Dolphin Adventure Experience

Our Program was founded in March 2001 by the director Gunther Rosenstock. After six years we opened up the Dolphin Ranch Program officially. We currently have 3 staffed resources working with youth and 2 resources for adults with disabilities. How Dolphin Ranch was started. Since Gunther Rosenstock worked in the field with clients in their adolesce... nce, he always wondered how he could support youth to function, understand, trust, believe and more motivated. Those where challenges, not to mention empathy, compassion, love and social understanding. During and after University Gunther knew already what he would want to do with his degree. He wanted to go out and show those young teenagers that he arrested when he was a police officer, how they could make better choices before they got into crime. So he started to use recreational therapy and adventure therapy as tools to work with girls and boys between the ages of 12 to 19 in Germany. Since he got great feedback and some decent results in the way they responded to him or the new things they had discovered, he was encouraged to go a step further start his own business. He opened up a Erlebnispaedagogische Tageseinrichtung fuer Jugendliche which would translate as Outdoors Recreational Therapy Daycare for Group Home Youth. He worked with one organization that had eight different houses each with different aged teenagers, ten peers per house of mixed genders. So when he did some meditation in the German woods, or hiking in the Andorran Mountains, canoeing into the Northern Sea he felt always after he did a reflection interview with the youth, that they took something with them, not in pictures or in their resumes, but in their confidence. Confidence was always something youth had to figure out and when you struggle, as a teenager -because you can never find rest or moments of peace, then there is certainly no time for development of healthy confidence. What did that mean? It meant overcoming fear and working on fulfilling the promise that everybody at least once ...Read More