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OUR CORE
THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES

RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME

Therapeutic Modalities Include:

  1. The Role of Setting & Landscape 

  2. Experiential Outdoor & Adventure Therapy

  3. Wilderness-Integrated Therapy  

  4. Evidence-based Holistic Care

  5. Polyvagal Limbic Therapy Informed Approach

  6. Trauma-Informed Approach

  7. Attachment-Informed Approach

  8. Integrative & Restorative Therapies

The Role of Setting and Landscape

Is one of the key pillars underpinning the design of our programme. It is clinically purposeful, core modality in itself  -not just beautiful.

Clients Experience :

  • Reduced cognitive and sensory overload.​

  • ​Privacy, silence & rhythm as therapeutic interventions.

​Experiential Outdoor and Adventure

Wilderness-based Therapy

1.  Evidence-Based Rationale

  • Focus on Learning by Doing with Reflection

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  • In experiential theory it is believed that learning is greater in unfamiliar situations. ​

  • Using adventure to reach therapy goals, such as:

  • Increased self-awareness, which contributes to a better understanding of how one's own behaviour affects outcomes.

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  • Higher accountability, to both self and to others.

 

  • Healthier coping skills, which leads to better self control.​

  • More positive beliefs about self and less negative ones.

 

  • Better creative problem solving, communication, and cooperation strategies.

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  • ​Realistic understanding of one's own strengths, weaknesses, self-imposed limitations, which leads to better decision making.

  • ​​​Approach recovery as a spiritual journey:

  • Experiential therapy can be a transformative and/or transcendent experience.

2.  Learning By Doing - With Reflection

  • ​​Each client is supported and guided through an individually curated programme.​

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  • Expertly designed educational and experiential components.​​

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  • Process-orientated - at your own pace.

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  • ​​Facilitated by expert international clinicians, holistic therapists and wilderness guides (some of the finest in Africa).

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  • Contained within a safe and structured framework.

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  • Includes a Wilderness Trail.

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3.  A Unique Opportunity for Personal Growth

  • A deeply personal and immersive experience and is potentially transformative. 

  • Discover new and expansive ways of knowing self and the world - specifically as inter-connected to the larger web of life, enhancing personal sense of belonging.​​

  • Connect to sacred, wonder and awe.

  • Restore purpose and meaning.

  • Discover new strengths and gain insight.

  • Re-evaluate personal goals and values.

4.  Therapies Include:

  • ​Bird watching

  • Mindfulness guided bush walk

  • A Wilderness Trail

  • Star gazing

  • Visiting sacred sites

  • ​Game counting on foot

  • Local community work

  • Kayaking / Rafting

  • ​Cold river & lake plunges 

  • Tree planting ceremony

  • Therapeutic locations - sacred sites

  • ​Game counting on foot​

5.  Clinical Efficacy 

We ensure types of practice are effective and in full alignment with the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and Outdoor Mental Health Interventions Model's ethical framework and codes of conduct.

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Evidence-based Holistic Care

Integrative and Restorative

Attachment-Informed Therapies

  • Integrates the best available scientific evidence with clinical expertise and patient values to address the whole person – body, mind, and spirit.

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  • Tailor treatment to individual client needs. 

 

  • Moves beyond treating isolated symptoms to consider the interconnectedness of physical, social, spiritual, and psychological well-being.

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Therapies Include:

  • 12-Step Work

  • ACT

  • Attachment Therapy

  • Art Therapy

  • Breath Work

  • CBT

  • DBT

  • Drumming Therapy

  • Eco-Psyhotherapy​​

  • EMDR

  • ​Energy Psychotherapy

  • Equine-Assisted Therapy

  • Experiential Therapy

  • Journaling Therapy

  • Massage Therapy

  • Meditation

  • Mindfulness

  • Movement Therapy

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Polyvagal Exercises​​

  • Psychedelic Micro-Dosing

  • Psycho-Education

  • Relaxation

  • Resourcing & Resilience Building

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • Spiritual Direction

  • Story Telling

  • Systemic Therapy

  • Trataka

  • Yoga Therapy

Polyvagal Limbic

Therapy-Informed Approach

  • Promoting physiological thriving

Trauma-Informed Approach

  • Addressing root causes and trauma

  • Guide you through healing from past traumas

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