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Youth Challenge Courses

For ages-18-20 years | Duration- 10 days

Welcome to the Youth Challenge Course (YCC), a transformative 10-day journey customised for young individuals aged 18-20 as they transition to the next phase of their lives.

This program offers to engage in 120 hours of stimulating activities. Whether camping, trekking, or water-based, these challenges encourage participants to cultivate resilience and teamwork. Moreso, it provides the opportunity for self-discovery in a safe and supportive environment. Join us in equipping the youth with essential life skills and confidence for future endeavours.

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ABOUT THE COURSE

The Youth Challenge Course (YCC) is a comprehensive 10-day program for young adults aged 18-20, offering immersive activities. As participants engage in groups, they gain confidence to take up challenging tasks. Typical activities in the course include solo camping, trekking, height element rope challenges, youth camp, and water-based activities.

These experiences facilitate introspection, options exploration, and effective decision-making through reflective processes. The course aims to enhance self-discipline, resilience, and emotional control while fostering teamwork and leadership abilities.

Participants will develop physical fitness, courage, and competence while learning to transcend self-imposed limits. YCC ensures a secure learning environment, adhering to global safety standards and providing a holistic and empowering adventure for personal growth.

Outward Bound ensures to adhere to the highest safety standards with a worldwide benchmarking system with Outward Bound International. Regular audits ensure that there is no compromise with safety.

What’s Included?

To help the candidates develop self-discipline, resilience, and self-confidence, the program includes the following activities-
  • Physical Fitness
  • Team Dynamics & Tasks
  • Ropes Challenge Course
  • Rock Climbing
  • Rappelling
  • Jungle Trekking & Expeditions
  • Sea Kayaking & Expedition
  • Whaler Sailing Expeditions
  • Solo Camping
  • Community Service
  • First Aid Certification
  • EAR & CPR

The Benefits of Youth Challenge Courses

To help the candidates develop self-discipline, resilience, and self-confidence, the program includes the following activities-
  • Physical Fitness
  • Initiative Games
  • Team Tasks
  • Ropes Course
  • Rock Climbing
  • Confidence Building Activities
  • Rappelling
  • Jungle Trekking & Hiking
  • Kayaking
  • Solo Camping
  • Expedition

OUTCOMES

In today’s dynamic environment, youth face multiple challenges in the workplace. Learning interpersonal skills at the right age allows them to adjust to the environment. Also, physical activities leave room for individuals to analyse the cause and effect of each decision they make. In turn, they get a better understanding of self and how one can cater to effective team building.

Upon completing the Youth Challenge Course (YCC), participants aged 18-20 will emerge equipped with a myriad of valuable outcomes.

  • They will foster self-motivation through self-discipline and emotional control, bolstered by newfound resilience and tenacity, ultimately leading to heightened self-confidence.
  • The course encourages recognizing and surpassing self-imposed limitations while enhancing adaptability to navigate and manage change effectively.
  • Participants will thrive in team dynamics, showcasing improved social awareness as both members and leaders.
  • Physically, they will display courage and competence, conquering adventure-based tasks like camping, trekking, and water challenges.
  • The YCC molds individuals into well-rounded, confident, and adaptable individuals ready to embrace life's challenges.
  • Candidates will receive a certificate of completion after successfully completing the course.

Building Trust and Relationships

Trust is the foundation of any successful games, activities, and team building event. Through various other team-building activities, youth challenge courses manufacture opportunities for smaller groups of team members to rely on each other, develop mutual trust, and build stronger relationships.
This trust translates into improved teamwork and highly increased productivity.

Boosting Confidence and Motivation

Youth camp courses challenge individuals to step outside their comfort zones and face unfamiliar situations which they usually avoid in their daily lives. As team members overcome obstacles and achieve a greater degree of success together, their confidence and motivation soar.
This newfound self-confidence and assurance often carry over into the workplace for employees and results in increased job satisfaction and employee engagement. Resultantly, this leads to benefits for the company as well.

Team Building Activities in Youth
Challenge Courses

Trekking

Engaging in trekking promotes good team spirit through friendly competition and encourages teams to work together.

Height Challenges

Height Challenges like the scavenger hunt, memory walls, office trivia, and the one marshmallow challenge foster creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork skills.

Camping

Ideally, group members and teams must analyze complex scenarios, brainstorm solutions, and implement effective strategies toward a common goal.

Water Based Games

Water based games often encourage critical thinking and collaboration with team leaders.

Team Building Event

Building trust between a team member and others is fundamental to creating a cohesive and successful team.

 Trust-building exercises, fun team-building activities like blindfolded walks, non-verbal communication tasks, and games foster open communication, empathy, and stronger bonds among team members.

Physical challenges and fun activities like rope courses, rock climbing, and zip-lining are fun ways to push remote teams and individuals beyond their comfort zones.

These activities require teams to trust and support each other, boosting their entire team bond, overall cohesion, and teamwork skills.

The Impact of Team building
activity on Youth Courses

When you participate in youth virtual team-building sessions or challenge courses, they can have a profound impact on team performance.

Teams become more efficient, creative, and adaptable by improving communication, trust, problem-solving abilities, and collaboration in a few minutes.

Frequently Asked Questions

The YCC is customised explicitly for individuals aged 18-20 transitioning from secondary/high school or pre-university to the next phase of their lives. It’s a transformative experience to equip participants with essential life skills and confidence for adulthood.

The course comprises 120 hours of diverse activities such as group and solo camping, trekking, rope challenges, and water-based activities. These tasks are carefully designed to foster self-discovery, teamwork, and resilience, providing a holistic learning experience.

Safety is paramount. Outward Bound Malaysia follows a global benchmarking process with Outward Bound International. This ensures adherence to international safety standards, with audits every 2 years. This commitment guarantees a secure yet challenging learning environment, utilizing the outdoors as both a classroom and a tool for personal growth.

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