This will be a highly interactive workshop. Some learning theory will be discussed, but this is mostly an opportunity to fill your group facilitator toolbox with games and activities designed to promote connection and belonging with your students, clients, or staff. We'll also be giving away some facilitation tools.
Requests for refunds must be made through email to Fred@RelateAbility.org a minimum of 5 business days before the training date. Refunds will be issued through check or credit card reimbursement. Participants registering using the group registration rate may be entitled to a reimbursement amount lower than the amount paid if the number of participants in the group falls below two registrants.
RelateAbility’s Adventure Into Wellness Series provides professional development for counselors, educators, and group facilitators. Each adventure therapy training session is designed to educate about experiential learning while creating opportunities for the occupational, environmental, intellectual, and social wellness of participants.
RelateAbility also aspires to align each training session with the Association for Experiential Education's core elements of adventure therapy training. Therefore, participants usually earn a certificate of completion to submit for documentation of training hours required towards the Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist or Certified Therapeutic Adventure Specialist credential.
From our experience, colleagues who join training sessions together often leave feeling especially motivated to continue implementing adventure-based programming at their own sites. For this reason, RelateAbility often offers significant group rate discounts for Adventure Into Wellness training sessions.
Counselors, educators, and group facilitators are immersed in experiential learning activities with teammates, then plan to critically apply these activities with their own clients and students. We use a group facilitation framework that can be used for classroom, gymnasium, outdoor, or in-office settings.
Sessions are tailored to meet your specific needs and interests for bringing experiential learning and adventure therapy to life in your practice or in your classroom. Consultation time can be used for supervision of direct practice hours for certification as an Adventure Therapist or Adventure Specialist through AEE.
The following training topics align with certification standards RelateAbility owner, Fred Borroel, helped develop for the Association for Experiential Education in collaboration with other leaders in the field of Adventure Therapy.
●Establishing group norms and building cohesion
●Awareness of trauma responses in Adventure Programming
●Adapting interventions to meet group needs
●Generalizing adventure experiences to everyday life.
●Matching and facilitating activities towards transfer of skills
●History and foundations of Adventure programming
●Connecting interventions with clinical/learning theories
●Key components of Adventure interventions
●Adventure Therapy Models
●Activities and techniques used in Adventure programming
●Selecting culturally relevant Adventure experiences
●Selecting and conducting Adventure interventions that are appropriate and individualized to the client/student
For the last several years, I've served as a volunteer leader for the Association for Experiential Education's Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group. One of the most significant projects over that time has been the development of the Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist (CCAT) credential. For mental health practitioners interested in learning more about bringing experiential learning and adventure therapy to your clients and students, please see the information below. As the Chair of AEE's Certification Council, I'd be glad to answer your questions about the certification. And if you're interested in professional development and training in this area, I can help with that too.
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