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a manual
168 pages
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My first experience with Outward Bound was in Wales at the British
Army Outward Bound School where I was a student and then an
instructor. From there I became a civilian and joined the staff at
Rhowniar, the British Girls Outward Bound School, also in Wales.
Here I was in charge of rock climbing and kayaking.
I then moved to
Australia and became Chief Instructor of the Australian Outward Bound
School located at Fisherman's Point on the Hawkesbury River. When I
left that school I wrote this Outward Bound Manual, as much to help
instructors do their job as record the methods of the program.
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Chief instructor, Michael Jeneid, watched by the Prince of Wales
(aged sixteen) and students of the Austrailian National Outward
Bound School as he demonstrates rappelling. San Francisco Examiner
writer Micky Friedman, describing Jeneid's life as a poet, scholar
and skier, called him "A Sportsman For All Seasons." His latest book
focuses on the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's bird imagery.
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This book paved my way to the United States where I became a watch
officer at Hurricane Island Outward Bound Sea School in Penobscat Bay,
Maine. I was seconded from Hurricane Island to the Colorado Outward
Bound School in the Snowmass region to help run their teachers'
Practicum.
Next I opened my own Outward Bound-style program within the Phoenix
House Rehabilitation Programs on Hart Island in the Bronx and
Manhattan. This program, called S.U.R.G.E., then got an airing as a
drug prevention program at the United Nations International School in
Manhattan. Survival, Urgency, Re-creation, Guts, and Enthusiasm equals
SURGE! This self-orientation and leadership training program was
extremely successful (also covered by the New York Times), so much so
that John Silber, President of Boston University, invited me to open
my program as a department in the university.
The university then published my 'Surge Manifesto' called Human
Limitations, Judgment and Survival, and I became an associate
professor in the Boston University School of Education. All I was
doing with Surge was what Kurt Hahn had in mind when he founded the
first Outward Bound School in Scotland, which is explained in detail
in this book.
My final stints with Outward Bound were at the Dartmouth College
Outward Bound Center, as course director, and finally in Florida
where I blue-printed an effective program to help get convicted youth
off probation.
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