Some useful links:
For Experiential Educators
/ For Adventure-Based Practitioners
/ For the Adventure Therapist / For the Corporate Adventure Trainer /
For Social Workers / About
Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy / For
the Researcher / For the Job Hunter / For
the Mac User / For Networking, Communicating,
and Staying in Contact
For Experiential Educators
- The Association for Experiential
Education (AEE) is an international membership based organization
focusing on experiential education. This organization has its
roots in adventure-based education but supports the development
of experiential education in all settings (has a good link for
signing up for the AEE internet discussion list).
- Another organization is the National
Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). This organization
focuses primarily on out of classroom experiences in academic
settings (internships, service learning, etc.).
I
have developed a new page for the Complete
Social Worker on Experiential
Practice and Social Work. This is the most complete source
of links I know of related to all forms of experiential practice.
- Michael Rehm has put together a German
page for experiential education, much of it is in German
but there is usful information and links if you are interested
in what is happening in Europe.
- Megan Coats
has put together a beginning page on experiential education,
it has some interesting ideas and some resources that might be
of use.
- The Dewey
Web at the University of Michigan is an excellent resource
related to experiential education.
Experiential Activities/Games/Initiatives
and Related Resources
- Summaries
of Co-operative Non-competitive Games by Mike Cox, a large
site and list of well organized summaries of many new games and
initiatives.
- Here is a resource of 250
games, and on the same site games
for younger children.
- This is an other
resource site with games that promote social development.
- Cooperative
games can be found here, with lots of links....a great resources.
- Here is a nice tool
box of activities.
- Here is a nice
link with some activities and links to related sites, it
is sponsored by an organization called Youthworks.
- This site has some resources
on problem solving.
- The Therapeutic
Recreation page has some good ideas and some good links.
- Roger Greenaway has put together a nice page on feedback
exercises. His page has other good resources that might be
of interest especially for the adventure-based professional.
- Duke has put their Project
Wild program manual online for adventure-based programs,
it has some good resources especially around leadership.
- Here is a Boy
Scout based site of games (this is not an endorsement of
the scouts).
- A Scottish-based
Boy Scout list of games.
- Here is a page with a nice
bibliography that will be of use to those new to the use
of adventure activities.
- The Association
for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning (ABSEL)
has a site, they have there newsletter online and some related
links.
- TEAMWORKS
has a page of exercises related to conflict resolution.
- Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers
and Pfeiffer (formally Pfeiffer & Jones or University
Associates Publishers) has the largest collection of facilitation/leadership/human
relations training material. While it is expensive, the resources
are solid.
- David Nettell has put together a bibliography with Amozon.com
of adventure
resources, this includes many new games and adventure activities.
Check
out my new Activity
Resource Page, you can add new activities to this list, thereby
creating a resource for everyone.
For Adventure-Based Practitioners
- If you are interested in adventure-based work with corporate,
professional, or community groups the Experience-
Based Training and Development Professional Group of the
AEE has set up a page that might be of interest.
- I have worked for Outward
Bound for over 11 years at both the Colorado
Outward Bound School (COBS) and the Hurricane Island Outward
Bound School (HIOBS). These links will help you learn more about
the courses offered and the history of this organization. Outward
Bound programs form the framework from which most adventure programs
are built upon.
- Project Adventure(PA) is
another good resource for those interested in developing their
skills in this area. PA builds ropes courses, provides training,
and runs programs. They also publish a number of resource books.
- National Outdoor Leadership
School (NOLS) is the other major adventure organization in
the U.S. It differs from Outward Bound in its focus primarily
on leadership and skill development, with less concern for the
development of the person.
- The Outdoor Network
is an excellent resource for those wanting general information
on a range of topics related to wilderness, outdoor, adventure,
and challenge-based education.
- Rick Curtis has put together a good resource of outdoor organizations
with a presence on the web, another of Rick's pages is Outdoor
Action Guide to Outdoor Resources on the Web, and finally
he has put together a career guide The
Outdoor/Environmental Careers Guide.
- The GORP page has many
many links that will be of interest to the adventure education
professional.
