There are ample opportunities during the course to train these skills. There are also ample opportunities of developing the community spirit and the friendship. Use this as your foundation from which you can get started , and on which can fall back in times of failure - and from which you can collect new strength to try again. That you acquire practical skills. You should demand that you course also trains your practical skills.
Reality is concrete and is made up of factual things.
The more practical skills you possess, the greater your confidence will be that you can solve the problem. You will have a tool for taking action right at hand. People might feel like giving up standing in front of an apparently huge task - like a building in decay. At The Travelling Folk High School you will learn many of these practical skills. We have no employees to prepare our meals, do the cleaning, maintain our vehicles and buildings, take care of our gardens, do the laundry, print your presentation materials, repair your PC when it stops working.