By Meg Turner, Principal at Owen High School in Asheville, NC Recent events at Owen High School have made me more committed than ever to the Outward Bound process. What happened here is proof that the group dynamics, the seeds...
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By Alumna Kami O., Outward Bound Veteran Program It’s hard to put into words what my 10,000 Islands Canoe trip did for me. To be honest, I still think I’m trying to figure it all out, myself. It was definitely not...
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By Alumna Cathia Friou, From It Is Solved By Walking Blog, 10,000 Islands Sea Kayaking Back in 2011, I went sea kayaking with some fellow mid-lifers on an Outward Bound excursion in Florida. As one of the oldest and most respected outdoor...
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By Alumna Cathia Friou, From It Is Solved By Walking Blog My parents still live in the same house I grew up in. They have been there for 44 years and have no plans to take the townhome or retirement community...
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By Alumni PA Supreme Court Justice Correale Stevens, Parent-Child Course, 1998 It was 1998, and I received a phone call no one wants, my doctor telling me I had non-hodgkins lymphoma for the second time in my life. Although this...
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The Citizen Times, Nov. 10, 2015 Forty feet up in the air, eye-level with the autumn treetops, Rusty Achenbach felt his heart racing as he inched his way across the scariest part of the ropes course — a wobbly beam...
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For the fall edition of Trail Tales we are highlighting the great work of our longtime Atlanta staff member, Jemar Raheem. Jemar started his career with Outward Bound in 1995 at Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, MA....
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The Transylvania Times, August 3, 2015 Teen volunteers from Outward Bound and the Rotarian Youth Leadership have been helping out at Rice Street Community Garden this summer. The teens, aged 14 to 18, harvested vegetables, watered plants, pulled weeds, filled...
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“His being is more than his doing.” One of the things that has made North Carolina Outward Bound School (NCOBS) exceptional since our founding is our team of dedicated instructors and staff. For nearly 50 years, these pioneers in experiential...
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