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Additional Benefits of Outdoor Leadership

Additional Benefits of Outdoor Leadership

Our Outdoor Leadership elective uses team challenges and adventures to build confidence, resilience, and problem-solving while helping you discover your personal leadership style.

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  • Take part in exciting outdoor activities: Spend time taking on fun team tasks and challenges in beautiful outdoor settings.


  • Develop leadership skills: Discover and develop your personal leadership styles and learn how to adapt them to different scenarios.


  • Learn to build trust and work in a team: Build trust and improve group dynamics through team-building exercises and cultural awareness.


  • Build your communication skills: Learn active listening, effective feedback techniques, and communication strategies for a range of different situations.


  • Gain problem solving abilities: Solve complex problems through creative approaches.


  • Discover your personal leadership strengths: Reflect on personal growth, understand individual strengths, and expand emotional intelligence.


  • Grow in confidence: Gain the skills to confidently manage others to help achieve the best results


  • Learn to stay calm under pressure: Gain tools to manage stress and foster proactive and reactive resilience.


  • Develop forward planning ability: Learn to identify potential setbacks in advance, helping you tackle projects with confidence.


  • Highly qualified and experienced teachers: Our teachers are highly qualified and passionate about helping students develop new skills. We also focus on finding teachers with real life, working expertise in their subject areas.


  • Engaged community of students from over 80 nationalities: You’ll learn in an environment where everyone shares and learns from different perspectives, inspiring and challenging each other to grow.


  • Balanced programme to educate hearts and minds: Academics and Electives are paired, helping students explore other interests, have fun and experience a balanced education.


  • Ideal 3-week programme length: Three weeks gives students time to make real progress in their learning, build confidence, and form lasting friendships.


  • Inspiring surroundings in world-renowned universities: The prestigious surroundings of St Andrews, Cambridge and Yale offer a unique learning environment that has inspired many great minds throughout history.

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How it works

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We offer an all-inclusive 3-week residential stay at one of our exclusive University locations for students between the ages of 13 - 18

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Students choose one Academic and one Elective option from the progamme.

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Everyone takes part in exciting activities, evening programmes and cultural trips

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Each nationality is limited to 10% of the total intake of students to ensure a truly international experience.

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