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So... What areas of skills and personal development could a lifeadventure encourage? |
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A well designed life adventure can enhance skills and play an important catalytical role in stimulating personal development and growth in several areas. You can increase personal confidence, develop new skills, leadership skills, creative and thinking process, team working, communications skills etc...
- Increased personal confidence . Undertaking new experiences can develop self reliance and confidence by helping you recognised how skilled you already are.
- Devloping new skills. Volunteering activities can help you accumulate new skills; practical and cognitive.
- Developing your leadership skills. Undertaking group activities can help develop your leadership potential and skillsbase.
- Developing your creative and thinking processes. By meeting new people and sharing experiences you can add to your knowledge base. By sharing as equals we can learn different ways of doing old things, finding other ways to solve problems and deal with barriers to success.
- Team Working. The camaraderie of trekking, exploration, climbing or other adrenaline activities can help develop your abitlites to be a positive member of a team, clarify your understanding of how teams work and help you develop methods of overcoming difficulties. In addition some of the volunteering activities demand a group approach to achieving a goal.
- Communication Skills. By staying with local families and meeting local people you will find the need to develop clarity and purpose in your communications, including the development of your non verbal skills in situations where English is not the primary language used.
- Raising your Cultural Awareness. Staying with local families and undertaking some of the cultural tours avaialble will lead to exposure of a different culture and spirituality, which will undoubtedly encourage the development of new ways of thinking.
- Increased awareness of our social responsibility. Throughout your Lifeadventure you will find postive values communicated. Valiues such as Respecting Others, Respecting Beliefs, Respecting teh Environment and Respecting Yourself.
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