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Adventure revolution : the life-changing power of choosing challenge / Belinda Kirk.

By: Kirk, Belinda [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Piatkus, 2021Publisher: ©2021Description: xv, 234 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780349428239 (paperback) .Subject(s): Kirk, Belinda | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Adventure and adventurersDDC classification: 158.1 KIR
Contents:
Introduction -- Inspiration contagion -- Why adventure matters -- The absence of adventure -- To heal -- To grow up -- To face fear -- To stretch and grow -- To strengthen relationships -- To find joy -- To find meaning -- To become your best you -- Epilogue
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main 158.1 KIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38888000934087
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For the past twenty-five years, Belinda Kirk's professional life has revolved around adventure. She's seen it change people first hand: turning the timid into the confident, the addicted into the recovering, and the lost into the intentionally wandering. As a force for change, adventure can be powerful like few others.

This book is about this transformational power, and the first to explore why adventure is essential to our wellbeing. From managing anxiety and overcoming fear, to finding self-worth and building interpersonal connections, to being happier, healthier, and more playful, ADVENTURE REVOLUTION draws lessons from more than two decades of experience leading groups into the wilderness around the globe. Illuminated with Belinda's personal narrative, her own research with modern hunter-gatherers, and the latest findings in neuroscience and behaviour, ADVENTURE REVOLUTION presents a compelling case for ditching the living room in favour of a longer, happier, and more adventurous life.

Introduction -- Inspiration contagion -- Why adventure matters -- The absence of adventure -- To heal -- To grow up -- To face fear -- To stretch and grow -- To strengthen relationships -- To find joy -- To find meaning -- To become your best you -- Epilogue

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Belinda Kirk is an explorer and the leading campaigner promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing. For the past twenty-five years, she has led dozens of international expeditions and remote filming trips. Belinda has walked through Nicaragua, sailed across the Atlantic, searched for camels in China's Desert of Death, discovered ancient rock paintings in Lesotho and gained a Guinness World Record for rowing unsupported around Britain. She has led numerous youth development challenges, pioneered inclusive expeditions for people with disabilities and managed scientific research missions in the Amazon, Sinai and Alaska. In 2009, Belinda established Explorers Connect, a non-profit organisation connecting people to adventure and has encouraged 30,000 ordinary people to engage in outdoor challenges. In 2020 she launched the first conference to explore the Adventure Effect, the positive impact that adventurous activity has on wellbeing.