Services
Growth Compass Adventures empowers student gains through therapeutic counseling and outdoor experiences.
Instruction and Modeling: (individuals or small groups)
Modeling Executive Functioning and Social-Emotional skills, such as organization and goal-setting, to impulse control and behavior modeling.
Format: Individual or small group, face to face, online, indoor, or outdoor.
Workshops: (individuals, groups, or families)
Practicing Executive Functioning, Social-Emotional skills, and collaborative exercises. Peer Feedback Sharing exercises incorporate students presenting group work and receiving structured peer feedback to refine and improve task management. Using Project Journals, where teams track their progress and reflect together on what worked and what didn’t, builds emotional resilience.
Format: These are bespoke sessions that can last 2 - 6 hours, depending on target outcomes.
Nature-based Experiences: (student groups, and or families)
Experiencing outdoor learning, utilizing Executive Functioning and Social Emotional skills to strengthen habits and grow confidence. Timed Team Projects, such as building a tower from limited materials within a set deadline, or Consensus-Building Tasks in which groups must agree on a survival tool ranking list (e.g., “What to take if stranded on an island”), involve tailored learning in nature-based environments.
Format: These can be weekend or three-day outings with minimal travel requirements.
Learn about our upcoming Himalayan Trek for students.
Students in international schools often face rigorous academic demands, multiple extracurricular activities, social challenges, and the constant pull of screens. These issues can strain healthy development, leaving students mentally and emotionally exhausted, which in turn affects their learning, emotional growth, and relationships.
Outdoor challenges, including trail navigation, group decision-making, and timed tasks, are activities that strengthen organization, self-regulation, and problem-solving skills. Research shows that time in nature also restores attention and allows the brain’s prefrontal cortex - the center of Executive Functioning - to recover from cognitive fatigue. These experiences not only build resilience but also support the neurological foundations of confidence and balance.
If If your child is struggling, you don’t have to figure it out alone.