Outdoor Adventure Glossary

 


*Adventure Based Learning Process

*Experiential Education

*Play

*Challenge by Choice

*Full Value Contract

*Inter-Personal Intelligence

*Intra-Personal Intelligence

*Spotting/Safety

*Environmental Awareness

·        Minimum Impact

·        Overuse

·        Common Hazard

·        Practices

*Self-Confidence

*Group Expectations

*Brief

*Debrief

*Consensus

*Consensus building

*Community Building

*DECIDE model of Problem Solving

*Belay

*Belay System

*Henry David Thoreau

*Active Listening

*Feedback

*Reflection

*Acceptable Risk

*Characteristics of a High Functioning Team

/         Common Objective

/         Accepted Leadership - Shared Leadership

/         Appropriate Roles within a Group

/         Effective Strategies

/         Excellent Communication

 

 

 

 

*Knots: * use

·        Square

·        Clove Hitch

·        Bowline

·        Double 8

·        Single Trace 8

·        Fisherman’s

·        Prusik

*Trust

*Stages of group formation

/         Forming

/         Storming

/         Norming

/         Transforming

*Rubrics

*Self Assessment

Peer Assessment

*Comfort Zone Model / Theory

/         Comfort Zone

/         Growth / Learning Zone

/         Panic Zone

Compass

Orienteering

GPS (Geographical Positioning System)

Maximal Heart Rate

Hydration/Dehydration

Outdoor Hard Skills

Sustainable Development

Acceptable Risk

LEADERSHIP POWER

  • Referent power
  • Legitimate power
  • Expert power
  • Reward power
  • Coercive power

Group Formation

Goal Setting

Decision Making

Empathy

*Appreciative Inquiry