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Challenges Through Choice

Challenges Through Choice

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Our Challenges Through Choice course is a personal growth experience of self empowerment and challenge through mental and physical activities. Participants will learn the fundamentals of teamwork and how to use communication to creatively solve problems, learn from successes and failures, and take safe risks by challenging themselves to a level that is just beyond their personal comfort zone.

Both athletes and mentors will establish a positive working relationship with group members by building trust through honesty, fairness and dependability. They will learn to challenge themselves, create new friendships, and, most importantly, build self-esteem -- a key factor of being a leader. The course focuses on eight principles, including respect, integrity, citizenship, responsibility, courage, care, inquiry and excellence.

This course combines outdoor adventure and classroom education.

Contact Heather Harmer at 612-604-1276 or 800-783-7732 ext. 276 (Minnesota only), or e-mail at harmerh@somn.org for more information about Challenges Through Choice.