Adventure therapy is not doing something fun outdoors with others

Adventure therapy is with others, doing something absorbing, preferably outdoors. Two minds and bodies achieving one task

This should be like a warm hug, attuning with the hurt child inside the person seeking our help

The practitioner models the ‘good enough’ parent, who is needed for adequate development.

Good enough parents offer love and care, while weaving minds and bodies in a joint task.

We combine rather than teach. It is reciprocal, and with that we offer the opposite of the experiences that harmed the child. A lived experience of what should have happened and one they will now know to expect

A nod to Paulo Freire, John Bowlby, and the authors of the fascinating article in the replies