Social Activities

 

Our purpose and intent

To provide a non-traditional construct in which students develop and practice an array of social and interpersonal competencies as well as recreation and leisure skills.

Our focus and process

Social activities are incorporated into the residential program. Students are invited to participate in structured, supervised activities throughout the course of the program year. Our focus is multi- dimensional in nature such that student activities serve numerous functions. Weekend activities and special weeknight events or occasions expose students to novel recreational interests while expanding social and interpersonal awareness. With these activities, students also learn to effectively manage un-structured, unplanned free time, boredom, daily stress responses and tendencie to isolate from peers and from life experience and adventure. Lengthier activities and trips are seasonal and
develop already beginning or enhanced interpersonal skills: communication, compromise, conflict resolution, boundary identification and respect, peer friendships, teamwork and team building, leadership attributes and more. An annual, typically international, trip further develops aforementioned areas as well as adaptability in other cultures while raising cultural consciousness and compassion.

In all activities, events and trips students are observed and monitored in terms of appropriateness and functionality; furnished to each advisor are related case notes.

Activities

Weekend activities
• Dinner and a movie night
• Bowling
• Football in the park
• River rafting
• Day hikes
• Film festivals
• Renaissance fairs
• Professional sporting events
• Water skiing, tubing, picnicking

Social Activities Cont

 

Weeknight special occasions and events
• Birthday celebrations and barbeques
• Movie nights
• Collegiate sporting events
• Adult night out


Lengthier activities and trips:
• Camping
• Ski trips to Colorado
• Hiking, site seeing at the Grand Canyon
• Magic Mountain

Summer program trips
• Tulum, Mexico
• Dominican Republic
• Jamaica
• Costa Rica
• Hawaii
• Italy