekend program you find yourself stumbling over why there are limitations to what could be addressed in such a short time frame.

When training new facilitators you are asked how to select- out of such a wide range of possibilities - the activity or initiative that is most suited to the needs of a specific group and builds appropriately on their previous experiences.

Intuitively adventure programmers know the answer to these two scenarios. The difficulty arrises when we are asked to explain our reasoning to people not as familiar with the discipline of adventure--based learning. It is easy to recognise the beneficial outcomes from this type of experience however, when it comes to explaining exactly why and how adventure programming works we often find ourselves in search of appropriate words.

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