Youth Leadership: An often repeated, often underestimated, term that describes what we at Rippleffect hope to instill and nurture in our students.

Our guides and educators inspire our students to conduct themselves with respect for the individual while respecting one's immediate and global environment and our shared natural resources. Through this process, we encourage our students to discover the wilderness within while exploring the wilderness of the Gulf of Maine. We remind our students through initiatives, group work, kayaking, and service projects to always use the knowledge you already have, but to keep in mind that,

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind, there are few. That is the real secret […], always be a beginner."
-Shunryu Suzuki