Adventure & Nature Therapy represents a holistic, experiential framework that primarily employs experiential (as well as adventure-based) and nature-based methods to facilitate therapeutic change processes.
Central to this approach is direct experiential engagement: Through structured actions and task-oriented activities, meaningful experiences emerge that are then professionally reflected upon and connected to everyday domains of functioning and participation (according to the ICF – International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) as well as to individual life contexts.

While nature-based interventionsNBI Nature-Based Interventions (NBI) are intentional, structured practices that use nature and natural environments to promote psychological, physical, and social health. (NBINBI Nature-Based Interventions (NBI) are intentional, structured practices that use nature and natural environments to promote psychological, physical, and social health.) constitute an important subdomain of this practice—systematically fostering nature connectedness and interactions in and with nature to support therapeutic processes—the Adventure Therapy Institute conceptualizes a broader spectrum under the term “experiential- and nature-based interventionsENBI ENBI (Experiential- and Nature-Based Interventions) describes an integrative therapeutic framework that combines intentional experiential engagement with nature-based methods to evoke meaningful, embodied experiences that strengthen self-efficacy, regulation, and therapeutic change.” (ENBI).
This concept extends beyond the scope of NBI by intentionally integrating experiential dimensions—particularly intentional action, affective and physical engagement, embodied perception, and reflective meaning-making—to initiate or support therapeutic processes.

ENBI is understood as an expanded, integrative framework that combines nature-based components with experiential, action-oriented, and reflection-centered elements, thereby enhancing the therapeutic depth and impact.

Across all modalities, the overarching goal remains to activate developmental, regulatory, and self-healing processes by immersing clients and patients in meaningful, embodied experiences that strengthen intrinsic motivation, and personal self-efficacy within the therapeutic process.