Peer Leaders
What better way to develop the skills of communication, listening, kindness and patience than through behavioral practice and reflection discussions. The experiential activities go so much further than the important, but limited classroom session on “how to be a good peer leader”. Here at Out On A Limb, students need to discuss plans, make decisions, include others, and check in with one another throughout the challenges that they are presented with. Through facilitated discussions, the peer leaders gain a deeper sense of their own skills and the areas that they can strengthen in order to be an awesome peer leader at their schools.
School Orientation
Middle school, high school or college - students come together from different places and form a new and bigger community. Spending a day with structured and fun “get to know you” activities will jump start the process of creating the new community. Students will laugh together, successfully address challenges together and get to know their fellow students faster and in an enjoyable way.
College
Classes, clubs, associations and fraternities/sororities - enhance your community through fun, purposeful activities.
“You tailored the core subject matter to your audience...I really appreciated ... noting something positive about each person. It really refocused the purpose of the activities and reinforced teamwork being something designed to lift others up. You do that through encouragement.”
-Professor Kelli Hayes, Academic Coaching Supervisor
Bergen Community College
Class Trips with Purpose
What are your school values? We’ve reinforced behaviors such as:
RESPECT, INTEGRITY, CONFIDENCE, EXCELLENCE, RESPONSIBILITY, INCLUSION, KINDNESS, VALIDATION and more.
Private and public schools send their students to Out On A Limb to see that they have the power to create a positive culture.
“The activities we did were very interactive. They allowed us to work as a team and got us to know us as a group. They allowed us to come up with creative ideas. We learned in today's exercise sometimes asking for help is necessary for success. We should all work on becoming more comfortable doing that. Odds are, if you need help, so does someone else.”
-Students, Great Conversations Class, Bergen Community College
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
-John Lubbock
Science & Ecology Programs
Are you ready to explore our natural environment a little more deeply? We can explore our world by studying our local lakes, ponds, swamps and streams.
What micro and macro organisms can we identify? What animals inhabit water’s environs? Does the temperature of the water, rate of the water, or acidity make a difference with what organisms can live in it? Hands on activities enrich students’ understanding of our waterways in a fun and effective way.
Want to learn about the food chain in a unique and fun way? You will become the predator or the prey in our, all-in, “Survival Game”. This highly active exercise teaches students about the predator-prey cycle in an experiential way.
Teacher-In-Service
Administrators! Your teachers wield an amazing amount of influence on our future generation. Send your teachers to a Professional Development Day that they will remember and talk about for years to come. Whether the purpose is for staff bonding and encouragement, or we can give them tools on how to implement experiential teambuilding activities and methods into their own classrooms.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, common citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has”
-Margaret Mead
