Adventure
Clients are provided opportunities to engage in challenging activities which necessitate controlled risk-taking to overcome obstacles while exploring perceived limits and abilities. Clients are able to experience both success and failure developing confidence and resilience while illuminating personal process in context of dealing with issues such as self-esteem, trust, leadership, problem-solving, communication, and relationship. Clients are encouraged to step outside their “comfort zone” resulting in new ways of thinking, perceiving and behaving. Being immersed in an adventure activity provides natural consequence for patterns of thinking and ways of behaving, and provides a powerful environment for self-discovery. Support is given to “try-on” new ways of being, to challenge inadequate or incorrect self-perception, and to learn through the experience. Reflection is an integral part of “learning by doing” – clients are able to acknowledge, honor, and integrate their experience.
