Adventure is essential for wellbeing

As an experiential travel enthusiast, we love to talk about adventure, getting out into the great outdoors, stepping out of our comfort zone and of course do something great for communities. It has been cited that all these things will have a positive impact of mental and physical wellbeing.

We were therefore delighted to get in touch with Belinda Kirk to find out more about her new book and how ‘As a force for change, adventure can be powerful like few others’

For the past twenty-five years, Belinda Kirk’s professional life has revolved around adventure. She’s seen it change people first hand: turning the timid into the confident, the addicted into the recovering, and the lost into the intentionally wandering.

If you are looking for an inspirational and liberating book to add to your reading list, then this is the one!

More About The Book

Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge is the first book to explain why adventure is essential to wellbeing. It puts an energizing and groundbreaking case for ditching the living room in favour of a longer, happier, and more adventurous life.

“Drawing on lessons I’ve learnt from more than two decades of leading groups into the wilderness around the globe, my own research with modern hunter-gatherers, and the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, I show how adventure has the power to transform the timid into the confident, the addicted into the recovering, and the lost into the intentionally wandering.

It’s coming out on 5th August with Piatkus and Little, Brown Book Group.”

More about Belinda

Belinda Kirk is an explorer and the leading campaigner promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing. For the past twenty-five years, she has led dozens of international expeditions and remote filming trips. Belinda has walked through Nicaragua, sailed across the Atlantic, searched for camels in China’s Desert of Death, discovered ancient rock paintings in Lesotho and gained a Guinness World Record for rowing unsupported around Britain. She has led numerous youth development challenges, pioneered inclusive expeditions for people with disabilities and managed scientific research missions in the Amazon, Sinai and Alaska.

In 2009, Belinda established Explorers Connect, a non-profit organisation connecting people to adventure and has encouraged 30,000 ordinary people to engage in outdoor challenges.

In 2020 she launched the first conference to explore the positive impact that adventurous activity has on wellbeing. She has written Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge. It’s the first book to explain why adventure is essential to wellbeing. Drawing on lessons learnt from leading groups into the wilderness and the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, Belinda shows how adventure has the power to transform the timid into the confident, the addicted into the recovering, and the lost into the intentionally wandering.

Win a copy of Adventure Revolution

We are currently running a competition on Instagram to win a copy of Adventure Revolution from Friday 30^th July 2021 to midnight, Monday 2^nd August 2021.  To enter visit our Instagram profile and follow the competition rules as below:

To enter:

• Like this post and follow @Campsint
• Comment with your favourite adventure activity
• Tag a friend that likes adventure
• Share to your stories for an extra entry

Enter by midnight on the 2^nd August 2021 to be in with a chance of winning. Entries are available to those living in the UK only and prize will be posted out to winners at no extra charge. Two winners will be chosen at random, and the winners will be announced in our Instagram stories. This competition is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by or associated with Instagram.