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aabat forum 2022

australian association for bush adventure therapy

Timetable & Map

21-23 October 2022

Baptist Care Adventure Camp, Mylor, South Australia

TIMETABLE
FRIDAY - PRE-FORUM WORKSHOPS
Time Session Location
9:00am – 4:00pm BAT 101 Chapel

9:30am – 4:00pm Equine Facilitated Adventure

Meet at the Chapel
(for transport to Strathalbyn)

FRIDAY NIGHT
Time Session Location
3:30pm – 5:30pm Registrations and Check In (open til 8pm for latecomers) The Cottage (Forum
Forum Office
Office)

5:30pm – 7:00pm BBQ Dinner and Networking Dining Hall and Outdoors
Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony Riverbank Outdoors near Marquee
7:00pm – 7:30pm
Aunty Mandy Brown and Uncle Ken Jones Campfire 2
7:30pm – 8:00pm Forum Opening and Introductions Marquee
8:00pm – 10:00pm Fireside Music and Connection Activities Marquee and Campfires 1, 2 and 3

Meals served from Dining Hall. Quiet time from 10.30pm. Locations are meeting places where sessions begin.
Remember to bring appropriate clothing for water based activities.

SATURDAY
Time Marquee Dining Hall Chapel Riverview Room Bouldering Shed
Optional Pre-Dawn Activities:
Cultural Walk with Uncle Ken and Luke Mabb (meet at Campfire 3)
6:00am – 7:00am Slow Paddle at Dawn (meet at Bouldering Shed)
Self-organised Groups Activities – walk, run, meditation, yoga, tai chi, art (check notice board in Dining Hall)

7:00am – 8:15am Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country – Rosemary Wanganeen and Uncle Ken
8:15am – 8:30am
Morning Reflection on importance of Place in Learning and Healing

8:30am – 9:00am AABAT. Who are we?

KEYNOTE: Adventure, Risk and Critical Decision Making – Dr Richard Harris

9:00am – 10:00am
Interview with Youth Advocate – Abigail Henderson
10:00am – 10:15am Reflection / Q & A

10:15am – 10:40am Morning Tea

Outdoor Learning Embracing Meaning in Wayapa Wuurrk, Playing for Wellness Metaphorical Mountain
and Navigating Nature Connecting You to Kaya Lyons Biking
10:40am – 12:00pm Contemporary Society Mauro Vieira Earth and Self Ben Trewren
Scott Polley Diana Barnett

12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch

Forest Bathing: Design and Facilitation Bite-sized BAT: A Tool Dipping Your Toes Into Equine Therapy and the
Nature Connection for of Metaphoric Journey Kit for Experiential Adventure Therapy Invitational Approach
1:00pm – 2:30pm Wellbeing Preparation for New Activities in the Field Kylie Agnew Kylie Peters
Bronwyn Paynter and World Chaos Kalindi Brennan (pool/river)
Alex Gaut Wayne Enright

2:30pm – 3:00pm Afternoon Tea

SATURDAY continued ...
Time Marquee Dining Hall Chapel Riverview Room Bouldering Shed
7 Step Nature Listening, Noticing, Listening as Earth’s Let’s Go! Exploring Drumming Circle
Connection and Questioning: An Body: A Collective Family Adventure Djulz Chambers
Mandala Creation Exploration of Transformation Therapy Practices
3:00pm – 4:30pm Melissa Hellwig and Narrative Therapy Moran Weisel Out-of-Doors
Bronwyn Paynter Ben Knowles Robert Coller, Anita
Pryor and Kylie Peters

4:30pm – 4:45pm Transition Time

The Great Debate: Building Bridges, not The Importance of Guula-abirang Dipping Your Toes into
Is Bush Adventure Burning Them: A Taste Relationship in Caring Barayal-abirang Adventure Therapy
Therapy Just Talk of the ‘Walk of Life’ for Young People in Out ngarrayn - Learning Kylie Agnew
4:45pm – 5:45pm Therapy Outdoors? Program of Home Care from Koala Song (pool/river)
Graham Pringle and Mark Cartner Sharleen James and Arlene McInherny
Will Dobud Joanna Gibson

Bush Choir The Changing Cultural Walk

Juggs and Loz Landscape of AABAT’ or
6:00pm – 6:50pm Transition to OHA and Slow Paddle at Dusk
International Update
Becky and Co

7:00pm – 8:30pm Dinner

8:30pm – 10:00pm Fireside Activities: Music and Storytelling Magic Tortoise Music (8:00pm - 10:00pm in the Marquee)

SUNDAY
Time Marquee Dining Hall Chapel Riverview Room Bouldering Shed
Optional Pre-Dawn Activities:
Cultural Walk with Uncle Ken and Luke Mabb (meet at Campfire 3)
6:00am – 7:00am Slow Paddle at Dawn (meet at Bouldering Shed)
Self-organised Groups Activities – walk, run, meditation, yoga, tai chi, art (check notice board in Dining Hall)

7:00am – 8:30am Breakfast (Clean out dorms, pack up tents)

KEYNOTE: Out of Grief Fear, into Intuitive Intelligence

9:00am – 10:00am The story of how I came to Griefology through the wisdom of mother nature
Rosemary Wanganeen – Kaurna Elder and Founder of Griefology

10:00am – 10:15am Reflection / Q & A

10:15am – 10:45am Morning Tea

Doing the BAT Dance The 7 Phases to Forest Bathing: Nature-Based
Josh McLean and Lisa Reintegrate Grief and Nature Connection for Therapy / Nature
10:45am – 12:15pm Hutcheon Loss (Walk Shop) Wellbeing Journaling
Rosemary Wanganeen Bronwyn Paynter and Kit Kline
Alex Gaut

12:15pm – 1:30pm Lunch

A Trauma Informed Professional Drumming Circle Tweens: Preparing for Lit Chats: A Microdose
Lens on High Impact Supervision for Djulz Chambers the Growing Up Years of Nature with a
Activities and What it Nature-Based Louise Flaherty Macrodose of Fun
1:30pm – 3:00pm Really Means to Get Practitioners Seth Tullar
Out of the Comfort Gabrielle Enright
Zone
Nick Atkin

3:00pm – 3:15pm Afternoon Tea

3:15pm – 4:00pm Closing Ceremony – not to be missed!

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