On Adventure Therapy And Earth Healing: Toward a sacred cosmology

Abstract

Adventure therapy aims to heal participants of mental and/or emotional imbalances, and/or of physical and/or behavioural distress. In efforts to effect individual change, the responsibility to heal ecological ills is too often overlooked. This is, in part, due to a scientistic worldview which sees personal and Earth healing as separate. Adventure therapy can and must more consciously seek to alleviate ecological suffering; it can do so by considering an alternative postmodern paradigm which explicitly acknowledges healing as spiritual practice.