The Elixir Experience for Life Skills Development

The Elixir Experience is one of the most authentic and meaningful life skill journeys that a young person could have the privilege of taking at such a critical stage of their personal development. Our experiences take young people to the most beautiful and remarkable natural wonders of the world to facilitate the discovery of their vocation and “calling”. Groups are lead by professional wilderness guides and vocation coaches who take participants through a process of self exploration such that they translate an inspirational personal vision into a personal development plan that will foster holistic development. The Elixir Experiences canbe desined to incorporate into existing outdoor education programs and can range in  duration, difficulty and team dynamics, to ensure that the group will nurture the valuable perspectives needed to develop your students self awareness. 

Benefits of the Elixir Experience

• It allows young people to experience eco-facilitation, a very unique and powerful experitntial learning methodology.
• Unlike most school outdoor education programs, this experience is focussed primarily on Vocation Development, making it a very unique and personal experience for students.
• The wilderness provides a perfect space for young people to relax, expand and to process the often difficult emotions that come with growing up. The wilderness takes away all the conventional pressures and mental constructs that impede the authentic development of a young person.Through coaching the students are able to construct meaning out fo their experience such that they can make better choices when navigating life
• Interacting with eco-systems in wilderness allows young people to instinctively internalise key life principles that nature has refined over 3.8 billion years of evolution. Participants will relate the principles to the development of their vocation. Including:
  • Synergy- Looking for collaborative ways to solve challenges and explore ideas.
  • Purpose/Identity- Recognising that each individual and organism has a role to play.
  • Resilience- To challenges, obstacles and growth opportunities faced at school and in life.
  • Acceptance- Of other people, situations and circumstance.
  • Adaptation- Changing perception and procedure to meet personal and community needs more effectively.
  • Sustainability- of each person’s development and the planet
  • Effectiveness– exploring the optimal use of time, energy, resources and strengths

• The wilderness tells many powerful stories of how human beings developed and it helps people explore the contrasts, paadoxes and dynamics that impact our lives Through understanding the evolution ofour societal value systems, young people will appeciate what influences oru behaviour and choices
• The quality, authenticity and inspiration of a vision is always more remarkable when created in wilderness. Nature gives us a purpose and calls to our responsibility as leaders of mankind and the planet.

Read a case study of the experience wth Bishops High School Grade 10's