Breaking Through Adventures

Breaking Through Adventures are a series of courses which explore the intimate relationship between wilderness experience and personal growth. The challenges of rafting, climbing, backpacking, canyon travel, and mountaineering provide a unique setting for testing and strengthening the human spirit. Our aim is to create opportunities in nature to gently yet directly explore and transform self-limiting behaviors and beliefs. Breaking Through Adventures is an experience of deep and meaningful community, a celebration of our interdependence with one another and the earth. This support and companionship provide the safety needed for staff and participants alike to confront the deep personal and global issues that often overwhelm us in our day-to-day lives. With the spirit of wilderness as our guide, we come away renewed emotionally, physically and spiritually with a new sense of directions for ourselves and out planet.

Are you a therapist wondering how to incorporate the natural world into your practice? Have you personally experienced the power and magic of the outdoors, yet not sure how to harness this resource to enhance your professional work? Our goal is to empower you to collaborate with the natural world to create meaningful experiences and interventions for the people with whom you work.

Visit the magical canyon country of south central Utah on this spring or autumn quest for personal vision and spiritual renewal. Backpacking, hiking, canyon explorations, ancient ruins, nature ritual and community provide the backdrop for personal solo and fasting time as we seek through reflection and dialogue the clarity, courage, and intention of the modern spiritual warrior.

A nine day outdoor retreat and experience of community and adventure learning in the mountains of southern Colorado. Camping, hiking, climbing, rafting, easy backpack, peak ascents and solo time provide a vehicle--with sharing, singing, chanting, tai chi, and ritual--for exploring issues of deep ecology, personal purpose, transformation, and planetary healing.

Explore canyons, mountains, and climbing in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona. The Fabled Superstition Mountains and other sites are the focus of these early spring trips with challenging backpacking through desert canons and moderate roped ascents of desert peaks such as the Weaver's Needle.