Adventure Therapy Training
Online Courses, Virtual Cohorts and In-Person Training Programs
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Are Your Ducks in a Row? A Check Up for your AT Practice
Live Webinar: February 8, 2023 @ 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern
Taking the first steps as an adventure therapy practitioner can be exciting yet daunting. Do you have the appropriate foundation for getting started? Would you benefit from checking in about what the industry standards are for practice? In this webinar, we review the key building blocks for getting started with adventure therapy practice as we go over a getting started checklist and answer your questions about this process!
Adventure Therapy In Action
May 18-21, 2023
Early Bird Rates end April 17. This training is designed for practitioners who want to incorporate Adventure Therapy into their services. The content is entirely focused on how to do adventure therapy. Course includes a 4-day, 30 hour, in-person training located at the beautiful University of New Hampshire Brown Center in Durham, NH. The additional 10 hours of course content will be conducted virtually prior to this 4-day program. Participants will be trained in the clinical and technical skills needed to conduct accessible adventure interventions including games, initiatives, hiking, and orienteering.
featured Courses
Adventure Therapy Program development Series
Taught by Kim Sacksteder
This series of SIX courses walks you through the steps necessary to develop the Adventure Therapy program of your dreams! Learn about the behind-the-scenes practices that allow your program to provide Adventure Therapy services. You can sign up for courses individually or take as a whole series.
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Upcoming A-T PRO Webinars
These 90-minute live webinars are available for $25 each! All A-T Pro Webinars are available for A-T PRO members for free! These webinars are recorded for future viewing. By participating live, you consent to this use. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact the instructor.
Are Your Ducks In A Row? A Check Up For Your AT Practice
Live Webinar: February 8, 2023 @ 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern
Taking the first steps as an adventure therapy practitioner can be exciting yet daunting. Do you have the appropriate foundation for getting started? Would you benefit from checking in about what the industry standards are for practice? In this webinar, we review the key building blocks for getting started with adventure therapy practice as we go over a getting started checklist and answer your questions about this process!
A-T PRO Webinar Library
These 60 and 90-minute webinars are asynchronous and available for $25 each! All A-T Pro Webinars are available for A-T PRO members for free!
Five Activities to Jump Start Your Spring!
Learn five simple-to-implement activities that will help you get your AT practice going this spring! Activities can be used in creative and flexible ways to support your clients in achieving their goals. Explore this and more in this resource-rich webinar!
Next Steps: Enhancing Walk and Talk Sessions
Have you wondered how to take your walk and talk interventions to the next level? This webinar focuses on how to enhance your walk and talk sessions with clinical intention and creative approaches! We will explore the clinical application of walking and engaging in outdoor spaces.
Integrating Adventure Therapy into Trauma Treatment
This webinar explores using AT effectively when treating trauma, especially with youth. Learn to develop interventions based on our understanding of how the brain works. Review the principles of a current framework for trauma treatment (Blaustein and Kinniburgh’s ARC Model) and how adventure can be integrated within these frameworks.
Managing Crisis in Adventure Therapy: Using Practice Scenarios to Understand Emergency Response
In this training, we review basic concepts around preparedness for emergency response, accessing resources in an emergency, and components of an emergency response plan. We will analyze some case examples to illustrate emergency response in both physical and clinical emergencies. Finally, we will apply what we’ve learned by working through scenarios to practice putting ERP’s into action!
Navigating Liability Insurance for AT Practice
Many questions emerge about what types of liability insurance you need in order to provide adventure therapy. This webinar addresses the main considerations for obtaining liability insurance and will help guide you in making the right choices for your practice. Course content includes understanding types of liability insurance, roles in the insurance industry, and strategies for obtaining liability insurance.
Permitting and Land Use for Adventure Therapists
Adventure therapists often use public land in their work. Understanding the rules and expectations for operating a business on public lands can be difficult, as these rules vary for each location and for different types of businesses. This webinar explores the issues at play in obtaining permission for land use and offers strategies for approaching the process.
Intervention Choices: Matching Interventions with Clinical Intent
Adventure therapy interventions rely on using both activity and reflection to support our clients in reaching their treatment goals. We work hard to be intentional in this process, selecting and customizing interventions to be the best fit for our clients. This webinar provides a framework for selecting and customizing activities to match our clinical intent.
Frameworks for Processing Adventure Therapy Experiences
Being intentional when selecting our methods for process experiences is a fundamental skill in adventure therapy practice. Throughout adventure therapy literature, multiple frameworks are introduced to enhance our efforts to support clients in making meaning about their experiences and achieving the growth they seek through their work with us. In this webinar, we explore these frameworks and discuss strategies for using them intentionally in practice!
Walking in a Winter Wonderland: Winter Considerations For Adventure Therapists
Winter weather has many implications for adventure therapy practice. It can be a barrier to services, and it can also bring new opportunities for intervention! In this webinar, we explore a number of considerations for wintertime adventures! The will include risk management, intervention strategies, and sequencing client experiences to optimize clinical benefit.
Intervention Invention! Merging Your Creativity With Your Clinical Lens
Live Webinar: January 19, 2023 @ 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern
One of the great things about adventure therapy is the creativity and innovation we can bring into our practice. Our clinical lens inspires us to see our client’s perspective and experience and intentionally and creatively engage them in the process. This interactive webinar explores a variety of ways that we can bring these strengths into our sessions with props, stories and other metaphors.
