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Billy's Values to Live By
Billyās Values to LiveĀ By
I recently saw a story about Doris Buffetās Letters Foundation on the Newshour. I thought: Wow, those folks at the Foundation have an awesome jobā read peopleāsĀ life stories all day long and then work to make a difference in their lives. But really, the Foundationās work has a lot in common with our work here at VOBS. We get to make a direct difference in lives every day. We seem to share someā¦
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MNCAPS & Outward Bound: Preparing Students for Life
MNCAPS & Outward Bound: Preparing Students forĀ Life
āItās an adventure!ā High school students enrolled in the Minnesota Center for Advanced Professional Studies are raving about their experience: āItās so much better than regular school. Iām working with clients. Iām communicating, collaborating on a team, meeting deadlinesā being responsible for a real project!ā Real life experience engages these students and serves as curriculum. Here at Outwardā¦
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A Commitment to STRIVE
A Commitment toĀ STRIVE
In the winter of 2013, I was an instructor on what we call an Insight Day here at VOBS, Twin Cities Center. This particular day, we were supposed to snowshoe. The students met us as at the site and we gave them extra layers to keep warm then showed them how to wear snowshoes. This snowshoe āprogramā quickly turned into a slog. Our crew spent at least half the time laying in the snow. We broke upā¦
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The Hitch Is Knot Enough
The Hitch Is KnotĀ Enough
My father is a dreamer, a man of ideas, who is always looking for the big moments in life. For my father, the holiday season is just the mixture of tradition, excitement and calendar pressure to squeeze in every moment before the ball drops and a new count down starts. When I was a kid, cutting down our family Christmas tree was a tradition he looked forward to every year. Ā He would yell,ā¦
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the challenges of the hour
the challenges of theĀ hour
One of VOBSā Twin Cities partners is New Lens Urban Mentoring Society. New Lens offers young adult, black males access to high quality mentoring with the goal of shrinking the achievement gap by increasing enrollment in challenging high school courses (AP, AVID and IB) and completion of post secondary experiences. VOBSā work with New Lens involves a 5-day Canoe Peer Leadership expedition in theā¦
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Rae-Rae: In Love With Being On Trail
Rae-Rae: In Love With Being OnĀ Trail
Iām delighted to introduce you to my friend and VOBS instructor extraordinaire, Rachel Hedlund. Rae-Rae, as she is affectionately known, has a super-infectious laugh, a surfer alter ego and is the only person I know who refers to Ruth Bader Ginsburg as āNotorious RBG.ā I was lucky enough to spend 8 days in her company on course this fall (if you are a reader of this blog, you know Rae-Rae mommedā¦
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Stormy Weather: An Adversity Epiphany
Stormy Weather: An AdversityĀ Epiphany
The air is thick and the barometric pressure is dropping. Something is brewing. Tension is buildingā in the atmosphere and in our crew. Itās just after 5pm on day 6 of our 8 day Boundary Waters Canoe Expedition in the Minnesota wilderness, and weāre trying to pick a campsite. āWeā are seven adults, ages thirty to sixty-two, who have been crushing it since daybreak. Weāve paddled into the wind andā¦
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New Lens on Life
New Lens onĀ Life
āSilence is powerful.ā Gayle Smaller takes off his glasses and with one sweeping gesture, invokes the grandeur of the North Shore. āOut there, the guys can hear it.ā āThe guysā are the promising young black men who are New Lens Urban Mentoring Society, and Gayle Smaller, New Lens founder, is a big man, with big ideas. One of his big ideas was New Lens Urban Mentoring Society. āWe want to makeā¦
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Phoenix Rocks
The rock, the rope and you. Rock climbing is pretty elemental, but the experience highlights some of the most complicated components of life. Nine students from Phoenix Military Academy climb an ancient tower of lava. These young men and women are rising sophomores and this climb at Interstate State Park is the final challenge in their week-long Voyageur Outward Bound Peer Leadership Expedition.ā¦
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In the solitude of autumn in the Boundary Waters, teens gain perspective difficult to find amid busy school schedules, demanding social pressures, and the temptation to always be plugged in.http://bit.ly/2cNyYda
Making Good On Goals: Ten Tips For Greater Success
Making Good On Goals: Ten Tips For GreaterĀ Success
As the first red maples are starting to turn on the road to Homeplace, I am reminded of a summer filled with Outward Bound alumni ā returning to school, work and new ambitions. With that transition comes another season of setting goals, and maybe or maybe not, achieving them. I wanted to shout out some encouragement as you chip away at nailing your post-course goals. Remember, the hardest part isā¦
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Influence of Bob Pieh
I never met Bob Pieh. Some of his children attended the Voyageur Outward Bound School 50th anniversary gathering in 2014 and I saw them there, but thatās my closest connection to the person himself. There is an excellent old movie, however, featuring Bob Pieh and describing what was going on at Voyageur Outward Bound SchoolĀ (then Minnesota Outward Bound School) in the late 60ās. Bob is dressedā¦
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10 Essential Canoeing Tips
I love boats. Canoes, really. They are simple. They float without fanfare. They have a history that harkens back 10,000 years to prehistoric dugout canoes, and more recently to the discovery of a well-preserved birch bark canoe dating 250 years old. There are tons of specialty canoes out there ā from outrigger canoes for ocean races to whitewater canoes that look more like stubby bathtubs forā¦
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We Are Always Outward Bound
We Are Always OutwardĀ Bound
In my family, Outward Bound is a rite of passage.Ā Growing up, Outward Bound was always brought up in conversations because that is how my parents met and it brought them into a community that is made up of people who are passionate about the wilderness and outdoor education. My parents raised my siblings and I to develop a strong sense of self, character, and a drive to make a difference whereverā¦
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Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding: Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding (Part 3)
Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding: Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding (PartĀ 3)
During the Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding, an Outward Bound course whose students represented peacebuilding organizations and perspectives from across the world, my teammates and I were charged with the task creating an effective, efficient, healthy, and supportive expeditionary team. The curriculum for the course had us discussing various facets of peacebuilding, and the reality ofā¦
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This journey exemplifies social and emotional learning (SEL). Empathy, emotion management, responsibility, problem solving, teamwork, and initiative are skills these young people now role model for other students. http://bit.ly/28Q9CaZ
Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding: Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding (Part 2)
Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding: Practicum on Experiential Peacebuilding (PartĀ 2)
What sets Outward Bound apart is a sharp focus on shared experience. The mode of wilderness travel is far less important than the group of people with whom you are engaged in a challenge. For over 50 years VOBS has brought together groups of strangers in the wilderness and successfully created community. Walk into a campsite on the Canadian border and you will find students gathering firewood forā¦
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