From Wikipedia: Wilderness therapy is a subset of adventure-based therapy. It is the use of wilderness expeditions for the purpose of therapeutic intervention. There are a range of different types of wilderness therapy programs, with a range of models and approaches. Some grow out of a survival approach and some out of an Outward Bound approach. Their aim is guiding participants toward self-reliance and self-respect.The pioneers in the field of wilderness therapy were Larry D. Olsen and Ezekiel C. Sanchez at Brigham Young University; Nelson Chase, Steven Bacon, and others at the Colorado Outward Bound School; Rocky Kimball at Santa Fe Mountain Center and many others.
There is much more gobbliegook than that on the site. Sounds like they are aiming for corporations to pay for their metrosexual office workers to have a team-building exercise. "Uoooh, Sven. Is that real deer do-do? That is so groooos. When do we get to hold hands around the fire and sing "We are the World?"
I also know of a degree at my alma mater that one of my daughter's friends is getting called "Event Planning." I told her that it sounded like something that you spent a weekend at a Holiday Inn conference center to learn how to do.
Event planning? Weddings,funerals,Bar/Bat Mitzvahs,sit-ins,terrorist attacks,marathons,and birthdays are all events. Pretty funny.
Thanks for the info on Wilderness Therapy. I hope all the grads get lots self-reliance and self-respect.It my day we got it by staying out of trouble,getting an education or trade,and supporting ourselves. Seemed much simpler then.