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Motivations For Outdoor Experiences
Motivations For Outdoor Experiences
Class discussion
What is a
motivation?
● Driving force behind a person’s desire to do
something.
○ E.g. to be the first person to accomplish
something.
○ A desire to prove something.
○ To set a record.
○ To seek a feeling of independence.
Motivations
Some of the reasons why we get students to participate:
• To have a break from regular life, to escape stresses, and to relax
• To socialise with family and friends
• To seek independence or to encourage interdependence
• Appreciate natural environments
• To learn about the environment and create connections.
• To be healthy and fit.
• To learn more about themselves - leadership, possible
strengths/weaknesses,
We can break motivation
into 2 main types…
INTRINSIC: Motivations that we get from within
ourselves
• Good feeling/adrenaline rush
• Personal satisfaction – something worthwhile
• Stimulus Avoidance
• Socialisation
• Cognitive reward
You don't have to be a fanta
Competence/Mastery certain things -- to compete.
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challenging goals.- Edmund
• Feeling of community
• Personal and social
development
• Example: joining a
bushwalking club
Cognitive reward
• Learning
• Exploring
• Experiencing flow
• Adrenaline rush
Intrinsic or extrinsic?
● Competing for money
● Challenging oneself.
● Get away from it all
● Meet new people
● Adrenaline rush
● To please a coach/ parent
Flow
Being completely
involved in an activity
for its own sake. Time
flies. Every action,
moment and thought
follows inevitably from
the previous one, like
playing jaxx. Your while
being in involved and
you’re using your skills
to the utmost.
Flow
● To experience flow
someone’s level of skill
must match the level of
challenge.
○ If someone does not
have the skill for the
level of challenge
they will find the
activity difficult and
may experience
anxiety.
○ If the level of
challenge is too low
for someone’s skill
level they may
experience boredom
Someone experiencing a state of
flow:
● At one with the world
● Letting go of problems and worries
● Completely focussed
● Satisfied and engrossed in what you’re doing
Similar to mindfulness
De-Motivational factors
List 10 factors that might deter people from spending
time in the outdoors; eg. risk, previous experience, lack
of knowledge, cost, equipment..
Reflect:
● Have you ever experienced a state of FLOW?
● When and what were you doing?
● Have you experienced other levels of challenge? If
so what was it? And what were you doing?
Human responses to nature.
Positive Responses to Nature
Feeling/Response Definition
1:A feeling of the outdoors that leads a person to want to do
something or create something.
1: Inspiration
2:A feeling of excitement or happiness, particularly resulting from
2:Exhilaration an outdoor experience.
of a problem or difficulty
Present 1 Adventurer:
-Picture x 2
-Explanation of Adventure
-Motivations for adventure.
Human responses to Nature
● Aboriginal’s recoded their
responses through sand
paintings, rock art &
stories.