Testing the null hypothesis that there would be no differences in self reports on a sentence completion questionnaire (10 items) re: understanding of self and others between 39 students who had participated in Outward Bound (OB) and a matched group of 39 non-participants, 78 Woodward High School (Toledo, Ohio) male and female, junior and senior students were surveyed. Literature in the counseling field was compared with that of OB for purposes of demonstrating the compatibility of OB and counseling objectives in the OB experiential learning situation. Results indicated: guidance counseling and OB objectives were quite similar; counselors have had difficulty fulfilling their objectives in the traditional school setting; the OB program is structured so as to foster fulfillment of counseling objectives; OB student participants were more positively aware of self and more confident in decision making and social interactions than non-participants; students working with guidance counselors in a program based on OB would become more aware of self and others than those participating in a similarly structured program without the presence of guidance counselors; high school guidance counselors working in a program promoting OB concepts would more likely fulfill their true counseling roles and foster the counseling concepts their profession most desires to promote. (JC)