Gippsland Adventure Therapy

18/11/2025

On Kurnai Country

I like sticks!!!! 🤣

I’m heading to the Charles Sturt University in Port Macquarie this weekend to run a “Fun, Safe, Useful” workshop all about engaging youth into better mental health outcomes.

And yes, kids like sticks!!!! Anyone coming will get their very own stick to craft🏒.

Come and get excited about sticks with me🤣🥰

10/11/2025

21/10/2025

On Kurnai Country,

The Village Health will be my new home and I couldn’t be more excited to be given the opportunity to facilitate engaging, relational and young person led therapuetic outdoor sessions in the Warragul area.

See you soon.

Adventure meets therapy and it’s landing right here at The Village Health!

We’re so excited to welcome Doug Moczynski, our new Youth and Children's Practitioner & Adventure Therapist.

Doug brings over 15 years’ experience working with young people across Gippsland and is best known for his nature-based approach through Gippsland Adventure Therapy.

At The Village Health, Doug is offering both the big adventures he’s known for and bite-sized, 90-minute therapy adventures right here in Warragul. Designed to help young people build confidence, connection, and calm in creative, active ways.

⛰ Healing, but make it an adventure.

Contact us today to book with Doug.

10/10/2025

On GunaiKurnai Country.

This week I was the parent helper for my little person’s primary school camp! Not a camp guide, not an activity instructor or even outdoor therapy person, I was just little persons Dad and there to help out.

The camp’s theme was “resilience” and for some students it was their first time away from home.

In the world according to Doug resilience can happen when young people are given opportunities to try things while being held in relational safety by trusted grown ups. It’s an art form and takes a high level of self awareness from adults to facilitate. It can become negative if we push kids outside of their window of tolerance and stay ridged to what we think should be desired outcomes.

The role of attuned teachers and support staff are essential on camps. Freelance guides or camp staff while exceptional and equally essential to running a successfull camp, don’t have the opportunity to form those secure relationships required to lead little people through big experiences like a first time camper.

Being connected to their little people well enough to know when to push, when to give space, or when they just need a hug. The school staff just were amazing, so patient and dedicated about their students and gaining good outcomes for their experiences. Such a privilege to be helping a team out that cares so much for their little people.

Sign me up for next year please!

16/09/2025

Can’t wait!!

🌿 Meet Doug at Open Day! 🌿

Doug is an adventurer at heart and a youth worker who’s spent nearly 20 years creating therapeutic outdoor experiences for young people. From his barefoot beginnings in the rainforests of Far North Queensland to launching Gippsland Adventure Therapy, Doug has dedicated his life to helping young people connect, heal, and grow through adventure.

At Wollangarra’s Open Day, Doug will be taking the stage to share insights from his journey — exploring how fun, safety, and usefulness can create life-changing experiences for young people. Later in the day, he’ll run an interactive workshop where you can dive deeper into this simple but powerful framework.

Don’t miss the chance to learn, reflect, and be inspired by Doug’s passion for adventure, social work, and giving kids something worth imitating.

14/09/2025

I will be heading up to Port Mac for this to run a fun, safe, useful workshop. It’s going to be a tonne of fun, with some inspirational people. Looking forward to the extra time scheduled to connect with like minded people, that’s always the hardest part about conferences, never enough time to chat with people.

***Early Bird Rates Close on the 1st of October***

Join international experts in outdoor education and therapy, experiential learning, and progressive education to master the art of experiential education.

Download the Conference program here:https://www.outdoortherapycentre.com/uploads/2/9/6/4/29645687/experiential_practice_summit_program_draft_11_september.pdf

Registration includes a community dinner, four international keynote presentations, and dozens of experiential skills-based workshops.

Register Here Today: https://trybooking.com/events/landing/1329593