Climbing Out

Climbing Out empowers people who have been through a life-changing trauma, to take control of their own mindset, actions and behaviours. We do that through our fully funded 5 day mental resilience programmes, which combine outdoor activities and personal development coaching in a setting where long-term supportive friendships can be formed.

Climbing Out Introduction

What we do

The 5 day residential programmes combine outdoor activities, with mental resilience coaching, where participants can build a long term network of friendships and support. This gives participants the tools to manage themselves, helping them to deal with not just what’s happened in the past or what they’re going through right now, but also any challenges they may face in the future. This is empowering. The environment we create develops a trust and rapport with participants that allows us to challenge perspectives and mindsets that may be holding people back in life.

Climbing Out is passionate about empowering people to manage their own mental wellbeing, take responsibility for their lives moving forwards and fulfil their potential. Most importantly, we believe this gives participants the opportunity to be happy.

Who We Support

Adults aged 18 or over who have had their life derailed by a life-changing injury, illness or trauma and who want to learn tools and techniques to help them take ownership of their life.

We try to be as inclusive as possible, but there are some individuals for whom the way we work is not appropriate. These include those with conditions from birth, those with mental illness not caused by a traumatic event, and those with ‘active’ and addictive drug or alcohol use.

Our Programmes

The Climbing Out 5 Day Programmes

Climbing Out provides 5 day mental resilience programmes using outdoor activities and personal development coaching, to empower people to take control of their own mindset, actions and behaviours.

We offer a wide range of activities including climbing, kayaking, hill walking, abseiling, caving and cold water swimming. All the activities are adapted to meet the needs and capabilities of individual participants. It doesn’t matter if outdoor activities are not your thing – we use them as a vehicle for mental resilience work.

Our instructors are highly trained in mental resilience and personal development coaching as well as outdoor activities. Personal development sessions are run throughout the week to give participants the tools to accept the past, move forwards in life and deal with challenges they may face in the future.

The social element of the programmes has also proved to be incredibly important, providing the participants with the chance to socialise and build a long-term network of friendship and support.

How They Work

Climbing Out works with our team of instructors to provide a full week of challenging but achievable activities, personal development coaching and evening social events. The aim is to have fun, stretch boundaries, make friends and to enable participants to see a new way forward in life.

We offer a range of programmes in North Wales, the Peak District, Shropshire and the Lake District with varying levels of physical challenges, so everyone is challenged at an appropriate level.

The programmes combine all the benefits of outdoor activities – fun, camaraderie, friendship, teamwork, challenge, physical activity, fresh air – along with personal development, life coaching and mental resilience tools.

The programmes are fully funded and available to individuals aged 18 or over who are struggling to move forward following a mental or physical trauma.

Who falls within the charity’s objectives?

Anyone aged 18 or over who has had their life derailed by a life-changing injury, illness or trauma and wants to learn tools and techniques to strengthen their mental resilience, helping them take ownership of their life, to move forward in a new direction.

Who does not fall within the Charity’s Objectives?

We try to be as inclusive as possible, but there are some individuals for whom the way we work is not appropriate. These include:

Under 18s
Those with conditions from birth
Those with mental illness not caused by a traumatic event
Those with ‘active’ and addictive drug or alcohol use
Participants must be independently mobile, self-reliant and self-medicating. Each application is treated on an individual basis so please get in touch to find out more.