It is an intense experience to say the least. That it definitely is not.
Shad Valley is about challenge - physical, intellectual, emotional, and social.
It is unlike any other program and it produces a very unique community of people. I didn't appreciate how much of an effect until much later. In 1999, I pestered the program director of the Calgary campus until he gave me an interview and eventually a job. T eaching at Shad has been on of the most gratifying experiences of my life. It's like attending the program knowing all the things you wish you had known in the first place.