Adventures in Global Education (AIGE) was a 6-day training course aiming to develop youth worker competencies and skills in using outdoor learning approaches to global education and critical thinking. The concept of using outdoors and adventure education was developed in response to the need for delivering global education competencies for youth workers in new and ever more interactive ways. Providing outdoor education methods and tools for youth and community workers as an approach to educating about the environment, equality and poverty emphasize the importance of understanding natural and environmental systems as both a direct, active learning experience. Interacting, and knowing how to interact with nature and the outdoors is a declining skill set. However, it is an important one which not only provides personal and societal health benefits but also contributes to cognitive development, values and principles. The objectives of this project were: 1. Equip youth workers with the knowledge and skills to address key global issues through the use of experiential outdoor education approaches 2. Examine the meaning and functions of outdoor education as a set of tools for exploring the cognitive development of critical thinking, systems thinking and problem solving 3. Explore the narrative provided by the SDGs through outdoor education methods 4. Explore the power of using outdoor education as a basis for exploring primary guiding metaphors which inform our understanding of the physical and social world around us. 5. Explore outdoors literacy and Edward Wilson’s concept of “Biophilia” – an innate affinity to the natural world - and their relation to active global citizenship