Experiental Education
This plays a role in all areas of the Euro-BBW. Handling new, difficult situations and experiences made as a group develop or improve soft skills and build up self confidence. Below are a few examples of our experiential education activities to date:
- Canoo and kayak trips
- High wire course and climbing: Safety takes top priority during climbing. We only climb tested and registered routes. The specialist equipment is made to the necessary high standard of quality. Our supervising specialists are certified and regularly complete in-service training.
- Night time walks
- Orientation with map and compass through unknown territory
- Archery
- Tours for several days in a foreign country (eg. south France, Sweden, Italy)
- Fishing
Besides offers of experiental education, we also offer animal-assisted therapy:
Therapeutic riding gently introduces our participants to horses: from observing them at the very beginning to finally attending and riding them. This therapy develops self-assurance, responsibility and confidence and takes place at the Nengshof nearby.
In one of our residential houses we regularly work with a dog. Like a horse, a dog also has a lot of positive effects on our participants: It accepts a person as he/she is, it helps to establish social contacts and counteracts isolation, it raises their sense of responsibility and it invites to be active and to play. In groups, a dog can lead to an increased feeling of togetherness.
