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Stanfield, M. Hunter; Baptist, Joyce – Journal of Experiential Education, 2019
Background: The intense nature of the camp experience and the unique role of camp counselors can be a rewarding experience for camp counselors and campers alike. However, to experience compassion satisfaction necessitates evaluation of a number of factors that may enhance or decrease compassion satisfaction. Purpose: To better understand the camp…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Outdoor Leadership, Counselors, Altruism
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Tsikalas, Kallen E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This research examines the characteristics of adults that girls and adult OST facilitators consider most important for supporting positive youth development experiences in the outdoors. Three factors are identified: Emotional support, challenge support, and outdoor preparedness. While Emotional Support is rated most important by both girls and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Children, Females
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West-Smith, Lisa – Journal of Experiential Education, 1997
Uses the scenario of a women's adventure therapy trip to illustrate theoretical and practical information about "basic" therapeutic communication skills with participants in outdoor adventure settings. Discusses gender-based language style (women's "tentative" language), issues of physical and emotional safety, a philosophical…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Communication Skills, Empowerment, Females
Miranda, Wilma; Yerkes, Rita – 1996
Over 70 years ago, female leaders in organized camping, the only form of outdoor experiential education then available, shaped the meaning of professionalism and controlled organizational structures and policies. Their achievement is paradigmatic of women's professional struggles in the outdoor pursuits professions in this century. This book…
Descriptors: Camping, Educational History, Females, Feminism
Ditter, Bob – Camping Magazine, 2000
Responds to a letter from a camp leader who experienced difficulty with an adolescent girl during a 3-day hike and disapproved of a staff member's response. Offers advice on handling such a problem, addressing the staff member's intervention without undermining his credibility, revisiting the situation with the group, and exploiting the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Camping, Females, Group Dynamics
Millette, Margot; Porter, Tom – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2001
A study found that male and female co-leaders of wilderness camping trips were very aware of stereotypes of male and female leadership roles. Sometimes leaders deliberately performed stereotypical tasks and roles of the opposite sex, but tasks and roles generally resulted from preferences, necessity, or participant expectations. The D-R model of…
Descriptors: Camping, Cooperation, Females, Foreign Countries
Miranda, Wilma; Yerkes, Rita – Camping Magazine, 1987
Questionnaire responses of 130 women outdoor leaders representing Outward Bound, all-women groups, university recreation instructors, and primary/secondary school teachers were compared as to background, income, motivations, and leadership perceptions. Essential leadership qualities were identified: effective communication skills and knowledge of…
Descriptors: Administration, Attitudes, Camping, Comparative Analysis
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Mitten, Denise; Dutton, Rosalind – Journal of Experiential Education, 1993
Emphasizes the importance of leader awareness of the discomfort and need for emotional safety that may surface for women survivors of sexual abuse during an outdoor experience. Discusses survivor's self-perception and how this affects the outdoor experience; the impact of natural elements on survivors; and how to help survivors develop coping…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Affective Behavior, Coping, Females
Mairs, Beth – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 1999
The founder of an all-women canoe-tripping company describes the components that have made it successful: shared leadership, outdoor guides as facilitators, support of individual choices, a nonprescriptive agenda, conflict avoidance and resolution, balance between getting somewhere and experiencing the moment, focus on women's strengths, and a…
Descriptors: Camping, Canoeing, Conflict Resolution, Educational Strategies
Roberts, Nina S., Comp. – 1993
This document contains a list of authors who have published research studies pertaining to women's experiences and adventures in the outdoor environment, a complete bibliography of their publications, and a set of abstracts of a selection of these publications in a separate section. The complete bibliography includes 124 books, journal articles,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Camping, Females
Joyce, Moon – 1996
Experiential educators are encouraged to include singing in their curriculum. Singing offers a dynamic form of creative engagement and can assist learners in taking risks in their learning and in active experimentation. As a holistic learning tool, singing engages the six capabilities that humans have for learning: physical, emotional, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Empowerment, Experiential Learning, Females
Johnson, Dale – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1990
Women engaging in outdoor activities tend to be more supportive of each other and more willing to express their feelings and apprehensions about adventurous settings than are men. It is important for women to have strong female leaders as role models. Instructors should be aware that women's learning styles and learning curves differ from men's.…
Descriptors: Fear, Females, Leadership Styles, Outdoor Activities
Henderson, Karla – 1996
Feminist perspectives provide a basis for examining the nature of participation in outdoor experiences, the goals of outdoor leadership, and the meanings associated with the outdoors. Feminism is concerned with the correction of both the invisibility and distortion of female experience in ways relevant to social change and removal of social…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Females, Feminism, Feminist Criticism
Kennedy, Carolyn L. – 1996
This book was written to help Girl Scout leaders prepare themselves and the girls with whom they work to enjoy outdoor experiences together. It complements the age-level handbook and leaders' guide, and training provided by the local Girl Scout council. The book contains nine chapters. The first chapter lists age-level characteristics of girls,…
Descriptors: Camping, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Females
Mitten, Denise – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1998
Describes an adventure-therapy program run by Woodswomen in conjunction with the Minnesota Department of Corrections, designed to help women offenders learn new skills and ways of being that will help them stay out of jail. Discusses leadership considerations, a parallel program for their children, and the application of risk-taking skills for…
Descriptors: Camping, Correctional Rehabilitation, Experiential Learning, Females
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