Our motto, 'Walking on the Edge', is an invitation to confront the unknown - to take risks by exploring (new ideas and materials) and testing one's limits, discovering new capacities - and at the same time to balance work with play and exploration.

Our field trip to Llewellyn Glacier, during the Art and Wilderness program, is a unique opportunity to explore new challenges. For most participants, a close encounter with a glacier is a new and exciting experience - sharpened by hints of danger in a landscape of broken ice, crevasses and hidden torrents of melt water. However, 'Walking on the Edge ' does not mean taking physical risks. We encourage participants to test themselves without pushing beyond safe limits (in 16 years, no one has been injured on an Atlin Centre trip).

Hiking to Canada's largest ice field outside the Arctic Circle is a way to discover new possibilities, and by exploring them, to overcome doubts and fears. Every time we return from the ice our spirits soar. There is much dancing and cheering to celebrate a successful encounter with a new challenge.

Fear and danger are often products of the mind. By confronting them we realize that, with expert guidance and due care, we can take physical, emotional and creative risks safely.

Thus 'Walking on the Edge' can be transformational - a catalyst for creative living.