Oct 4, 2014 | Outdoor Leadership Training Tips (Blog Series), Youth Ministry
Well-researched trends in youth ministry are pointing to the need for more emphasis on small group outdoor adventure programs. I’ve been working to develop wilderness ministry programs around the world for a while now and I can confidently say that small group...
Sep 25, 2012 | Adventure Therapy, Leadership Skills, Social Work & Outdoors, Worldview
This post is part of a 10 part series called, “The 10 Tent Stakes of Our Worldview | Lessons from the Wilderness”… For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. -Eph.2:10...
Sep 20, 2012 | Adventure Therapy, Business Lessons from the Wilderness, Marketing Outdoor Ministry, Program Management, Recruiting Participants or Guides
British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton placed this recruiting advertisement in London newspapers in 1900 in preparation for the National Antarctic Expedition: INDIVIDUALS WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete...
Sep 1, 2012 | Adventure Therapy, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Performance, Spiritual Formation
An Outdoor Lifestyle is a Remedy for an Addiction to the Drug of Drivenness He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. (Proverbs 3:34) 4 Ways a Christ-centered Outdoor Lifestyle Heals the Achilles Heal of Performance Anxiety At times in my life, of my...
May 3, 2012 | Adventure Therapy, Facilitation, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills, Outdoor Leadership Training Tips (Blog Series), Risk Management
This had been one epic trip so far. The group of high school kids were loving life as we had traveled deep into the heart of the Weminuche Wilderness area of southern Colorado. We camped that night high on a ledge in Snowslide Basin and after a great dinner and...
