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Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Erlebnispädagogik | GFE
Internet: www.erlebnistage.de
E-Mail: info@erlebnistage.de
Methods
How we work.
Experiential outdoor education works with learning situations that are specifically created, confronting the pupil with personal and social challenges and giving them the opportunity to grow by mastering them. In order to achieve this, we have a vast array of activities and methods available. On the basis of your requirements and educational goals, we will use those to create an individual program. Reflections and evaluations will ensure successful learning.
Your goals and requirements. Our work starts with your requirements. In preliminary meetings we will gather information regarding the group, structure, previous experiences and expectations. And certainly also regarding your goals as a teacher or as a tutor. These can include:
- Reinforcing the classroom community
- Paying attention: listening and waiting for people to finish
- Opposing the formation of cliques
- Reinforcing the self-confidence of specific pupils
- Getting to know each other in a new class
- Preparing group work in school
- Practicing feedback
- Helping each other and accepting help
- Taking responsibility and initiative within the class
- ...
Examples of activities. Departing from these goals, we will then design a program that can be constantly adjusted to fit the requirements of the group and your goals during the week. This includes activities such as:
- Team tasks, problem solving tasks, interactive exercises:
- The group is presented with a task they can only manage together and in team work
- Low ropes course, zigzag, spider’s web, acid pond and many many more
- Rope activities:
- Tyrolian traverse
- Climbing on the tower, wall, rock, tree, climbing snake
- Abseiling
- Prusiking
- ...
- Nature activities:
- Hiking by night
- Bivouac
- Radio orientation
- 2 day expedition with overnight stay in a hut
- ...
Everyday life as an important learning field. Apart from any program, also everyday life offers a variety of learning situations that are particularly valuable as they are close to the participants’ world. This includes for example:
- Living together in a confined space
- Adapting to the peculiar characteristics of everyone
- Responsibility for the house that we hand over to the pupils at the start of the week
- Responsibility for the material provided by us
- Performing tasks for the group such as kitchen duty.
Our staff is constantly present. Our staff members are spending the entire week with the group, from preparing breakfast all the way to the evening around the camp fire. In this way, everyday life can become a huge learning field.
Action and reflection. After all, in experiential education, any activity is just a tool to achieve the goal. The goal is to create protected learning spaces where we can work on your goals and the participants can extend their self (personal) competence and social competence. Through reflection and evaluation of the events, experiences will be taken in consciously and the transfer into the participants’ personal world is being achieved.