Adventure to Thrive
Details:
12:00 – 12:50 pm
6th of December
Room: Outside
Kylie Agnew
Adventure to Thrive is an 8-week experiential, trauma responsive, resilience building program designed to assist children to foster constructive relationships and learn skills to regulate themselves in the moment which is linked to the Australian Curriculum. It invites children, young people and their school community to learn about what makes us human and how, we have needed each other to survive and thrive. The following outlines the key elements of the program:
• The program uses the analogy of an adventure for children and young people to connect to and embeds learning through this narrative. Native animals are uses as symbols for the nervous system states and going on bush adventures provides opportunities for children to practice what they have learned in the moment.
Session participants will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the co-design of the Adventure to Thrive programs with children and young people, art and play therapists, outdoor educators, teachers, early childhood workers, youth workers, psychologists and social workers. We will share some of the incredible outcomes that have been achieved through the program to date and hear the voices of those who have engaged in the program; including children, young people and adult support staff. Most importantly session participants will have the opportunity to engage in some of the experientials, have fun and learn about the key constructs that underpin the program.
About the Presenter
Kylie is a psychologist equally comfortable working in the therapy room or using the outdoors as a therapy space. Kylie is passionate about growing a person’s resources to achieve therapeutic outcomes as well as progressing the utility of adventure therapy in responding to the wellbeing needs of children, young people, and adults. Kylie has previously worked as a Safari Leader in East Africa, an Outdoor Ed Teacher, and with charity, Operation Flinders Foundation, before she became a psychologist.
