The Wilderness Therapy Symposium attracts a range of populations including therapists, field guides, rites of passage guides, educational consultants, students, and professors. Last year, we estimate that 55% of the participants were individuals who own, manage, or work at wilderness programs; 20% work in fields and programs related to Wilderness Therapy such as therapeutic schools, treatment centers, and referral agencies; 10% were students and professors; 5% were therapists and other professionals with practices related to wilderness therapy; 10% were “investigating” career opportunities in the field of Wilderness Therapy. Based on feedback from last year’s event and inquiries about the 7th Annual Symposium, we are anticipating attendance at approximately 250.

Programs and Organizations that have presented at the Symposium in the past include:

Animas Valley Institute
Aspen Achievement Academy
Association of Mediation and Transport
Bill Lane Transport
C.A.L.O. Academy
Connections Workshops
Deer Hill Expeditions
Dynamic Interventions, LLC
Edufax
Earth-Based Institute
Four Circles Recovery Program
Catherine Freer
Gateway Academy
Her Feet on the Earth
Kinesthetic Astronomy
Naropa University
New Leaf Academy
New Lifestyles
Northlight Family Services
Northwest Academy
Northwest Challenge Course Network
Open Sky Wilderness Program
Outback Therapeutic Expeditions
Outdoor Leadership Training Seminars
Passages to Recovery
Peak Experience
Prescott College
Rogers Memorial Hospital
School of Lost Borders
Soltreks
Summit Achievement Academy
SUWS of the Carolinas
SUWS Adolescent Programs
The School of Lost Borders
Three Rivers Montana
Touched by a Horse
Second Nature
Second Nature Cascade
Second Nature Entrada
SUWS of the Carolinas
SUWS Adolescent Programs
Vision Arrow
Wilderness Directions
Wilderness Encounters
Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS
Women’s Wilderness Institute