Next period: 

2025

*including travel day

Description

The Outward Bound Advanced Training for Trainers course – Level 2 is a 10 days long  intense development program, designed for people who would like to gain professional in-depth experience and knowledge on various communication and facilitation-sustainability methods and techniques that can be implemented in the practices of non formal education and outdoor education. Our aim through the program is to offer a safe environment and a well-segmented time to experience certain selected approaches, practices and theories in an extended time period. These methods need a longer duration to observe, experience and practice the key elements and tricks that make the method efficient. 

Through AToT/2 our intention is to offer advanced knowledge from the field of non-formal education and corporate education in a practical format. During this discovery / rediscovery you have the chance to watch closely emerging patterns in your professional attitude and you will be offered support to enhance your strengths and work on your opportunities in an honest, direct and supportive environment. All the tools involved in the processes of the training aim for fine-tuning and expanding the vast knowledge that you already possess as a professional.

Be mindful! The AToT/2 is an exclusive program – this means that since involves a high amount of trust (on both ends: the participants and the facilitators), Outward Bound Romania offers this exquisite training course only to those who have taken part in the AToT/1, or the predecessor of this professionally enhanced program, the ToT Basic. If you are an Outward Bound practitioner anywhere in the world, then this restriction doesn’t apply to you. 

The course uses the outdoor environment to offer all sorts of context for the trial of the methods. At the OBR International Youth Center you have the chance to experience the approaches outdoor and indoor and you can prototype and test activities around the methodology according to your own context and your target group. We use a multi-day expedition in order to stimulate a deeper understanding of  the functionality and dynamics of these methodologies through a challenging frame of the expedition.

The program is designed to bring awareness to professional sustainability in the work-systems that you are using: the offered methods are there to create support systems through you can optimize your work, create a shared sustainable communication-culture in your professional environment, that brings awareness to things that have to change and actions that you can take. We will reach this through offering communication-systems that are scalable, measurable and broken down to steps to reach your group’s goal. All these systems are developed for and around teams, so group work will be an essential part of your training experience. At the heart of this process is ‘experiential education,’ or learning by doing. If you already use the Outward Bound Method you will have the chance to experience the extended version of it, and if you haven’t managed to use the OB Method yet, you will find practical tools and approaches with which you can combine it. 

We will work with situations that are unfolding on the spot or with concrete situations brought by you from home. We make sure that during the AToT/2 you will often switch between the roles of the participant, of the observer and of the facilitator and we pay extra attention to translate all your learnings and insights to your own context. This way you can start practicing the newly acquired skills and competencies that you unlocked right away! 

Conditions to participate:

• Must be able to participate during the entire period of the training

• Readiness for physical and mental challenges, including a 3-day expedition

• You already took part in our AToT/1 program, or the predecessor of this, the ToT Basic

Minimum: 20 years old by the start of program

Place: Outward Bound International Youth Center, Sovata, Gurghiului Mountains – Romania

Language:  Basic English

Individual investment: 

• If you come to the AToT/2 funded by Erasmus+, the price of the training is 1300 €.

• If you are from Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Danemark, USA & Canada: the investment for the AToT/2 is 980 €.

• if you are from Central and East European countries or outside of Europe please contact us for more information about scholarship opportunities!

 The cost covers:

•  the program costs

• equipment

• training handout & materials

• accommodation

• all meals

Type of certification of attendance awarded:

Outward Bound certificate of attendance for „Advanced Training of Trainers in Outdoor Education – Level 2”

Please take in consideration that this is a generic program draft, some parts of the program can change and some elements can switch place based on the actual context of the program (weather, corona-regulations, other influencing elements.