Family Challenge Experience

(Fall 2010 Adventure Based Counseling Multi-family Group)

• an active approach that combines the effective practices of group therapy, family therapy and Adventure Based Counseling in a unique type of family service.
  
  
• using cooperative group games, problem-solving challenges, expressive arts activities and process discussions, family members concretely observe and experience their interactions as a whole, what their feelings, thoughts, behaviors and relationships are as well as the interrelationship between them all.
  
  
• created for families with participating children 10-15 years of age
  
  
• for families that are motivated to learn about and make improvements in their interactions
  
  
• parent/s with basic skills for managing children
  
  
• for families who voluntarily agree to be an active part of the program
  
  
• families must commit to a one 2 hour session each week for 8 consecutive weeks, AND one full weekend day between
  weeks 6 and 7

 

Girls on the Rise

(Fall 2010 Adventure Based Counseling Girls Group)

• a group that supports bringing girls together to reinforce their strengths as well as help to extend and integrate their other therapeutic work
  
  
• an Adventure Based Counseling group for teen girls wanting to learn, grow and survive adolescence.
  
  
• Girls on the Rise will incorporate hiking – beginning with shorter day-hikes, and working up to climbing a mountain peak. Hiking will be both a tool and theme of the group.
  


• an eight-week educational and therapeutic group for girls dealing with the challenges of being a teen girl who would benefit from developing their strengths and health through group therapy
  
  
• participants must be able to commit to a one and a half hour session each week for 8 consecutive weeks and one full day weekend day.

 

What is the Nurtured Heart Approach?

 

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

~Lynn Hall