| The mountain is a school. According to years of experience in foreign outdoor adventure teaching, outdoor natural environment can help the mental growth and development of leadership ability. It can bring valuable life experience to the students. Chao Kuang Piu College of the University of Macau has cultivated students to become social leaders with the elements of outdoor adventure education.
CKPC Me to We leadership adventure team went to Red Rock Canyon National Park in Las Vegas, USA from May 27th to June 9th, 2019 for a 14-day basic outdoor and rock climbing experience with technical training, American outdoor culture awareness and hiking. We believe that overseas experience allows young people to position themselves and create a "different" and “new” future. Stepping out of the comfort zone, curiosity allows them to explore the joy of life. These intrinsic motivation is also for future life planning and goal setting to achieve courage and strength in changing life.
Miker, the leader and instructor, said that outdoor adventure education provides an alternative educational environment to enhance students' leadership and decision-making ability. However, leaders must possess different abilities and qualities depending on their culture and growing environment. Therefore, in addition to consolidating the value of CKPC Me to We leadership adventure team of becoming the servant leaders, the team has always awakened their respective leadership styles, recognized their own leadership skills, and found self-worth. Whenever students are concentrating on the up-and-coming teammates, as a mentor we have been thinking of issues for reflection from "climbing" for students. In this generation, Macao is too rich in "welfare". Everyone starts to think about what I can get while fewer people think about what I can "give". Finally, we let students to reflect. As a guarantor during the climbing, what can we give to the climbers? Such "give" and "receive" issues can be applied by students throughout their lives. |