Philosophy

At Up The Creek, we’re primarily guided through connection to water as a vehicle for growth fit for today.

Learning to know | Learning to do | Learning to live with | Learning to be
United Nations Educational Theory

We deliver this philosophy through the canoe as a vehicle for widening your learning.

Whether it’s a tour, educational program or liminal experience, our water-based journeys are underpinned with the goal to transform our everyday through how we access the natural world.

Up the Creek journeys can lead to:

  • Engaging with nature as a collaborator
  • Thriving and finding joy working with forces beyond our direct control
  • Reduced risk in the present - inoculate against risky behaviour in the future
  • Transformed capacity to learn for improved productivity
  • Creating lifelong connections to self, nature and others
  • Overcoming blockages to learning
  • Building authentic self-directed learning

The whole of life is coming to terms with yourself and the natural world. Why are you here? How do you fit in? What is it all about?

― David Attenborough

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