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Our wilderness therapy program is a challenging
outdoor, mountain based experience designed to help promote
self-discovery, enhance self-esteem, and improve communication
skills. Participants will spend 21 days camping in the back
country of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains and are provided
with a regimented daily structure of highly motivational activities
and personal challenges which require teamwork, decision-making,
and communication. Participants are challenged with issues
of accountability, honesty, integrity, trust, responsibility,
anger management and self-confidence. Emotional growth and
personal development are explored and re-evaluated in daily
group discussions and deepened via spontaneous teaching moments.
Backpacking, mountain peak ascents, rock climbing,
high and low ropes courses, and white water rafting are to
just some of the activities utilized to help participants
learn to face new challenges. By utilizing group initiatives,
“challenge activities,” and outdoor education
methods Wilderness Opportunities’ 21 Day Wilderness
Therapy Program participants are faced with many situations
they must rise to overcome.
This program offers a unique and proven approach
to helping young people deal with issues that are leading
to trouble with school, drug use, authority figures, lack
of self-esteem and low social skills.
Therapeutic Counseling Component
Wilderness Opportunities’ PhD level
mental health professional and program staff work first hand
with participants, family, and family therapists to develop
and implement an individualized treatment plan. During intake
students are again interviewed to discuss the goals of the
program. Throughout the course of the program our mental health
professional goes into the field to work with individuals,
the group, and the staff to continue successful implementation
of student treatment plans. Upon program completion each participant
will receive a post-course evaluation which will contain information
regarding: how the student performed; assessment of his/her
areas of strength and weakness; communication strategies that
worked well with the student; and Wilderness Opportunities’
staff recommendations for the future.
For youth whose “reality” has always
appeared hopelessly complex and perhaps out of control, the
isolation and simplicity of the outdoors can help bring her/him
back to basics and into a more manageable world. This is not
a “fix it” program. The purpose is to provide
families and youth with a chance to explore new opportunities
and learning that will help foster their future healthy personal
growth and development.
For more information
please call or email us.
info@wildernessopp.com
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