ANASAZI FOUNDATION

The organization utilizes a nurturing, strength-based approach rooted in Positive Psychology, aiming to instill confidence and hope. Therapists are trained in empirically-based, systems-oriented models like DBT and Emotion-focused Family Therapy, and the program incorporates proprietary curricula such as "The Seven Paths" and "The Anatomy of Peace" to teach life and relationship skills.

The organization integrates empirically-based, systems-oriented treatment models like Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotion-focused Family Therapy, consistent with a positive psychology perspective. This approach aims to instill confidence and hope, believing in the capacity for insight and voluntary change, and focusing on nurturing and strength-based interventions.

The organization grounds its therapeutic interventions in empirically-based, systems-oriented treatment models like Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotion-focused Family Therapy. It adopts a positive psychology approach, focusing on nurturing strengths, instilling confidence, and believing in the capacity for insight and voluntary change.

The organization utilizes the wilderness as a therapeutic environment, believing that direct experience in nature, combined with survival skills and specific activities, facilitates self-discovery, introspection, and the development of resilience and interpersonal skills. This approach avoids contrived experiences or manipulative techniques, instead focusing on walking alongside participants and allowing the natural setting to promote change.

Utilizing the wilderness as a therapeutic environment, the organization employs direct, day-to-day experiences in nature, survival skills, and specific activities to facilitate self-discovery, introspection, and the development of resilience and interpersonal skills. This approach avoids contrived experiences or manipulative techniques, allowing nature itself to be a catalyst for change.

The organization utilizes the wilderness as a primary therapeutic environment, believing that direct experience in nature, combined with survival skills and specific activities, facilitates self-discovery, introspection, and the development of resilience and interpersonal skills. This approach avoids contrived experiences, manipulation, or punishment, instead focusing on walking alongside participants.

The organization emphasizes active family involvement and a family systems approach, recognizing that individual behavioral changes are deeply interconnected with family dynamics. They prepare parents and children for reconciliation, provide training in relationship skills, and offer programs for parents to understand and resolve conflicts, believing that the parent-child relationship is the most therapeutic for a child.

Recognizing that individual change is deeply intertwined with family dynamics, the organization emphasizes active family involvement throughout the treatment process. This includes preparing parents and children for reconciliation, addressing family systems, providing relationship skills training, and offering intensive parent programs to foster new ways of interacting and ensure sustained positive outcomes.

The organization emphasizes a family-centered approach, recognizing that individual behavioral changes are deeply interconnected with family dynamics. They actively involve parents and caregivers in the treatment process through workshops, therapy sessions, and shared wilderness experiences to foster reconciliation, improve communication, and ensure sustained positive outcomes by changing family interaction patterns.

The organization emphasizes a family-centered approach, recognizing that individual behavioral changes are deeply interconnected with family dynamics. They actively involve parents and caregivers in the treatment process, providing training, workshops, and shared wilderness experiences to facilitate reconciliation, improve communication, and establish new, healthier ways of interacting for sustained positive outcomes.

The organization believes that lasting change comes from an internal "Change of Heart" rather than external behavioral modification. They foster this through an environment of love, acceptance, and respect, allowing individuals to experience the natural consequences of their choices and encouraging voluntary insight and transformation.

The organization believes that lasting personal change comes from an internal "Change of Heart" rather than external behavioral modification. They foster this by creating an environment of love, acceptance, and respect, allowing individuals to experience the natural consequences of their choices and encouraging voluntary insight and transformation.

The organization employs a holistic, bio-psychosocial-spiritual approach to treatment, recognizing the influence of mind, body, heart, and spirit. They integrate spiritual exploration, acknowledging a Creator, without endorsing specific denominations, believing this component is vital for individual and family growth and distinguishes their approach from purely secular methods.

The organization employs a holistic, bio-psychosocial-spiritual approach, acknowledging the influence of mind, body, heart, and spirit in individual and family growth. It encourages voluntary exploration of the spiritual component of one's life, using generic references to a "Creator" and integrating faith-based principles without imposing specific religious beliefs.

The organization employs a holistic, bio-psychosocial-spiritual approach, acknowledging the influence of mind, body, heart, and spirit on individual and family growth. They encourage voluntary exploration of the spiritual component of one's life, using generic references to a "Creator" and integrating faith-based principles without imposing specific religious beliefs.

The organization positions its wilderness "trail" experience as an initial, intensive phase of treatment for youth with various challenges. This phase is designed to integrate into a broader, comprehensive treatment plan, and the organization provides long-term follow-up opportunities to solidify and sustain the changes achieved during the wilderness experience.

The organization offers its "trail" experience as an initial phase of treatment, integrating it into a comprehensive, long-term plan for youth with more severe problems. This includes providing follow-up opportunities and inviting families to stay involved for at least one year post-wilderness experience to solidify changes.

The organization employs a nurturing, strength-based approach rooted in Positive Psychology. This methodology aims to instill confidence and hope in youth by believing in their inherent capacity for insight and voluntary change, fostering holistic development, and helping individuals discover their potential.

The organization utilizes its proprietary curriculum, "The Seven Paths: Changing One’s Way of Walking in the World," and draws training material from "The Anatomy of Peace." It employs a unique "language" inspired by Native American culture and nature metaphors to engage youth, avoiding traditional psychological terminology that might cause resistance.

The organization utilizes its own proprietary curriculum, "The Seven Paths: Changing One’s Way of Walking in the World," and draws from "The Anatomy of Peace" to teach life and relationship skills. They employ a unique "language" inspired by Native American culture and nature metaphors to engage youth, avoiding traditional psychological terminology that might create resistance.

The organization utilizes its proprietary curriculum, "The Seven Paths: Changing One’s Way of Walking in the World," and draws from "The Anatomy of Peace" to teach wilderness and life skills. This includes training in fundamental elements of effective communication, responsibility, conflict resolution, and building trust and commitment in personal relationships.

The organization integrates a spiritual component into its treatment, acknowledging a Creator and encouraging voluntary exploration of one's spiritual life. This approach is inclusive, using generic references and inviting exploration of family faith traditions without endorsing specific denominations or imposing religious beliefs, aiming for holistic growth.

The organization utilizes its proprietary "Anasazi Way" methodology, developed from extensive experience in wilderness settings with young people. This approach is guided by an Official Statement and Ten Guiding Principles, forming the core of their therapeutic practice.

The organization utilizes the wilderness as a primary therapeutic setting, believing that direct experience in nature, combined with survival skills and specific activities, removes opportunities for manipulation, builds self-confidence, and provides a unique space for introspection, self-discovery, and adaptation without contrived experiences or punishment.