Adventure Therapy

Adventure Therapy

Overview

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.

Adventure Therapy

Geocaching

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.

Adventure Therapy

Letterboxing

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

Adventure Therapy

Escape Rooms

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.