Adventure Challenge

Internship Year begins with an outdoor expedition!  This one or two week experience (depending on the time of year) leads you to explore your strengths and to work on your weaknesses, to push yourself to accomplish difficult tasks that you can be proud of, and to work as a team with other Dynamy peers. Sharing this experience is the best way to get to know your new peers well in a short amount of time. 

Courses typically include backpacking, rock climbing and canoeing, as well as a number of other challenges meant to help you to develop close relationships with your peers and a better understanding of your own strength. In short, you will learn to rely on yourself and your team members.

The adventure reinforces your commitment to living actively and intentionally as you dedicate yourself to the four pillars of the adventure challenge experience: self reliance, compassion, craftsmanship, and physical fitness.

The following are excerpts from recent reflection letters written by Outward Bound course guides to Dynamy interns:

"A peach is not its fuzz; never box yourself in, and keep your options open by pushing your comfort zone further out, just as you did on the day of the Rapid River portage. Watching you that day, you went from believing you could not do it to pushing out impressive carries in order to squeeze all the challenge and experience possible out of carrying the canoe. If you can take the same attitude into your internships at Dynamy, there is no way you can fail, because, as we hope you are beginning to see, the enduring lessons are often deeper and broader than the immediate experience."


"You were a leader on your Outward Bound course, mostly through what Kurt Hahn identified as the most important pillar of all - compassion. Despite your lack of experience in the woods, people in the group listened to you, and it was because you stood up for fairness, treated others with kindness, and reminded us all of what it meant to be a good traveling companion. Though leadership is a big responsibility, you can be rewarded more than the responsibility can weigh on your mind if you keep compassion in your ways at work, life in the Dynamy apartments, and beyond."