On Tuesday 2 March our Intermediate VCAL students headed out to Belgrave to challenge themselves at the Harrow Park Trees Adventure. This experience is part of a personal strengths and stories of survival unit in which students identify their own personal strengths and explore ways in which people have overcome fears and moments of crisis using their personal strengths.
The Trees Adventure excursion gives students the opportunity to put into practice what they have learned about the strengths and lesser strengths they possess. Students worked in groups to encourage and motivate one another to take themselves out of their comfort zones and ‘face their fears’. During this time they were able to reflect on their own fears and explore ways in which to ‘survive’ such situations, using the skills and character strengths of themselves and those around them.
Congratulations to each and every one of our students for pushing themselves beyond the boundaries in which they had set themselves before arriving at Glen Harrow Park.
Our Intermediate VCAL students will continue to explore the idea of survival and ways to overcome times of crisis and the ‘fear of failure’ by investigating real-life stories of survival such as that of Aron Ralston, an American outdoorsman and motivational speaker known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off his own arm.
