Personal development adventures

Travel with World Challenge and experience personal development adventures

Travel is one of the most challenging and exciting activities you can do in your life. Packed with learning opportunities and practical skills development, an expedition abroad will lead you on a personal development adventure.

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Personal development adventures of a lifetime

Travel can be a life altering experience for many people. The practical skills gained on a trip are obvious.  From leadership to money management, from team work to project planning – all come in handy when it comes to job and university application forms.  But practical skills are only a small part of the achievement gained through such a trip. Expeditions provide a personal development adventure that will challenge and develop students as well as teachers.

How does travel provide a personal development adventure?

Travel expands your opinions as well as your knowledge. It makes you think about things you’ve never considered before. It makes you want to know more about everything you experience along the way. It’s exhilarating, it’s absorbing and above all it provides a personal development adventure that shapes and develops who you are. As you face challenges and achieve goals you grow in confidence. As you learn more about the world in which you live, such as the environment, climate change, wildlife and different cultures, you will start to view things back home in a different light. You will start to think about your place in the world and what impact you are making.

Every part of the travel process brings with it benefits and learning experiences.  When you return home you will feel like a different person and will be able to see how far you’ve come.  While you were trekking across deserts, your friends were keeping up with their favourite soaps and playing computer games.  While you were watching the sun rise over mountain scenery as part of your personal development adventure, they were getting ready for school and setting about their usual daily lives.  Travel makes you realise that there is so much going on outside your front door.  It unlocks a world of adventure to you and the bonus of travelling young is that you’ve got the rest of your life to carry on travelling and learning.

Life is about growing and evolving. Every travel experience is unique and if you’re lucky your personal development adventure will continue way beyond your student years. 

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