Abstract

This chapter introduces the theoretical elements that underlie experiential learning and its use in the development of generic competencies with undergraduate students at Universidad Católica del Norte, based on the four basic elements of learning: thinking, observing, doing and feeling; sensitizing the training and evaluation by competences. Support is provided on the role of the teacher-psychologist in his role as facilitator of the training process. Finally, the essential "components" of outdoor training that completely involve the physical, emotional and cognitive structure -the intensity- are provided, with their development in natural spaces (outdoor), changing the usual traditional and perceptive formative contexts, temporarily suspending the automatisms and integrating the use of metaphors in each challenge that is faced and the elaboration and reflections with the help of the whole "class" group, to finally operationalize with the participants, the communicational, relational, decisional and operative processes that take place during the activity.