Designing Residential Wilderness Programs for Adults

Written by Michael Day, an experienced adult education professor and designer of residential programs, and by Ellen Petrick, Manager for Formal Education for Yellowstone National Park from 1994 to 2001, this book stresses the value of residential wilderness experiences for adults and articulates the need for organizing programs that provide physical and emotional benefits, that develop individual -wilderness relationships, and that promote self-growth. Combining theories with practice, the book exhibits an intrinsic relationship between wilderness and adult residential education, articulates the value of adult residential programs in wilderness settings, provides rationales and guidelines to plan and conduct residential programs, and presents two meaningful approaches and strategies for experiencing wilderness: sauntering and journaling.