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Programme and timetable
Below is a list of workshop and papers being presented at the conference. Detailed abstracts will be provided to all conference delegates. This list maybe updated with further titles added and current titles updated. Also, attached is a programme timetable of all presentations. This is a working copy so some presentation times are subject to change.
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Nature as research variable: methodology and meaning
Nevin J Harper & Tim Black, (Canada)
Taking counselling and psychotherapy outside: destruction or enrichment of the therapeutic frame?
Hayley Marshall & Martin Jordan (England, UK)
Exploring the leadership of adventure therapy programmes in New Zealand through appreciative inquiry
Chris Jansen (New Zealand)
Preventing family and educational disconnection through wilderness-based therapy targeting youth at risk
Sandy Allen-Craig (Australia)
Wilderness / Adventure therapy and the Duke of Edinburgh Award
Andy Weller (England, UK)
The yin yang of a wilderness therapy experience
Val Nicholls (Australia)
Holding the space wilderness therapy with looked after young people
Simone Silver Path, Catherine Lennox, & Sharon Wills
(England, UK)
Operation newstart / the power of partnerships
Christopher Collins (Australia)
The power of storytelling in adventure therapy
Tonia Gray & Kaz Stuart (Australia & UK)
Aboriginal outdoor recreation program – connection with country and family
Peter Rae (Australia)
Self in relation to nature: what is ecotherapy?
Martin Jordan (England, UK)
Taking therapy outside – understanding shifts in counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice in outdoor settings
Martin Jordan (England, UK)
Social survival: the relation-competence-therapy for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) in an outdoor-activity setting
Paul Timmers & Arja den Hertog (Netherlands)
Building bridges: cross-cultural perspectives on using adventure to enhance the therapeutic relationship
Christine Norton & Chih-Mou Hsieh (USA)
Relationality in autism, art and nature
Kevin Burrows (England, UK)
The evolving journey of narrative practice: narrative therapy, bush adventure therapy and the typo station experience
Paul Stoiz & Andy Umbers (Australia)
Experiential therapy with inpatients in child and adolescent psychiatry – special settings, indications, practicability, evaluation, research
Ulrich Rüth & Florian Eckstein (Germany)
Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary: reflections on working in the outdoors with adults with severe mental health problems
David Stacey (England, UK)
Resolving ambivalence, maximizing strengths and strengthening alternative stories – use of experiential-based motivational interviewing, solution-focused and narrative family therapy
Bonnie Dyck (Canada)
The potential impact of contact-orientated, nature-based experiences on individuals suffering from schizophrenia and psychosis
Rab Erskine (Scotland, UK)
A therapeutic approach for residential campsites working with mental health groups
Liz Leorke, Sue Cotton (Australia)
Conversations with owls and eagles, rocks and trees, caves and creeks. Reciprocity, synchronicity and immediacy in our relationship with the bush (wild outdoor environments)
Nick Hall (Australia)
Analysis of a marine wilderness therapy for recovering addicts
Richard Lannowe Hall & Sue Parker Hall (England, UK)
Can participation in outdoor programs positively affect the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (typically, hyperactivity, impulsiveness and in attention)?
Avril Jane Leonard (England, UK)
Wilderness therapy with traditional and natural building
Mark McKenna (England, UK)
The impact of short-term adventure experiences on the body image of women over forty
Denise Mitten, Sara Larson Woodruff (USA)
The healing power of nature
Denise Mitten (USA)
Developing aboriginal youth mental wellness through outdoor adventure
Stephen Ritchie, Nancy Young, Robert Schinke, Mary Jo Wabano, Duke Peltier, Brenda Restoule, Keith Russell (Canada)
Stress, adventure and challenge: what’s the relationship and what do I manage?
