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Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Industry Council
Buffalo Grove, IL


OBHIC Calls For
Proposals for 2015 Symposium


Contact:
Jim Lavin
Event Director
info@wildernesstherapysymposium.org
obhcouncil.com/symposium/about/








Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Council (OBH Council) is pleased to announce the call for workshop proposals for the 2015 Wilderness Therapy Symposium. The Symposium will take place on August 27-29th, 2015 at the Canyon's Resort in Park City, UT.

If you are interested in presenting a workshop for the 2015 WT Symposium, please read the instructions below and then you may fill in the proposal form online on our WTS website, please remember to keep your proposal clear and concise.

Deadline for submitting a proposal for the 2015 Symposium is:
Monday, March 9th, 2015
All proposals will be thoroughly reviewed by our WT Symposium committee during the process of selecting the 2015 workshops. We generally receive between 80-100 proposals per year and our proposal review process therefore takes several months.

We hope to have an update for you regarding your proposal by June 15th, 2015, and thank you in advance for your patience with this selection process.

Workshop Proposal Instructions
The Wilderness Therapy Symposium (WTS) consists of interactive presentations, speakers and outdoor workshops. It brings a diverse cross-section of professionals under one roof to share theories, insights and best practices in an open spirit. The Symposium offers a place to explore, inform, and educate one another on a diverse range of topics all centering on various concepts and applications of wilderness therapy.

Tracks
For the 2015 Symposium, we will be introducing a "track" system for labeling our workshops. The purpose of including track labels is to make it easier for participants to choose from the workshop choices to select workshops that might be most appropriate for their professional interests.

Although we will be offering a workshop for each track during each time session, it is also very important to us to encourage new and innovative workshops that may not fall easily within a track designation and to continually promote new offerings with each year's Symposium.

The 5th track, "Outside the Track", is an appropriate designation for new or unusual workshops that might not fall easily into the other 4 track labels. The 5 main tracks that you might consider presenting within are:
  1. Clinical
  2. Field Practices/ Risk Management/ Leadership
  3. Research/Outcome Based
  4. Spiritual and/or Ceremony
  5. Outside the Track
  6. On the proposal form on our website you will be asked to self-select the one or more track labels that you feel would be most appropriate for your workshop.

Workshop Length
The WTS is accepting proposals for workshops that are 1.5, 3 and 6 hours long. This year's conference will follow a Thursday to Saturday schedule: the 6 hour workshops are scheduled for both Thursday and Saturday, and the 1.5 & 3 hour workshops will be offered on Friday and Saturday.

1.5 hours: This presentation length is a perfect opportunity to allow participants exposure to various concepts, research, and ideas. These presentations occur indoors.

3 hours: This longer, three-hour time frame is ideal for experiential interactive presentations. Presenters will have enough time to share in-depth information and allow for extensive participation by the attendees. These presentations can occur indoors or outdoors on the hotel grounds.

6 hours: All of the 6 hour workshops will occur on the trail and outdoor spaces that are part of the Canyon's resort and mountain or other wilderness areas nearby. Ideas for workshops include: climbing, fishing, primitive skills, tracking, experiential learning techniques, group initiatives, outdoor therapeutic skills, process groups, rites and rituals, evidence-based research which can be taught in an experiential and applicable manner, etc.

Presenter Registration Discount
6 Hour Workshop - one (1) Symposium registration fully compensated; up to two (2) additional presenters will be discounted by 15%

1.5 and 3 Hour Workshops - up to three (3) presenters will be discounted 15%

The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 9th, 2015.

We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium in 2015. Your participation-be it as a presenter, attendee or volunteer-is valued immensely.


OBHIC is a community of leading outdoor behavioral healthcare programs working to advance the field through best practices, effective treatment, and evidence-based research.

The Wilderness Therapy Symposium brings a diverse cross-section of clinicians, field instructors, rites of passage guides, educational consultants, professors, research specialists, students and residential programs staff under one roof to share theories, insights and best practices in an open spirit.






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