Student Schedule

Morning:
Wake Up. Personal hygiene. Breakfast. Pack up equipment and clean up campsite following Leave No Trace principles. Hike.

Noon:
Arrive at new campsite. Hand washing and lunch preparation. Lunch. Lunch clean-up

Afternoon:
Set up camp. Academic work or therapeutic assignments, games and possibly crafts. Phase work.

Evening:
Camp chores. Personal Hygiene. Dinner preparation and clean up. Letter and journal writing. Group processing session. Crafts, reading or personal time. Bed.

Therapy Days
Students participate in individual counseling sessions and group therapy sessions. These therapeutic interventions are typically on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Weekly Overview

In a typical week at Lone Star Expeditions our students rotate through a variety of programmatics allowing for a broad range of assessment and growth opportunities. Five days each week are spent on expedition, hiking and camping in the National Forest around our property. This expedition encourages the students to work together, creating group cohesion while also focusing individually on self-reliance, leadership, responsibility and self-care. Each group spends one day each week participating on a high and low ropes course with trained facilitators. The ropes course experience allows the students to challenge themselves personally, to work together as a team and offers different metaphors for growth and self-examination. The seventh day of the week is spent on our property in a permanent structure (a cabin). The student's have access to hot showers and laundry facilities, allowing them the opportunity to prepare for the next expedition. This structure experience helps our treatment team assess the student's readiness to acclimate to a more structured setting. The combination of these diverse experiences allows our clinical team to observe the student's in varied settings and assess each student's ability to transition into different environments with various levels of structure.