Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the Czech outdoor experience involving specific indigenous approaches, the concept of turistika activities and the dramaturgy method of course design. Turistika activities include games, active movement (travelling by bike, skis, canoe, or on foot), and outdoor and cultural activities (learning about nature, local history and sights, life of local people).
Turistika is often translated as 'tourism', but that begins the process of diluting something that is particularly culturally unique and specific to the Czech context and environment. The concept of risk in the dramaturgy approach is holistic in that it is inter disciplinary, considers the relationship between comfort and learning zones, and emotional, social, psychological and spiritual elements are considered equally important as physical risk in the planning process.
The concepts presented provide ideas for creative programming practice and applications to more holistic outdoor experiential courses.