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- 1. The Adventure Paradigm- providing opportunities for risk for people with disabilities. Inclusion Conference May 29, 2015 Lisa Hughes
- 2. About me….. • Recreation Therapist • Part time faculty at Fleming College • Worked in many different settings • Junior Ranger • Camp Courageous of Iowa
- 3. Adventure Experience Paradigm • Exploration and Experimentation • Risk low, competence high • Adventure • Competence only slightly higher than risk • Peak Adventure • Competence = risk • Misadventure • Risk slightly higher than competence • Devastation and disaster • Competence is low and risk is high
- 4. Key Concepts • Adventure engages the whole person • Adventure happens in novel settings • Risks Hazards • Activities that have uncertain outcomes • Cooperative Environment • Unique problem solving • Feelings of accomplishment • Processing the experience
- 5. • Self-perception • We build this from our experiences, what we do we believe • Adventures- deemphasizes the need for language skills, more ‘lived experience’. • Self-efficacy • One’s belief they are capable of success, view themselves in a positive way, increases motivation • Important for generalizations- switching the ‘I can’t do that’ to ‘I can’ Why Adventure and Risk?
- 7. Do you think this is risky?
- 8. Do you think this is risky?
- 9. Do you think this is risky?
- 10. Do you think this is risky?
- 11. Do you think this is risky?
- 12. Are you risk aware or risk averse?
- 13. Influences on risk perception •Media •Past experience •Values •Locus of control •Relationship to person
- 14. Tracy Schmitt • Tracy was born a 4 way amputee • Bronze medalist as a Paralympian athlete in alpine [that's downhill] skiing • Paralympic Sailing Campaign for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, Brazil
- 15. You tube video
- 16. Using Metaphoric Learning • Spontaneous Participant will take the experience and apply on to their life on their own • Analogous Transference Facilitator will use debriefing and questions to help participants apply to their life • Structured Before and after the activities, Facilitator sets the scene and learning
- 17. Adventure Experience Paradigm • Exploration and Experimentation • Risk low, competence high • Adventure • Competence only slightly higher than risk • Peak Adventure • Competence = risk • Misadventure • Risk slightly higher than competence • Devastation and disaster • Competence is low and risk is high
- 18. How to provide risk • Identify hazards (setting, equipment) • Allow people to try, try and try again • Adaptions (allow person to find their own) • Skill development is a continuum • Start small • Finish BIG
- 19. Interesting Reading • Talking about practice: Adventurous play— Developing a culture of risky play (NQS PLP e- Newsletter No.58 2013) • Universal Adventure Programming: Opening Our Programs to People With Physical Disabilities (Journal of Leisurability, Volume 22 Number 2 Spring 1995)
- 20. What can you do now? • Take a look at what you are doing? • Ask! Formally (survey) or informally (conversations) • Think universal programming • Evaluate your equipment or research what’s available in your area • Offer or try ONE new thing this month
- 21. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- Eventually in management Junior Ranger- developed a comfort level with outdoors, challenges Camp Courageous- timing is everything, I was young, I hadn’t had many experiences to make me think otherwise, I hadn’t had kids yet
- 1:50 - 5:35 Easter seals Novel setting Use adventure as Skill development How do I know if I don’t try Mitigate risk- lifejacket, instructors around Heartbreaking for adults….. Watching failure, she could only help herself People around who were willing to let her try again and again….. If someone had intervened, protected her
- Revisiting the paradigm, in your current role- think about