RESEARCH
Advancing our knowledge of the nexus between adult development and the wilderness experience.
Interested guests can help us learn how wilderness expeditions, when combined with deliberately developmental coaching, can advance mental complexity, enhancing our capacity to become bigger and better versions of self.
What we ask of you:
Guests who agree to serve as research participants will complete a pre-expedition Subject-Object Interview (to determine developmental position), and a post-expedition semi-structured interview (to capture how the participant makes sense of the wilderness experience).
Once we have the data:
The researchers (Curt Pollock and Nevin Harper), will score the SOI, analyze the semi-structured interview, identify themes, and, using that information, attempt to better understand how the wilderness experience interacts with deliberate attempts to advance adult development. Findings will be published in peer reviewed journals and in non-academic publications to promote thoughtful conversation around these important topics.
Why research?
We do this because we care about people, and we care about wild places. We long to better understand how the interaction between them can enrich human life and lead to better decisions; decisions that, ultimately, may help ensure our survival and the survival of the planet we call home.
In the words of Johann Wolfgang Goethe: “One learns to know only what one loves, and the deeper and fuller the knowledge is to be, the more powerful and vivid must be the love, indeed the passion”.