Alice Henshaw of AVH Global is pleased to be teaching another Wilderness Medical Associates course for Adventure Recovery in October. If you’ve been considering upgrading your WAFA certification to Wilderness First Responder, this particular course offers a unique opportunity to take the course with an emphasis on addiction and mental health awareness. This course utilizes appropriate scenarios to directly reflect the populations AR Guides and AR Coaches work with on a daily

When Alice Henshaw packs a makeup kit for her upcoming trip to Texas, she’s packing products guaranteed to produce a significantly different effect than what most of us would be trying for. Because as a WMA instructor, it’s Alice’s job to produce the most realistic situational scenarios possible in order to prepare her students what they would actually be faced with. Nope, no humans were harmed in the making of this simulation...it's just great "moulage"! Real-world situatio

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”. Arguably a Chinese proverb and quote that I was first introduced to in my High School Biology class by a teacher who had a penchant for quotes on his door (that always closed promptly at the ringing of the second bell). Thought and natural consequences; two threads that resonated at that time, and that have followed throughout my life. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that my life has vascillated between f