Friday Night Keynote: Lee Gillis, PhD. 

Are we moving forward, backward, standing still or just going around in circles? 

Friday Plenary Speaker: Tony Alvarez

What does it mean in other countries where someone is doing/ offering adventure therapy?

Saturday Night Keynote: Maurie Lung, LMHC, LMFT

Exploring other colors in our box of crayons: Simple ways to integrate theory and research into everyday practice.

We are inviting workshop proposals with the potential to move the practice of adventure therapy forward--- “Toward the Next Horizon.”  Camp Mary Orton offers state of the art adventure resources, as well as a beautiful natural setting on over 160 acres of property just inside the Columbus city limits.  In addition to the climbing walls and high challenge courses (both indoors and outdoors), there are hiking trails and creeks, as well as the standard constructed initiatives.  The camp’s therapeutic arm (The Wilderness Bond Program) will be coordinating the use of live volunteers in select workshops.  Our hope is that several prospective presenters will take the challenge of proposing a workshop that demonstrates issues in adventure therapy using this exciting resource.  We also hope that prospective presenters will utilize the outdoors, and access the various tools utilized in adventure therapy available at the camp.

It is our intent to provide a diversity of workshops during each of our six time slots.  During each time slot, we hope to offer at least 4 workshops that are directly practice oriented with the remaining three sessions awarded to the proposals in the other thematic strands that apply most directly with what practitioners are encountering on a regular basis.

Request for Workshop Proposals 

October 27-28, 2009
Hilton Bonaventure
Montreal, Canada