Adventure Learning

Foundational to both Waldorf education and Credo's ethos is the belief that great learning and community building happen when students are immersed in nature.

Credo offers two signature Adventure Learning trips: one in 9th grade, as students enter the community and begin building relationships, and one in 12th grade, as they prepare to leave the community and enter the world as initiated adults. Both trips are grounded in a Rites of Passage philosophy, which holds that people are more likely to develop and sustain a sense of belonging and purpose when major life moments are intentionally marked and honored.

Credo is proud to collaborate with Weaving Earth, a local organization focused on nature-based education for action at the confluence of ecological, social, and personal systems change. To learn more, please visit their website.

There is no mistaking that the transition from middle school to high school is a big step in anyone’s life. It is a time marked by significant personal growth, all while learning to navigate new terrain and new relationships. This new beginning is a time that deserves to be honored and celebrated! The transition into high school is an opportunity and a challenge that helps shape who we are, while laying the foundation for who we’re to become. 

The trip is filled with exciting, contemplative, and welcoming experiences that are designed to help get to know our classmates, ourselves, and the natural world around us. This excursion will complement and support a similar and more intensive trip for the senior class who are embarking on and preparing for their lives post high school. 

The senior trip marks the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood – a huge transition for students and families alike! We believe that giving graduating seniors the opportunity to intentionally recognize this monumental shift fosters a healthy passage into their next chapter and beyond.

The trip centers around the following values:

• to honor and celebrate the significant transition out of high school in a meaningful way.
• to offer the seniors an opportunity to celebrate together as a class.
• to offer an experience of connection with nature as the foundation of our work. 

The experience will center around honoring the transition out of high school into young adulthood, while weaving in elements of Weaving Earth’s Relational Education pedagogy, and being sure to have a great time.