Teenager expedition to Dartmoor

NOTE: BURSARY PLACES AVAILABLE - PLEASE ENQUIRE IF YOU FEEL YOU NEED ASSISTANCE

For lots of resources including videos, testimonials, pictures and FAQs, make sure you visit my website, starting here: https://chrispacke.com/what-i-offer/teen-expeditions/.

This is a meaningful overnight expedition which gives an excellent base of experience for a teenager (girl or boy) looking to enjoy the benefits of hiking trips. Whether it's a first time, or building on some previous experience, or deepening skills for Bronze or Silver Duke of Edinburgh, teenagers get a lot out of this trip, and also have a lot of fun.

Risk, challenges and meaningful shared experience in the warm company of strong role models and fellow adventurers are vitally important for young people, to discover their huge capabilities, what they might stand for, and to develop a deep-seated self-reliance. Security is important for teenagers but its layers must be carefully removed in order for the young people to emerge. Yet the availability and encouragement of such experiences may often be limited, or crowded out by digital influences. My events exist to facilitate deep encounters, learning through experiences in the natural world at the edge of comfort and ability, where the magic happens.

Skills learned include hillcraft and basic survival skills, campcraft, navigation, nature and hazard awareness - but the beauty of quality, immersive time in nature is that it tends to offer up exactly the lesson a person needs at the time... but often does not expect.

Once completing the Dartmoor trip, a natural progression would be to continue onto the Peak District and Lake District trips: it a bit like a Bronze / Silver / Gold progression, and each experience builds on the last. Details of these trips are also found on www.chrispacke.com.

We invite you to come and discover the vast resources already inside you, learn new skills, make new friends, discover new possibilities and perhaps take an important step or two in the journey of adulthood.

PARTIALLY FUNDED PLACES:
If this event appeals to you, but feels out of reach financially, then please do not turn away. I have a patron, the Spayne Lindsay Foundation, who supports my work, and we can have a conversation about how we might be able to help. Get in touch with me and we can talk about it

• What's included: food, accommodation, mentoring, tuition, activities, materials, group equipment
• Not included: Personal kit and travel costs. For the Devon event, an efficient option (and great fun) is to hire a minibus and drive the whole group. We would expect this to cost c.£75 per person on each occasion. For the Peak District and Lakes District trips, we usually travel together by train (also c. £75).
  Note that this travel time is not included in the indicated times for these two trips; we would be leaving in the morning and arriving in the afternoon on the way out, or you can meet us at the venue at the 4pm start time.
  Full details on kit and logistics are provided well in advance.

BOOKING PROCESS

1. Get in touch with Chris (use the 'Message Mentor' button - please make sure you leave your direct email and phone number)
2. Also check out the videos, references, testimonials, FAQs and other resources on www.chrispacke.com; you can also contact me through there
3. Then it's time for a conversation between parent / guardian and Chris
4. Once all are happy, and the participant has decided for themselves that they want to join in, we can go ahead with the booking

OTHER IMPORTANT INFO

• A base level of physical fitness is required, and a mindset to take on the various challenges. We will be carrying our equipment on consecutive days, often over rough terrain. By design, there is some struggle
• Similarly, this trip requires a degree of social / emotional skill, and an agreed willingness to engage in such challenges, as they come hand in hand with the physical endeavour. As with the physical aspects, it is fine (and normal) to struggle at times with social aspects, however for the benefit of the individual and the group, any participant must have the capability of functioning in a group situation, and be able to engage in the spirit of the programme. By design (in order to promote a feeling of independence and self-direction), the trip is 'lightly' staffed, so we cannot accommodate participants who need high levels of dedicated supervision.
• Bookings on this event are subject to Chris Packe's Terms and Conditions, available to view during the booking process and at https://chrispacke.com/terms-conditions/