Adventure Recovery Colorado

Adventure Recovery (AR) is a national mental health and recovery organization that serves all ages with transformative outdoor experiences that educate, inspire, and empower. The Adventure Recovery Guide team travels, physically and metaphorically, to meet clients where they are and collaborate on goals, paths, and outcomes. Adventure Recovery Colorado is one AR location for programming and we have leadership team members and guides who facilitate individuals, groups, and institutional clients throughout the state and beyond.

In Colorado, the Adventure Recovery Crew members are part of the mental health and recovery community, accessing the terrain of the Rockies, and the process for getting outside safely, through professional instruction and support. In addition to AR standards of excellence in adventure guiding, the team is trained in mental health awareness, conscious communication, recovery coaching, PTSD support, and trauma awareness.

Adventure Recovery facilitates powerful half-day, day-long, overnight, and multi-day experiences traveling into the wild from these locations. Adventure Recovery Guides and Adventure Recovery Clinicians facilitate individual and group experiences, often using Colorado as a home base. In addition to the Colorado location, AR has a base of operations on the East Coast, in Connecticut, and offers programming across the US, Canada, and beyond.

With a prevention, mental health, and recovery-based focus, AR provides awareness-informed adventure services. You do not need to be in recovery to join us in the great outdoors, but we do support individuals on a recovery path. We work with those who want to learn outdoor skills and be part of a greater community. Here is more about how AR works. In addition, we provide Adventure Recovery mentor and coaching services to those who seek outdoor education and guidance. Tell us the goals, we’ll do the rest. Activities to explore:

• SUP, paddling + whitewater

• Bushcraft, creative time outdoors

• Fire ceremony, rites of passage, intention setting experiences

Adventure Recovery leads excursions, trainings, and expeditions in hiking, climbing, rafting, kayaking, canoeing, SUP, orienteering, mountain biking, backpacking, wilderness survival, river surfing, cross-country skiing, back-country snowboarding and skiing, and rites of passage. These programs can be tailored and customized to provide signature, bespoke experiences that have an impact.

Activities are led by professionally trained, certified, and credentialed crew members of AR Guides and Coaches who meet the needs of any group or program, through dynamic, skills-based life-affirming work.

“I am so grateful for Adventure Recovery and my AR Crew. As an AR Guide, I get to do what I love each and every day. On top of that, what we do is having a direct impact on other people’s lives. This brings purpose to the day. It’s so amazing to be part of a team of like-minded individuals with different passions and interests and to share and explore them with each other. For me, I love surfing. It’s very meditative being out in the water and the waves. It’s a great way to experience the energy and power of the ocean—and nature as a whole. I always feel better after a session and sharing that with other people is what it’s all about!”—Max E., AR Guide