"The point is, to live everything. Live the questions.' Rilke

Our expedition week, 'The Journey', did not receive its name by chance. 

In talking to our students since they have returned, all of them said they felt they had grown in some way. 

The kayakers who both pulled in opposite directions and tipped their raft, falling into the water, and soaking their warmer clothes told me the kinship and kindness from their community afterwards, sharing dry clothes, airing wet ones, felt a genuine sense of gratitude from an initially disappointing incident. 

The students who could not possibly believe they could even attempt the high ropes course, only to be the last one up there, swinging away and having the time of their life until being begged to come back down before dinner unlocked layers of previously unknown courage. 

And in the theatres of London, usually arts-shy individuals, for whom confident presentations of performance feel beyond them, left shows like Matilda beaming with the kind of joy that a shared experience, without phones (!), is increasingly becoming a hallmark of Gen Z. 

All of these and so many more moments capture Rilke's comment above. Sometimes certainty is restrictive; perhaps only through living the questions of how we should try to shape our lives can produce real epiphanies about the innate, and sometimes untapped capabilities we have as individuals and groups. 

The Journey continues to provide these kind of opportunities in spades, and my thanks go out to the students, teachers, and support staff who helped curate these moments for them.