Northwest Outward Bound School teaches character development, compassion, integrity, and leadership skills. Learning can occur anywhere and everywhere. The positive outcomes our students experience β whether they are middle and high school age, college age or adults β manifest in the form of increased self-confidence, awareness and respect for the interdependence of individuals and a desire to make a positive difference in their own lives and in the lives of others. Strangers become life-long friends. Small accomplishments on a course become life-long habits. Through shared challenges, adversity, failure and success, students discover and develop new skills, confidence and passion.