Day 1
- Participants arrival
- Outdoor individual orientation and information about the venue and the
city
- Networking activities
- Guided visit in Bologna
- Welcome dinner
Day 2
- Course introduction
- Teambuilding activities
- Competences ex-ante evaluation
- Key principles and benefits about outdoor education and outdoor
learning
- The value of outdoor education for personal, social and relational
development
- Cultural activities in Bologna and traditional Italian aperitif
Day 3
- Out in the nature
- Philosophy, theory, and practices of experiential education and
environmental education
- Experimenting journey wilderness-based experiences, team building
activities and orienteering exercises in the nature
- Real cases experiences and reflections on current teaching practices and
styles
Day 4
- How to design, plan and deliver outdoor education activities
- Site & risk assessment and health & safety issues of taking students into
nature
- Practical work: designing and planning outdoor educational activities
- Guided visit in Florence (optional)
Day 5
- Teaching in the nature
- Practical work: delivering outdoor educational activities in the nature
- Debriefing, feedback and best practice sharing about environmental
education
Day 6
- Teaching outdoor in urban settings: outside the classroom there isn’t
only nature
- Experiencing group exercises and challenges, problem solving games,
experiential activities in Bologna
- Creating your own outdoor teaching style
- Dinner in traditional Italian restaurant
Day 7
- Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up
activities
- Course roundup and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional)
- Cultural activities or additional guided visit in another major Italian city
(optional)
- Participants departure
1240 euro, The price does not include flight tickets from your destination to the course venue.
For people travelling as participant in a Catholic Education Consortium, flight tickets are included + traveldays will be sunday (travelling to destination) and saturday (travelling back to Belgium).