A
re you an active or aspiring outdoor educator? This is your opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for teaching and leading field-based wilderness education programs.
While in the desert, you’ll learn basic outdoor living skills such as minimum-impact camping, first aid, and map reading.
We’ll also give you an inside track into the fundamentals of running wilderness education courses with an overview of program supervision, risk management, and NOLS administrative practices.
While building a foundation of program knowledge, the course dives into a 19-day backpacking expedition in the pristine desert landscape of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge followed by 10 days of rock climbing at Cochise Stronghold or Joshua Tree National Park.
Southwest Outdoor
Educator, Backpacking and Rock Climbing
The Southwest is an ideal learning ground for outdoor educators to strengthen their teaching and technical skills. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona
Photo: Josh Beckner
"NOLS was my first experience of taking
something that was hard and overcoming it. I came away from
NOLS with a feeling that the outdoors was something I belonged
to and that belonged to me."
Janice Bloom
Southwest Outdoor Educators Course, 1997; Wind River Wilderness,
1988
High School teacher
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