Adventure Therapy Intensive
Description
May 16-21, 2022: Early Bird Rate Ends April 15.
This training is designed to cover the primary core training elements needed to begin adventure therapy practice. Built around AEE’s Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist (CCAT) training structure, we’ve designed this training to meet 60 of the 75 required core training hours needed for your CCAT application. The content will span multiple aspects of AT practice: foundations, assessment, intervention, facilitation, technical skills, administration, ethics and values, monitoring, and more!
The course is centered around a 6-day, 50 hour, in-person intensive located at the beautiful Camp Mary Orton in Columbus, OH. The additional 10 hours of course content will be conducted virtually prior to this 6-day program. Participants will be trained in the clinical and technical skills needed to conduct accessible adventure interventions including games, initiatives, hiking, creeking, outdoor cooking, firebuilding, and orienteering. This course includes one night of overnight camping. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Register before April 15th to receive the Early Bird Registration rate! This training has a minimum participant number of 6 participants. The decision will be made by April 18th about whether or not the course will be held. If the course is canceled by Adventure Therapist, LCC, registrants will be refunded their full deposit.
Program Dates (all times in US Eastern)
April 15 | Early Bird Registration Deadline |
April 18 | Cancellation Date if minimum enrollment is not met |
April 18-May 16 | Complete pre-course virtual training (8 hours) Content opens April 18 |
April 25 | Orientation 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (live zoom meeting) |
May 16 | AT Intensive Day One: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
May 17 | AT Intensive Day Two: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
May 18 | AT Intensive Day Three: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
May 19 | AT Intensive Day Four: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm |
May 20 | AT Intensive Day Five: 9:00 am – 9:00 pm (Overnight Camping) |
May 21 | AT Intensive Day Six: 7:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Course Outline
- Orientation (2.0) Virtual / Live
- Overview of course and concepts
- Preparing for the AT Intensive
- Introduction to Adventure Therapy (3.0) Virtual Asynchronous
- Adventure Therapy Foundations
- Adventure Therapy Models
- Who Showed Up? Assessment and Activity Selection
- Facilitating the Adventure
- Integrating Adventure Therapy into your Practice: Next Steps
- Model for Practice: The Facilitated Wave (1.0) Virtual Asynchronous
- Overview of the Facilitated Wave Model
- Assessment in the context of adventure therapy interventions
- Matching appropriate interventions with one’s assessment
- Shaping the therapeutic environment
- Facilitating the experience
- Guiding the learning throughout the process
- Evaluating the process that has unfolded
- Adventure Therapy Risk Management and Administration (4.0) Virtual Asynchronous
- Overview of Merging Adventure and Clinical Practice
- Duty of Care, Industry Standards, Risk Management, Informed Consent
- Clinical Responsibilities (ethics, models, intentional practice, documentation)
- Adventure Responsibilities (training, safety, policy and procedure, emergency response, documentation)
- AT Intensive (50.0) In-Person / Live
- Foundations
- Guiding the Response
- Assessment
- Matching
- Shaping the Environment
- Facilitating the Experience
- Evaluation
- Technical Skills for AT Interventions
- Activity-Specific
- Cooperative Games
- Initiatives
- Spotting
- Hiking
- Creeking
- Orienteering
- Outdoor Cooking
- Campfires
- Rescue Skills
- Emergency Response Planning
- General Skills
- Client Care
- Outdoors
- Environment
- Basic Land Navigation
- Activity-Specific
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