The 8th International Adventure Therapy Conference – Archive Site

The 8IATC was held on Wednesday 29th August to Sunday 2nd September 2018, just South of Sydney on the New South Wales Coast, Australia.

The 8IATC celebrated past achievements and inspired future innovations by connecting or re-connecting to this inclusive, vibrant international community. In the 21 years since the inaugural conference held in Australia in 1997, the field of adventure therapy has matured significantly. Upon its return to Australian shores in 2018, delegates from within the existing community and adjacent fields joined us at ‘The Tops’ to reflect on our cultural and professional origins and re-imagine contemporary adventure therapy knowledge and expertise in the light and landscape of ancient place-based practices.

Previous International Adventure Therapy Conferences have focused on establishing coherence and quality in the international field of adventure therapy. At the 8IATC we reached outwards with a theme of ‘expanding the circles’ to build links with allied fields such as social work, youth justice, programs for and by first peoples, occupational therapy, psychotherapy and of course many more.

If you’re not familiar with adventure therapy, see about international adventure therapy practices for a brief introduction.

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Below are a number of resources and highlights from the conference including the presentations from a range of presenters and sessions. In addition to this we are keeping the conversations going on the new community.internationaladventuretherapy.org site. Join the conversation, share some resources, ask a question.

The draft book of abstracts here will be further refined and published in due course. The draft version remains available here for your interest and use.