Denise Mitten (USA)
Engaging youth in treatment: adventure therapy practices in Switzerland and the United States
Christophe Grüring (Switzerland)
Examining narratives of loss, identity (re)construction and family functioning following acquired brain injury: involvement in a multi-family therapeutic adventure program
David Segal & Nevin Harper (Canada)
An integral systems theory approach to adventure therapy
David Segal & Duncan Taylor (Canada)
To climb a hill: the art and science of adventure therapy practice
Anita Pryor (Australia)
Promoting wellbeing in adolescence using therapeutic adventure: development of a best practice model
Ian Williams, Nicholas Allen, Lyndal Bond, & Craig Olsson (Australia)
Neuropsychological evolutions and its relevance for adventure therapy
Guy Lorent (Belgium)
Counselling and psychotherapy outdoors – grounding our practice in our theoretical roots
Selena Chandler (England, UK)
Experiences of depression and the landscapes of coping
Selena Chandler (England, UK)
Development of preferred practices for adventure therapy in the United States
Kim Sacksteder (USA)
The specifics of wilderness therapy: a blend of action and nature. Why does it work?
Luk Peeters (Belgium)
ChANGeS: a new framework for maximising emotional health and wellbeing through therapeutic adventure
Ian Williams (Australia)
Providing support and learning to develop the inner awareness and self-esteem necessary for adolescents to make a healthy transition from childhood to adulthood
Sara Beauregard (England, UK)
Adventure-therapy and activity-based group work: experientially exploring the full range of experiential practice
Christian M Itin (USA)
Using adventure in professional counselling psychology training in South Africa
Lourens Human (South Africa)
The interlay between ‘life’ and ‘death’ in technical cave diving. A narrative from Bushman’s Hole
Lourens Human (South Africa)
Work out, nature in: coping with unemployment from an ecological perspective
Isabel Marcano (Portugal)
What is the potential of Norwegian outdoor life tradition (Friluftsliv) in the maintenance phase (III phase) of cardiac rehabilitation?
Gunnar Gunnarsson (Norway)
Adventure programming with mixed populations
Emmannuel V Hernani (Phillippines)
Blurring the boundaries in adventure therapy practice
Cathryn Carpenter, Paul Stolz (Australia)
Time gentlepeople please! Boundaries in the outdoors
Chris Loynes (England, UK)
Walking as ecotherapy: environmental appraisal and attentional focus during bushwalk
Stewart Dickinson (Australia)
Ecopsychology and modern initiatory rites of passage
Roger Duncan (England, UK)
Introducing adventure therapy to tertiary outdoor education students
Scott Polley (Australia)
Bush adventure therapy at TOE: oh he places you will go!
Fiona Cameron (Australia)
A healing space in nature for suicide-bereaved adolescents
Fiona Cameron (Australia)
Should making a serious mistake be a criminal act? An examination of some possible legal consequences of gross negligence in outdoor leadership and implications for adventure therapy
Peter Kellett (Australia)
Reflexive art – processes in the natural environment
Tarquam McKenna, Cathryn Carpenter (Australia)
Earth tales – dramatherapy in nature
Mel Bates, Rachel Bennington (Australia)
The cure of the lemon tree: nature as inspiration for empowering patients with post trauma
Anat Raphael (Israel)
Wilderness therapy and youth at risk – coucomes and feedback from long term intervention in the UK with particular focus on the TurnAround 2007 programme
Jo Roberts & Jo Barton (England, UK)
Connecting to the wild through our bodies: embodiment and the other-than-human
Nick Totton (England, UK)
Relational ethics in outdoor therapy
Roger Casemore (BACP UK)
East step is a victory. Uprooting as an alternative for social exclusion of minor delinquent and seriously disadvantaged youngsters
Sophie Boddez & Dimitri Dumortier (Belgium)
The thin line between punishment and planned, effective interventions through adventure therapy
Lesley Hill (Germany)
Spiritual and pastoral care in counselling and psychotherapy: what's it got to do with adventure therapy?
John Eatock (BACP, UK)
Branching out – evaluation of greenspace on referral for mental health service users
Kirsty Catherine & Hugh McNish (Scotland, UK)