Basic Qualification in Wilderness Education and Addiction Prevention

Basic Qualification in Wilderness Education and Addiction Prevention

Target Group:

Educational Staff

Description:

Wilderness education is an ideal tool to expand social and preventive work and to explore the healing (and free!) resource of nature in a mindful way. The power of community in wilderness camps, which together manage life outdoors, promotes self-esteem, belief in self-efficacy, conflict resolution skills, strengthens resilience and provides security.

On the basis of wilderness education, the par­tic­i­pants are enabled to adapt the content to their respective field of work with children, adolescents or families. Be it in a wilderness camp or in an ongoing group work over the year or individual days outside in the forest.

A major component of the training will be the connection of wilderness education with social pedagogical and (addiction-) preventive work: an exciting substance-free experience space, as neither alcohol nor drugs are accepted here and a media-free space is offered per se.

Goals:

• Learn to know and apply content and methods from addiction prevention and wilderness education
• Be able to move safely with groups in the forest
• Reflect the application for your own work area
• Experience yourself as part of nature