There’s been such a buzz about adventure therapy–for good reason! The combination of therapy and adventure is the perfect dynamic duo for promoting life skills
Pure Life Adventure’s Therapeutic Gap Year offers a holistic, integrated approach to the concept of a gap year, and if your child is struggling to find their footing as an adult, it could be the solution you need.
What if you could take the benefits of backpacking and double or even triple those benefits? At Pure Life Adventure, we take backpacking benefits seriously! Find out how backpacking in the rainforest can support the development of your young adult!
Confidence can suffer during the teen and young adult years. Adventure therapy can offer a unique, fun, and exciting way to gain confidence. Our program at Pure Life Adventure is designed to offer balanced exposure to therapy, the culture of Costa Rica, and adventure, all culminating in a confidence-boosting experience.
Teenagers face increasing social and academic pressures in an ever-increasing competitive and technologically advanced world. Healthy coping strategies, parent education, and professional help can help your child navigate these challenges successfully.
With resources in spades, it’s difficult to understand why affluent kids often struggle in school. But along with wealth comes high pressure that often has a debilitating effect on the motivation, mental health, and the academic success of today’s youth.
Screen time—and the rate at which it has permeated childhood—has been a hotly debated topic during the last decade, but it is here to stay. If you’re wondering how to wrestle your child back from a digital world that is all-consuming, we offer a practical solution to limiting screen time through adventure therapy grounded in nature and human-centered relationships.
If your child is feeling burned out after high school, struggling to stay on top of mental health, or feeling unmotivated about a future academic track, taking a therapeutic gap year before college might make a lot of sense. Therapeutic gap years can prepare your child for college by helping them develop the necessary skills and maturity to thrive in a collegiate environment.
“We are celebrating our 10th anniversary and are as busy as ever.” says founder Andrew Taylor. “We are so grateful to the many families, students,
With technology becoming a way of life, it’s more important than ever to understand what effects–the good, the bad, and the ugly–screen time may have on our increasingly fragile generation of youth. We now have longitudinal data on the effects of screen time use in young people. Research has shown that screen time has far-reaching effects–touching your teen’s social, academic, and emotional development–something that cannot be ignored when it comes to parenting a millennial youth.