Happy New Year from Marlais Brand & Voyageur Outward Bound School

Dear Partners and Friends,

This January, we reflect with thanks on our vibrant partnerships across the Twin Cities and beyond. We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with you for high-impact challenge and adventure learning. We live our mission through you, and with you.

This month, we celebrate collaboration with Open World Learning Community and the STRIVE program. Program Coordinator, Laura Greenlee-Karp, reflects on the "slogs, plateaus, peaks and valleys" of success with honesty, compassion, and humor:

"In theory, launch of the new program would be easy: bring the group of guys together, tell them how amazing they are, go snowshoeing, change lives, succeed. But that isn't quite how transformation works, and that isn't quite how life works either..."