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Wild Systems


Toward the Next Ridgeline: Why Wilderness Belongs in Behavioral Health Care
By: Kallie Kurtz, LCSW/LICSW, JD/DSW Candidate There is a particular kind of silence that exists deep in the mountains after snowfall. Not the absence of sound, but the softening of it. The world becomes less sharp, yet somehow simultaneously far more clear. Edges no longer blurred by endless cognitive noise, but returned to their true form. In the mountains especially, clarity is often jagged. Granite ridgelines cutting across the horizon. Avalanche debris scattered beneath

Kallie Kurtz, LCSW
May 1311 min read
A Journal by Grove Institute

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