1. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MASTERY:

To enhance the participant’s self-concept and extend their self-awareness.

• Identifying personal limits and potential

• Clarify needs and goals

• Recognize the individual’s role in the organization and acknowledging a responsibility to self and others

• Overcoming hesitation, fears, and fatigue when confronted by a physical and mental challenge

• Conveying a positive self-regard in appearance and manner and by putting forth one’s position, especially when it differs from prevailing or dominating views

• Accepting responsibility for their actions and feelings, including being willing to accept and follow through on leadership assignments

• Recognizing personal strengths and limitations and being willing to help when needed

• Taking initiative in doing tasks and in doing new things

• Having fun

2. INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS:

To expand participant sense of community and capacity for responding to others by..

• Practicing honest, open and effective communication

• Developing cooperative relationships around common projects

• Being willing to help companions achieve by offering physical and mental support

• Having empathy for and being responsive to the needs and feelings of others

• Deferring personal for the betterment of the group

• Assuming leadership position in need arises

• Tolerating others’ points of view, lifestyle & values, and showing a willingness to discuss differences and defend the rights of others.

3. ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS:

To enhance the participants understanding of fragile nature of wild areas, and to increase the student's sense of responsibility for the care and preservation of such amenities.

• Showing a willingness to learn about the natural environment and its care

• Exhibiting care towards living things and nature

• Adhering to leave no trace guidance/ethics

4. LEARNING:

To instill an attitude of curiosity, experimentation and participation by encouraging participants to...

• Ask questions

• Try new things

• Mastery of newly acquired knowledge and skills