‘Cooking up a good practitioner’: What are the necessary ingredients of International Adventure Therapy training and development?

Jeffery, H, Smith, A, Richards, K, Borroel, FA, Norton, C, Pryor, A, Knowles, B and Rose, A (2023) ‘Cooking up a good practitioner’: What are the necessary ingredients of International Adventure Therapy training and development? International Journal of Adventure Therapy ( (Special Edition 9IATC/3GATE), 4 (2023). pp. 1-17. ISSN 2700-7375

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Abstract

The training and development of international adventure therapy practitioners has had somewhat limited critical examination from cross cultural perspectives. While individuals and organizations have collaborated internationally for decades, to the authors’ knowledge, there has not yet been a concerted effort to examine core training for wide international scope, nor co-develop core cross-cultural training parameters. Given this backdrop and gap, directly before the 8IATC in Sydney (Australia) in 2018, a group of 24 AT practitioners from 11 nations gathered for three days in a ‘Cave’ to explore international perspectives on the necessary ingredients of training and development of adventure therapy practitioners. This paper explores the overarching outcomes of this ‘Cave Think Tank’, along with feedback from participants of a workshop at the 9IATC in Kristiansand, Norway in 2022 and reflections afterwards, to consider the question in the title of this paper. The five key themes arising in the ‘Cave Think Tank’ and explored in the workshop include: 1) Values (shared and held by adventure therapy practitioners), 2) Ways of being (as an adventure therapy practitioner), 3) Foundational knowledges (theories and bodies of knowledge that inform adventure therapy practice), 4) Skills (required for safe ‘good enough’ adventure therapy practice), and 5) Interventions (commonly used strategies or micro-interventions that are appropriate in adventure therapy practice). These core ingredients, which were agreed as important across diverse cultural contexts, demonstrates the value and benefits of cross-cultural collaboration, and will no doubt continue to be enhanced by dialogue and collaboration.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Adventure Therapy; Cross Cultural Education; Culture; International Curriculum; Nature Based Interventions
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	ZIEL GmbH, Augsburg
Date of acceptance:	1 June 2023
Date of first compliant Open Access:	19 May 2025
Date Deposited:	19 May 2025 09:33
Last Modified:	19 May 2025 15:30
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26170

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