Adventure Therapy

Adventure therapy is a type of experiential therapy that uses challenging adventure activities to aid the therapeutic healing process. Adventure therapy helps promote healthy identity development, self-efficacy, grit, and a growth mindset.  It is very helpful with older children, adolescents, and resistant clients.

• Overview

• Process Questions by Activity

• Process Questions for Different Parts of Therapy

• Mastering Your Dragons: Using RPG in Therapy

In a realm where shadows veil forgotten truths, you are called to seek the Hidden Light—fragments of strength, wisdom, and healing scattered across enchanted lands. Only by facing trials, forging artifacts, and discovering your inner spark can the light be restored.  

 

Embark on an online transformative journey with Quest of the Hidden Light, where therapeutic tasks are woven into magical quests. Each quest is designed to empower you and build resilience, creating lasting impact and personal growth.

• Quest of the Hidden Light Website

Geocaching is a type of global treasure hunt of people looking for caches, or hidden stashes of objects. Geocaching may also be described as a series of hide-and-seek games, where hiders provide online clues for seekers. Seekers use global positioning system (GPS) devices to find hidden caches.  Use processing questions to make it a therapeutic activity.

• Overview/Instructions

• Video of Geocaching

LETTERBOXING is an intriguing pastime combining navigational skills and rubber stamp artistry in a charming treasure hunt style outdoor quest (similar to geocaching).

• Overview/Instructions

• Video of Letterboxing

Escape Room games are a great way to challenge thinking outside the box to accomplish a task.  There are escape room board games, escape room puzzles, as well as online escape rooms.  These can be used in therapy by processing the frustrations and successes and applying them to real life situations.

• Escape Room Websites

  • Escape Room Puzzles

  • Free Digital Escape Rooms Links (including History related themes)

  • Secret City Trails

  • Brightful Virtual Team Building Games

• Online Free Escape Rooms

  • Spy Apprentice Digital Escape Room

  • Hogwarts Digital Escape Room

  • Escape from the Chocolate Factory

  • Escape from Camp Half-Blood

  • Oregon Trail Escape to Willamette Valley

  • JUMANJI Digital Escape Room

  • Jumanji Virtual Escape Room

  • Jumanji Escape Room

  • Pete the Cat and the Birthday Party Mystery

  • Help Pete the Cat Get His Groove Back!

  • Roald Dahl Digital Escape

  • Treasure Island Treasure Hunt

  • Escape from Wonderland Digital Escape Room

  • The Misadventure of the Missing Manuscript

  • Books Alive! Escape the Rhymes

  • Dog Man Digital Escape Room

  • Hatchet Escape Room

  • Escape Room Online Romeo & Juliet

  • The Wild Robot Breakout

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Civil War (8th grade)

  • Escape from Lyra's Oxford

  • Escape the Tomb (ages 6-11)

  • Escape the Sphinx

  • Famous Americans

• Create Your Own Virtual Escape Room!