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9 unusual facts about Outward Bound


Brooks Thomas

These included Outward Bound, the educational organization that promotes self-discovery in the outdoors.

Colorado Academy

Activities unique to Colorado Academy include annual overnight trips—third grade students to the Plains Conservation Center, fifth grade students visit Crow Canyon, and eighth grade students go on an Outward Bound Leadership and Communication Retreat.

D'Entrecasteaux National Park

The outdoor education organisation, Outward Bound, operate within the park taking school groups on hiking expeditions.

Laura Shapiro Kramer

She has also been on the board of directors for the New York City Outward Bound Center and the Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York where she is Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board.

Mel Wasserman

He believes that this education model was in line with the teachings of Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound and John Dewey's views on education.

Mureş Floodplain Natural Park

The park administration was trained by Outward Bound Romania on experiential education strategies in the summer of 2007.

Outward Bound

Some of the more notable Outward Bound teachers include James Kielsmeier, Stan Hugill, Tom Kennerley, Paul Petzoldt, Robert B. Rheault, Karl Rohnke, and Willi Unsoeld.

Fuller had been seconded from the Blue Funnel Line following wartime experience during the Battle of the Atlantic of surviving two successive torpedo attacks and commanding an open lifeboat in the Atlantic ocean for thirty-five days without losing a single member of the crew.

Sedgeley

It was rescued from demolition and converted to office space in the 1990s by the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust and is currently occupied by Outward Bound.


Casco Bay High School

Casco Bay High School is a public Expeditionary Learning school in Portland, Maine, USA.

James E. Thompson

Thompson is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care, is an advisory board member of The Salvation Army and a trustee of Outward Bound Hong Kong.

The Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School

Kurt Hahn was the founder of several innovative and successful educational programs, among them Outward Bound and the United World Colleges.


see also

1786 in Great Britain

6 January - The outward bound East Indiaman Halsewell is wrecked on the Isle of Portland in a storm with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.

Outward Bound Singapore

Initially named the Outward Bound School of Singapore (OBSS), it was founded by then Minister of the Interior and Defence and Deputy Chairman of the People's Association, Goh Keng Swee in 1967.

Sutton Vane

Outward Bound also served as the unofficial inspiration for the made-for-TV movie Haunts of the Very Rich (1972), directed by Paul Wendkos, and it was still being revived by professional regional theatre companies throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century.