This advanced training course is designed for professionals within the broad sectors of ecological and social education, and for practising or future leaders in the area of outdoor adventure education.
Based on a mix of innovative psychological concepts and change-focused activities, this five-day course provides the intellectual skills and tools for sustainable, impact-oriented education. The program is not meant to provide training on techniques and material, but helps participants to create an atmosphere conducive to behavioural change. In the past, teachers, outdoor leaders, curriculum designers, social workers, post-graduate and graduate students, park rangers and NGO employees have all attended.
 

Learning something new doesn’t always mean we will behave according to that new information. We know a great deal about the world’s problems but how many of us are actually compelled to do something about them?

People often change their behaviour as a result of significant life experiences rather than simply as a result of acquired knowledge. One widely accepted trigger for significant life experiences is outdoor adventure – journeys of uncertain outcome.
 

The EasyDay approach brings together direct experiences of nature with a chance to develop critical ways of thinking about our everyday lives. It does this using adventure as a catalyst

to shift the way we perceive ourselves, and our relationship to the world around us.

Powerful outdoor experiences can give rise to such transformation, but it needs a skilled leader to create the context and atmosphere that allows people to learn and grow.
 

The overall objectives of this course are to:
• Provide the necessary theory,
  exercises and techniques central
  to eco-education

• Enable participants to integrate eco-education elements
  into their professional practices
• Support environmentally friendly outdoor and
  adventure tourism
• Give participants grounding in deep ecological awareness

Benefits
Organisations and individuals will gain numerous benefits:
• Insights into the psychology of change processes and
  the tools to set them in motion
• Inspiration for their field of work
• Ability to answer public demand for environmental
  accountability in outdoor tourism
• Add a unique selling point to existing outdoor
  or educational programs
• Ability to facilitate Corporate Responsibility training
  and other high-profile tasks
• New contacts with outdoor facilitators from all over Europe