Wilderness Adventure Therapy

Wilderness Adventure Therapy is…

a therapeutic approach to enhance and maintain mental, physical and social health, which commonly implements natural environments into the practice.

At Turntable, we see nature as something that includes our humanity... and as created connects with other parts of nature, we can become healed and centered... grounded, hydrated and oxygenated in ways that only nature can do.

The world is a big place! Oftentimes, busy and noisy. When we pursue the quiet, or embrace the vastness of creation.. even play and explore the wilderness.. we can learn and discover new things about ourselves too.

Wilderness Adventure Therapy is applied around the globe, which gives rise to a great variety of practices and makes it challenging to define adventure therapy.

The connection to mental health and anxiety being attended to in restorative ways through nature is significant, which is why we seek to offer this as part of our programming to our youth and young adults. The opportunity to engage with nature enables a sense of adventure to rise up and teach us things about ourselves that we may never have otherwise realized.

We are growing in this space, with hopes to develop various ways of youth experiencing the outdoors with adventure based therapy. We very much value our current partnership with Headwaters Kayaking to provide outdoor experiences on the water.