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Nevin Harper

Nevin Harper, PhD, Sport & Fitness Leadership

Biography:

Nevin Harper is the Chair of Sport Management programs in the Centre for Sport & Exercise Education, the National Research Coordinator for Outward Bound Canada and instructor of leadership, outdoor adventure, and environmental fitness. Nevin enjoys challenging students to explore their full potential, reflect on new insights and when necessary, to wing it with conviction!

Published works

Self and Place: Journeys in the Land by Nevin J. Harper, Cathryn Carpenter, David Segal
Ecopsychology, December 2012, Volume 4, issue 4, pp. 319-325.

One's sense of place relates closely to one's sense of self—a self inextricably linked and emergent within one's context. Contemporary lifestyles have altered human-to-environment relationships, including significant reductions in direct contact with wild nature, displacement of people from place, and shifts in our social and psychological well-being…The practice of “journeying” will be shared as an approach to facilitate personal growth, a reconnection to nature, and to evoke deeper meaning-making in change processes...
Future Paradigm or False Idol: A Cautionary Tale of Evidence-Based Practice for Adventure Education and Therapy. by Nevin Harper
Journal of Experiential Education, 2010, Volume 33, issue 1, pp. 38-55.
Looking at the landscape of adventure therapy: Making links to theory and practice by Guest editors: Kaye Richards, Nevin Harper and Cathryn Carpenter.
Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, Special Issue: Outdoor & Adventure Therapy. 2011.

Recognized leaders in the international adventure therapy community, Richards, Harper and Carpenter, have edited this special issue on “Outdoor and Adventure Therapy”. This collection of research and conceptual papers is reflective of the growing interest and use of adventure activities and outdoor learning for therapeutic and developmental interventions.