Therapeutic Adventure Programming for Indoor and Small Group Applications

This is a three-day workshop designed for alternative school personnel, school counselors/social workers, teachers, clinicians, group home and residential treatment staff who do not intend to use a challenge course who wish to learn how to use this multi-faceted approach to foster adaptive functioning, healthy relationships and positive life outcomes for their participants using classroom and small group activities.  Participants will: Engage in, and assess, adventure-based activities used as a therapeutic tool to promote growth and development in small group settings; Practice and understand the importance of providing a trauma-informed, emotionally, and physically safe environment; Connect Project Adventure Cornerstone philosophies of Challenge By Choice, Full Value Contract and the Experiential Learning Cycle with therapeutic outcomes; Learn techniques and strategies used to enhance transfer of learning through the Facilitated Wave, and processing techniques used for briefing and debriefing; Explore broader perspectives of how adventure can impact people who come from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.