"Connection before content. Before anyone tries to teach anything to someone, actually gives them content, we should be focusing on the way that we connect with each other."

- Phil Brown

Phil Brown of High 5 Adventure Learning Center and host of the Vertical Playpen podcast joins me this week to talk about adventure learning, experiential learning, and using the challenge course as a tool for teaching SEL. We talk about how you can use principles of the High 5 Adventure Learning Center, the results of studies on SEL, and the learning during COVID-19.

Find out more at high5adventure.org

01:25 - How High 5 Adventure brings experiential learning into the classroom

04:55 - Focusing on connection, empowerment, and leadership

07:15 - What the challenge course is for (and what it's not for)

11:15 - How is High 5 being used in schools?

15:00 - The result of SEL on disciplinary action in schools

18:00 - Community benefits from SEL

20:05 - Teaching experiential learning via virtual interactions

23:30 - Is physical connection a requirement of meaningful relationships?