Larry Childs
Trainer & Consultant
Larry has worked in the fields of Adventure and Experiential Education for over 30 years. He has been with Project Adventure since 2006 as a Senior Trainer and Consultant supporting PA methods and programs within public and independent schools/districts, universities, non-profit organizations and businesses. His areas of specialization include adaptations for classrooms and physical education, building teams and organizational/school culture, and consulting on strategies to advance social emotional competencies. He also supports PA global efforts, having delivered trainings on five continents and consulting on several national level initiatives. Before PA, Larry was a program director at Outward Bound managing initiatives with the Boston Public Schools. Earlier he worked in Humanitarian Aid and Development building local institutions, participatory community development, and non-formal education in Burkina Faso and in Mali where he is a co-founder of Tassaght, currently Mali’s largest national NGO. He holds a MS in International Administration from the School for International Training/World Learning and a BA from Middlebury College. His languages include professional proficiency in French and limited working proficiency in Spanish and German. He has also studied Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic and taught school at the Ecole D'Humanite in Switzerland. Living today in Cambridge, MA with his wife Alice, Larry has enjoyed testing new adventure activities on his two sons (who have since fled the nest), serving on a local environmental organization board, writing publicly on controversial social issues, and disappearing when he can into the wilderness. Open water swimming, especially the cold-water immersion approach, has become a recent passion.