Steve Sawyer Clinical Director and Co-Founder Visits The Field

Why Wilderness Therapy?

Steve Sawyer Explains his take on why wilderness therapy works and why he started New Vision Wilderness Therapy.

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New Vision Wilderness' strengths reside in the intensity of clinical interventions, its relational therapy and true Trauma Informed Care (TIC) model. New Vision Wilderness tailors the entire intervention process by the understanding that the field environment is a stressed environment. Focusing on advanced neural science allows for an effective and safe impact of teens. The safest measure for the human brain is strong attuned relationships. The relational model allows interventions to work their way up the brain stem to a state of overall healing.


Most residential treatments and wilderness programs offer 1 to 2 individual client sessions per week, at New Vision Wilderness we offer 3 individual sessions per week as well as multiple group therapy sessions each week. In addition to the individual and group therapy session our clinicians are trained in modern, cutting edge, and evidence based interventions.

New Vision Wilderness Offers interventions and programs including:

-Art Therapy
-Gardening
-Trauma Informed Yoga
-Body/Somatic Awareness
-And the Mastery System


New Vision Wilderness embraces that each client has a path, and the road to getting there can not be reached by a cookie cutter approach. NVW’s Mastery System was founded on helping individuals become a master of whatever they choose, and our therapeutic job is to assist in getting the blocks out of the way whether they are emotional, or historical. We foster independence through empowerment, knowledge and personal growth.


Credentials of our clinical staff are frequently updated here.


For more information on our therapeutic model or on New Vision Wilderness visit:

www.newvisionwilderness.com or email info@newvisionwilderness.com or call Admissions: 855.689.8326

New Vision WIlderness expands to Bend, Oregon

New Vision Wilderness expands... 

  

New Vision Wilderness - West Coast is happy to announce that we have relocated our offices and primary operating area to the high desert of Central Oregon.  With the changing of the seasons, and in preparations for the coming winter, moving our operations to Bend is an exciting development that will allow our team to have greater accessibility and better communications with our field operations. 

 

Drew Hornbeck, President and Co-Founder has relocated his family to Bend, Oregon as well.  "With the growth and success of our North Wood's program in Central Wisconsin. I'm thrilled to be able to join the dynamic and talented team that we've got here in Oregon. The move has allowed me to dedicate a substantial amount of my energy translating and growing all of the special elements that makes New Vision Wilderness an amazing therapeutic option for our clients." 

New Vision West Coast serves adolescent 14-17 and young adults 18-25.  Our Trauma Informed Care model is a sensitive approach to working with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, relational and adoption issues and dual diagnosis.  By combining the healing power of nature with advanced brain based clinical techniques and bio-feedback, our highly trained therapists are able to help instill lasting positive change with our clients without harmful behavioral modification strategies.

"New Vision is more than just a name" says Rob Koning, Executive Director.  "It's a new approach to wilderness therapy which continues to rewrite what's possible working with clients in the outdoors."

New Vision Wilderness offers two locations with programs for adolescents and young adults in Oregon and pre-teens and adolescents in Wisconsin.

  

Please contact admissions for more information,  info@newvisionwilderness.comor 855.689.8326.

www.newvisionwilderness.com

NVW Staff Challenges Tough Mudder

The New Vision Wilderness staff is always incorporating staff-wellness events into their weekly and monthly schedules. Bringing each other together outside the workplace helps strengthen their bonds at work. From smaller events, such as cookouts and movie nights, to larger events, such as marathons and Tough Mudder obstacle courses, the New Vision staff enjoys wellness events.

If you’ve never hear of Tough Mudder before, than you’re in for a surprise.

What is Tough Mudder?

Tough Mudder events are hardcore obstacle courses designed to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, over one million inspiring participants worldwide to date, and more than $5 million raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world. But Tough Mudder is more than an event; it’s a way of thinking. By running a Tough Mudder challenge, you’ll unlock a true sense of accomplishment, have a great time and discover a camaraderie with your fellow participants that’s experienced all too rarely these days.

Dave Mosse, Field Director, Challenges Tough Mudder

“The race was great. It was a total of 11.8 miles with approximately 20 obstacles. Our average mile pace was about 8:30 minutes per mile. All the obstacles were fun but my favorite with out a doubt was an obstacle called the funky monkey, which came at about the 11-mile mark. This was a new take on the monkey bars we all know and love from our days on playground except instead of straight across it had a 45 degree pitch going up and the same going down on the other side! We rocked it with no problems. Another obstacle that was fun was a leap from a 30ft platform, which was reached by climbing up a nearly vertical and very muddy wall with small wood ledges with enough room to step on with one toe. That one was great. When you hit the water and mud, it was very refreshing. The other obstacle that sticks out as a favorite would be the "Berlin Wall," which is a 15ft wall where you have to use your team mates as a ladder to get to the top and the help the last person over the wall by pulling them up! Great team work. My least favorite was called "electroshock" therapy. For this obstacle we had to crawl under 20ft of barbed wire, which had electrically charged wire hanging down, and damn did they pack a wallop! I saw two people get knocked out for a moment when they got shocked. I was lucky and only was shocked twice it the back, but damn it hurt. Our total time was 2hr 20min and it was a blast! I'm a lot more confident as I move into training for a 24hr obstacle course race next spring or fall.”

More Resources:

Dave Mosse, Field Director Biography: http://goo.gl/8GSKqm

Tough Mudder Website: http://goo.gl/4cNFzo