At Y.E.T.I. (Youth Experiential Training Institute) we use the outdoors as a tool to help students reach their full potential. We engage them with nature. We challenge them. We let them get dirty. We help them push on when they fear they cannot go any further. We provide them with a safe and supportive learning environment. We laugh with them. We teach them hard skills, like belaying a climbing partner, using an ice axe to safely self-arrest while glissading, or building a z-drag to unpin a raft. We teach them soft skills, like supporting their peers through trying times, working as a key component of a team to reach a common goal, or having empathy for the wild, natural spaces of our earth that need protecting. We let them make mistakes. We help them reflect. We let them grow.