Wilderness Escape Outdoor Adventures

For over three decades, Wilderness Escape Outdoor Adventures has been at the forefront of providing unparalleled outdoor education experiences for students ranging from Primary to SACE levels. In collaboration with schools, we offer distinctive opportunities for students to connect with their surroundings, uncover their potential, and cultivate vital life skills, all while fostering strong relationships with peers and educators. As South Australia's largest provider of outdoor education programs, we have gained national recognition for our leadership in school-based experiential education.

At Wilderness Escape, we employ an outcome-based approach and a deep understanding of experiential learning theory to design programs that yield optimal results. Our focus revolves around key concepts, including developing diverse skills through safe and active participation, building communication and collaboration skills, promoting personal health and mindfulness in natural settings, enhancing decision-making abilities through independently led journeys, fostering a growth mindset, and deepening an appreciation for natural environments.

Choose Wilderness Escape for an enriching outdoor education experience that goes beyond the ordinary, leaving a lasting impact on students' personal and academic growth.

With an outcome-based approach and a sound understanding of the theory of experiential learning, we design programs to ensure students get the best results from their experience.

To maximise the effectiveness of your outdoor education experience, we focus on the following key concepts:

• Developing a range of skills & knowledge through safe & active participation.
• Building communication & collaboration skills by achieving common goals.
• Promoting personal health, wellbeing & mindfulness through immersion in natural environments.
• Enhancing decision making skills & personal responsibility through task-orientated, independently led journeys.
• Fostering positive growth mindset & personal development through the undertaking and achievement of self-propelled journeys.
• Increasing appreciation of natural environments through building human-nature relationships, the development of cultural appreciation & a “sense of self”.