Our mission is to provide unique, challenging, and adventurous experiential learning programs specifically designed for individuals and groups to accomplish personal and team goals, promote character development, while learning through reflection

FOUR ARROWS MISSION...

... is to provide unique, challenging, and adventurous experiential learning programs specifically designed for individuals and groups to accomplish personal and team goals, promote character development, while learning through reflection.

Four Arrows Logo - Green for Growth, Blue for Reflection, Red for Energy, and Brown for Turning Point

Green Arrow – GROWTH

The green arrows represents GROWTH, or things that are fresh and new. Each experience will be new for each participant, and therefore carries great potential for learning about one's self and others who go through the experience together.

Blue Arrow – REFLECTION

The blue arrows represents REFLECTION. No experience is complete without reflection. The process provides pathways for participants to become more self-aware as they reflect upon themselves, helping others learn more about one another, the ability for self advocacy, and the acceptance of feedback from fellow participants.

Red Arrow – ENERGY

The red arrows represents ENERGY. Energy is needed to commit one's self to the overall experience, to the learning from other participants, and to persevering through all of the tasks and reflections. This requires mental, physical, and emotional energy. The ultimate goal is to take the learning and apply it to other aspects of one's life. This worthwhile application requires the transference of energy from your experience with Four Arrows to future experiences.

Brown Arrow – TURNING POINT

The brown arrow represents a TURNING POINT, or the end of a cycle. As each outdoor or indoor experience ends, there is a turning point. It is the intention that our programs requires a variation of turning points for individuals and groups as they navigate problems to solve, learn effective communication techniques, and reflect upon how they will be different in the future.

Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion

We acknowledge the pervasive nature of systemic racism and the destructive force of prejudice rippling through our society.

As a program, we are deeply concerned with how racism as a form of structural violence currently manifests in the persecution and murder of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Additionally, structural racism has created systems of inequity, often benefiting white individuals while adversely impacting BIPOC communities and continuously placing them at a disadvantage. Racism pervades systems, structures, rules, behaviors, expectations, in person/remote/long term to daily interactions and at times masquerades as normal or neutral.

We all must do our part in condemning the terrible injustices created through racist-fueled actions and make the conscious efforts of being antiracist. We at Four Arrows believe in the concept of leading with empathy and make the intentional decision to frequently, consistently, make equitable choices for our program and the diverse community we serve. Inaction would further uphold aspects of white dominant culture and therefore we affirm our position as an anti-racist program and make commitments of action.

Four Arrows Commits To:

  • Engage in critical reflections of our own power, privilege, and positioning
  • Embrace discomfort as it leads to paths of understanding and empathy
  • Challenge oppressive systems and open lines of dialogue
  • Provide extensive and ongoing training for staff on identity, implicit biases, diversity, inclusion and anti-racist initiatives
  • Extend outreach efforts to a more diverse representation of our community
  • Ongoing audit of policies and culture to ensure a more equitable and inclusive environment to a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
  • Remain vigilant in our learning, recognizing this work does not end