Urban Leadership Program: Here you’ll find challenging outdoor journeys suited for developing strong urban, multicultural, and at-risk youth leaders and communities through the use of wilderness experiential education experiences.
Purpose: The Boundary Waters Experience adventure programs provide unique experience-based wilderness experiences to: discover the self, share with one another, engage with nature, and explore faith. The results of our experiences are strong leaders, strong communities, and being empowered to make healthy life choices.
Method: We provide challenging, small group, experience-based wilderness adventures, facilitated by our trained and qualified Trail Guide Staff. BWX Trail Guides implement several active elements in order to achieve our goals. These include: sharing of structured life stories between guides, leaders and youth, trust and cohesion building exercises, group studies and conversations, affirmation sessions and periods of reflective appraisal with space left open for appreciating the wilderness and having fun.
Activities: While on the trail, groups will experience the 1.2 million acre treasure of pristine wilderness that is overflowing with over 1,200 lakes, rivers, and streams. In this beautiful experiential based learning classroom, groups participate in structured conversations, sharing life stories (an opportunity to hear the stories of what makes each person uniquely themselves) and reflection times. BWX programs allow people to learn about each other in depth by: living, working, learning, playing, eating, sharing, reflecting, and being dependent on each other.