- Victorian
Outdoor Education Association is an Australian organization
of adventure educators.
- The Wilderness Risk Managers Committee and Association for
Experiential Education Incident
Database is a resource for and about accidents and incidents
in adventure programming.
- Simon Priest has put together a page of research
resources for those who use adventure for professional development
training.
- Horizons
- Adventure Education- Chris Loynes' organization and journal
a good resource.
- Blue
Dome - Primarily an outdoor education associations page.
- The
Outdoor Education Program at UNH is a good source of information.
- The Ropes
List is a developing source of information specifically related
to ropes courses and adventure education. There is access to
a listserv specifically about ropes coureses.
- Peräpohjola
College in Finland has an adventure program run by Steve.Bowles
- You can find more outdoor and adventure recreation links
on my personal
page
- The Challenge
Course Advisory - provides business and marketing resources
to the adventure professional
For the Adventure Therapist
- The Therapeutic
Adventure Professional Group (TAPG) page provides general
info about the professional group and all of the contact information
for the professional group
- Lee Gillis has set up a page devoted to adventure
therapy (has a good link for signing up for the adventure
therapy internet discussion group). This is also a resource page
for those in the Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group of
the AEE.
- I have two new pages for where professionals can share information
about themselves for the purposes of networking, The
Social Workers and Adventure-based Practice Page and the
Adventure
Therapy Professionals Page, find others who share common
interests, and share your info.
- Woodbury Reports is
an interesting page with information on a number of wilderness
based treatment programs. Many of these programs are adventure
therapy programs and so it might be of interest.
- The National Association
of Therapeutic Wilderness Camps is a relatively unknown organization
to me, but there page has a great deal of information on variety
of programs that do wilderness based camping and residential
treatment, also some information on employment opportunities.
- Adventure Based
Therapies Inc., is an unknown organization to me, and there
is not much on the page, but it does have a few references to
dissertations that might be of use.
- Project Nature
Connect is a blend of eco-psch and adventure therapy. There
are two articles online that might be of interest: Healing
Ourselves Through Ecopsychology and Reconnecting
with Nature.
- Adventure
Based Counseling (2-year) Diploma from Canadian University
College in Alberta. I don't know anything about this program
but it might be of interest to some.
- The
Kanawha Valley Adventure-Based Counseling Coalition (KVABCC)
is a coalition of individuals representing community agencies
in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia who focus on the mental
health and well-being of adolescents and used adventure-based
practice.
Adventure Therapy Programs
Important
Note: The inclusion of programs on this page does not constitute
any endorsement of the programs, nor does it mean that the programs
may actually practice good adventure therapy. Their inclusion
here simply means that they have advertised themselves on the
web as using adventure therapy (they came up on searches of the
web using AT or ABC).
For The Corporate Adventure Trainer
Important Note: The inclusion of programs on this
page does not constitute any endorsement of the programs, nor
does it mean that the programs may actually practice good corporate
adventure training. It simply means they came up on a search of
the web of programs advertising themselves as doing work with
corporate groups.
For Social Workers
About Ericksonian Psychotherapy
and Hypnotherapy
- The Ericksonian
Foundation is the best source of information on the work
of Milton Erickson. Their trainings and conferences are
superior. I highly recommend this organization.
- Hypnosis.com appears
to be a good resource with lots of links.
- The Counseling Zone
while not specifically about Ericksonian work, it does have a
great set of links, many of which are related to Ericksonian
psychotherapy.
- Another link with good resources is Hypnotherapy.com.
For the Researcher
Quantitative
Qualitative
For the Job Hunter
For the Mac User
For Networking, Communicating,
and Staying in Contact
Virtual Cards & Gifts
Electronic Communication Tools
Search Engines
- Metacrawler is
a great search engine because it sends your request to several
popular search engines and then removes duplicate hits.
Table of Contents
/ Contact Information / About My Work / My Resume/Vita / Some Information About Me / Some Useful Links / Sign My Guest Book / Activity Resource Page / Social
Workers Using Adventure-Based Practice / Adventure
Therapy Professionals Page / Therapeutic Adventure Professional Page
(TAPG) / HOME /