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Forge
ARC uses taster sessions of traditional outdoor activities to build team bonds and facilitate young people exploring themselves. We focus on getting them into a growth mindset: Investigating emotions and their limits within this. This is supported by the journal, a workbook, that the young people complete throughout the week with various exercises and reflective points related to their experience.
Forge is run as a cooperative competitive week: The young people are divided into teams who go into each activity attempting to score points. At the end of each day, the points from each group are added together to create a cumulative score. This results in a competition against the other groups that attend a residential with us that year. This is an analysis tool for us; why did we score well, or not, on this activity? What could we have done better? This is discussed with each group, facilitated by our team leader, and forms the basis for the chats surrounding our hidden PHSE curriculum.
