Anita Pryor
Director
Anita is a director of Adventure Works and a keen practitioner, trainer and researcher in BAT. At a young age, Anita noticed that adventuring with friends and family in natural environments made her feel good and she wanted to share that with other people. After two decades of doing just that, Adventure Works is her way of putting all of her personal and professional experiences into one place. She wants to increase the uses of bush adventures for therapy in Australia and expand people’s opportunity to experience the healing potential of BAT. Anita’s personal approach comes from the belief that humans benefit from contact with nature and that ‘good therapy’ is not something ‘done’ to another person, but co-created.
Ben Knowles
Co-Director & Clinical Supervisor
As a director of Adventure Works, Ben is dedicated to seeing outdoor therapy and bush adventure therapy become widely available for people from all walks of life who face difficulty or hardship. Ben has experienced and witnessed the self-affirming and life-changing joy of time spent in the bush and the breadth of healing that can accompany this. As a child and young man Ben spent a great deal of time exploring his local bush in the Adelaide hills and the mountains and the forests of central and western Victoria. He grew up living in a country pub, on small farms and in small communities. These early experiences laid a foundation that would become a strong therapeutic practice grounded in the lived and unfolding experience of people, culture and place. With over 15 years of experience, Ben decided it was time to make good on a long-held plan to begin what is now Adventure Works.
Pete Rae
Director
Pete has worked professionally as an outdoor leader, educator and practitioner in BAT for over 20 years and has enjoyed his own personal adventures in the outdoors for nearly 40 years. Now as a director of Adventure Works, he brings experience in program development, administration and management to the Adventure Works team, and has helped establish the operational aspects of Adventure Works. Pete has worked across a range of outdoor activity disciplines and modes of delivery with children, young people and adults, in groups and with individuals. In his spare time Pete works on his family’s organic hobby farm and escapes for adventures in Tasmania’s fantastic outdoors with his family.
