Therapeutic Adventure Programming with Technical Challenge Course Skills
Therapeutic Adventure Programming is the intentional use of adventure experiences by Adventure Practitioners to encourage healthy behavioral changes that are lasting and integrated into the participants’ lives through facilitating both the adventure and processing effectively.
This five-day workshop is designed for alternative school personnel, school counselors/social workers, teachers, clinicians, group home and residential treatment staff 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 ground initiatives, low and high rope challenge course elements.
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 briefing and debriefing.
Explore broader perspectives of how adventure can impact people who come from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
Learn basic foundational technical skills for challenge course operations.
Therapeutic Adventure Programming workshops are not:
Therapy or encounter group experiences (See References for Ethical Guidelines published by the Association for Experiential Education)
Replacement for formal training in one's chosen professional discipline.
Designed to train participants as clinicians or clinical therapists.
Workshop Dates:
April 29-May 3, 2024 (at our site in Beverly, MA)
Workshop Information:
$825 per person – Includes registration, workshop manual and lunch during workshop.
Number of days: 5
Workshop hours: 8:30am-5:00pm
Beverly, MA Site Logistics with recommended lodging options can be found HERE.
Please register more than two weeks in advance to ensure the workshop will have enough participants to run as scheduled.
Workshop registration cancellation policies: Cancellations less than 2 weeks prior to a workshop start date will result in 50% refund of tuition cost. No shows without cancellation notice will forfeit all tuition cost paid,
Purchase Orders: If your school or organization will be using a Purchase Order, please email registration@pa.org to register. A copy of the Purchase Order will need to be submitted to that same email address to finalize the registration.
Are you waiting for approval to attend or can’t commit with a payment at this time? No worries, we still want to hear from you! Email registration@pa.org to be put on our waiting list.
Please email registration@pa.org or call 978-524-4555 if you have any questions.
