Experiential Adventure-Based Excursions are designed to give opportunities for individuals and groups to have profound transformative experiences through a format that reflects the myth of the Hero’s Journey.
The basic premise of the Hero’s Journey is that the hero embarks on an adventure by stepping into the unknown, engages in challenges, meets influential mentors, confronts their shadow, discovers a boon (something of great importance) and then returns home. Through this process, the hero is fundamentally changed – they have gone through a personal identity transformation. The Hero’s Journey tells the archetypal story of humans psychological and spiritual development and rites of passage.
Therefore, the Excursions that I am providing will honor this process and are designed to help individuals and groups engage intentionally in their own rites of passage, or life transition.
Each Excursion is created by giving immersive experiences in three different areas…
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Immersion in nature has tremendous benefits on improving our body's biology through enhancing our nervous and immune systems.
Equally important, nature immersive experiences can illuminate the spirit of our own nature, giving rise to deeper facts about ourselves - like love, beauty and creativity. Our excursions are centered around providing opportunities for you to reconnect and reestablish a relationship with nature. Through our experiential activities, you will also learn about your inherent interconnectedness with the biodiversity around you.
Nature also provides the opportunity for enhanced self-reflection, which we know to be a very important tool to learn about oneself and discover what is meaningful, important and find the barriers that are preventing one to live more fully and greater purpose.
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Immersion in another culture gives the chance to experience other worldviews, to understand how others see, feel and think about the world.
By communing with others, we can then expand our own worldviews, which helps us be more open, flexible and adaptable to differences, which is a marker of healthy psychological functioning
Experiencing other cultures has the power to remind you what is important in your own life, and what you take for granted, as well as other limiting beliefs about yourself and the world around you.
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Adventure activities promote healthy identity development, self-efficacy, and a growth mindset.
We are creative beings. Our very life force energies are creative expressions, both in embodied and imaginative forms. But creativity is not exclusive to creating tangible things like art or expression. Creativity is found in play and is the expression of imagination and embodiment in the world. Recreation (re-creation) is the act of capturing the spirit of play.
Adventure Activities allow for “dosing” to take place. Dosing is an integral developmental process in which individuals (seen mostly in children) place themselves in risky and dangerous situations to test themselves and the world. Through dosing, we learn to take risks, manage emotions, use our bodies, problem solve and improve interpersonal skills.
To get details for upcoming excursions, please check out Apraxis Center.