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What is Outward Bound?
Outward Bound Training (sometimes called Outdoor Outward Bound Training, Outdoor Outward Bound Training, Outward Bound Training Camp, Outward Bound Training, Adventure Learning and Outdoor Experience Training) has become a technology widely used to improve communication skills, cohesion, leadership, decision-making, competitiveness, interpersonal trust and personal psychological quality. The method it adopts is to gather a group of people who usually work together and bring them to an outdoor environment or facility for experiential and participatory training.

These outdoor environments and facilities provide completely different scenes from daily work, and satisfy different participants with diversified means.

Outward bound training usually uses natural environment such as mountains and rivers to achieve the training purpose of "tempering will, cultivating sentiment, perfecting personality and melting team" through carefully designed activities.

The courses of outward bound training are mainly composed of water courses, field courses and field courses. Water sports include swimming, diving, rafting and boating. Field courses include: hiking and camping, mountain climbing, field orientation, paragliding, outdoor survival skills, etc. The venue course is to use various training facilities such as overhead rope nets to carry out various team combination courses and psychological training activities such as rock climbing and jumping in special training grounds.

Outward bound training usually has the following four links.

1, Team Warm-up At the beginning of training, team warm-up activities help deepen mutual understanding among students, eliminate nervousness and build a team, so as to participate in various training activities easily and happily.

2. Individual events are designed according to the principle of maximum psychological challenge and minimum physical risk, and each activity is a great test of students' psychological endurance.

3. Team project Team project aims to improve students' sense of cooperation and team spirit, and promote mutual trust, understanding, tacit understanding and cooperation among students through complex and arduous activities.

4. Reviewing, summarizing and reviewing is helpful for students to digest, sort out and improve their experience in training, so as to achieve the specific purpose of the activity. Summary can enable students to transfer their training gains to their work, thus achieving the overall training objectives.

Outward bound training has the following remarkable characteristics:

1, comprehensive activities. All the projects of outward bound training are oriented by physical activities, which lead to cognitive activities, emotional activities, will activities and communication activities. There is a clear operation process, which requires students to devote themselves wholeheartedly.

2. Challenge the limits. It is difficult to expand the training program, which is manifested in the psychological test, requiring students to challenge their own ability limits and cross the "limit".

3. Personality in the group. Outward bound training implements group activities and emphasizes group cooperation, trying to make every student do his best to win glory for the group, and at the same time draw great strength and confidence from the group to show his personality in the group.

4. Peak experience. After overcoming difficulties and successfully completing the course requirements, students can feel a heartfelt sense of victory and pride, and get a rare peak experience in life.

5. Self-education. Teachers only explain the content, purpose, requirements and necessary safety precautions of the course to students before class, and generally do not talk about or participate in discussions during the activities, fully respecting students' subjective status and initiative. Even if it is a summary after class, the teacher just talks about it, mainly for the students to say it themselves. The purpose of self-education has been achieved. Through outward bound training, students have improved significantly in the following aspects: understanding their own potential and enhancing their self-confidence. Overcome psychological inertia and hone perseverance to overcome difficulties; Stimulate imagination and creativity and improve the ability to solve problems; Understand the role of the group and enhance the sense of participation and responsibility for the group; Improve interpersonal relationships, learn to care, and cooperate with groups more harmoniously; Learn to appreciate, care and cherish nature.

Outward bound training emphasizes an experience, a self-education from the inside out.

Expand people's values:

[Proactive] A positive attitude towards work and life is the core of expanding the spirit. Optimistic and confident, starting from me, the environment will change because of me; Do what you say, do what you say, do what you say; Care about customers from the heart;

Open-minded, responsive to change and proactive.

Serious and responsible, people and things are perfect because of seriousness, and paying attention to details is the performance of professionalism. Stick to promises and accumulate credit.

[Independent cooperation] Independent, do your job well, independent. The competitiveness of individuals and companies comes from your irreplaceable value. Only a high degree of independence can bring a high degree of cooperation. Local interests are subordinate to the overall interests; Create the greatest motivation with a win-win mentality.

[Sharing Success] Success comes from everyone's efforts and contributions, and success is the crystallization of cooperation; Share successful experiences and benefits. But sharing is not equal distribution, so we should eat the same pot. The above contents are compiled by Wuhan Chengzhi Outward Bound Training Company.