Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge

Product Description 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. As a force for change, adventure can be powerful like few others.This book is about this transformational power, and the first to explore why adventure is essential to our wellbeing. From managing anxiety and overcoming fear, to finding self-worth and building interpersonal connections, to being happier, healthier, and more playful, ADVENTURE REVOLUTION draws lessons from more than two decades of experience leading groups into the wilderness around the globe. Illuminated with Belinda's personal narrative, her own research with modern hunter-gatherers, and the latest findings in neuroscience and behaviour, ADVENTURE REVOLUTION presents a compelling case for ditching the living room in favour of a longer, happier, and more adventurous life. Review A powerful reminder that adventure truly is a state of mind -- Bear Grylls I absolutely love it! Inspiring, life-affirming, and full of real-life adventures, Belinda Kirk urges us all to challenge ourselves to live more adventurously -- Professor Alice Roberts At last - adventures for everyone! Read this and reward yourself! Live your best life! This inspirational, liberating book is just what we need. Belinda Kirk has written a work to change our worlds -- Nicholas Crane A landmark book with a groundbreaking and powerful message. It's also a fantastic read packed with thrilling, moving and inspiring stories. I certainly recommend it! -- Chris Ryan A great and inspiring read with the potential to change the way you live. Empowering reading -- Helen Skelton An inspirational read. A testament to the spirit of exploration that resides in all of us. Reading this will make you want to go on an adventure -- Levison Wood The perfect post-pandemic handbook for anyone wanting help to revitalise their life, increase their confidence, surprise themselves. Belinda Kirk makes clear that purposeful adventure in the twenty-first century can be for us all. Everyone who wants to should be enabled and encouraged to access and benefit from the genuinely life-defining experiences - the powerful magic that can happen - on even the smallest adventure. Belinda Kirk is a wise champion and ADVENTURE REVOLUTION is a great companion to help on that journey -- Honor Wilson-Fletcher MBE, CEO British Exploring Society A really enjoyable, inspiring and convincing book. It wins the argument for seeking adventure in life -- Tristan Gooley Book Description A professional explorer reveals the astonishing health and psychological benefits of living more adventurously About the Author Belinda Kirk is an explorer, researcher, speaker, and the founding campaigner of #AdventureRevolution, a campaign promoting the benefits of adventure on wellbeing. For the past 25 years, Belinda has led numerous personal expeditions, youth development expeditions, biological research missions, and remote filming trips for the BBC. She has walked across Nicaragua, searched for camels in China's Desert of Death, discovered ancient rock paintings in Lesotho, pioneered inclusive expeditions for people with disabilities, and gained a Guinness World Record for rowing unsupported around Britain.As an expert expedition leader and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Belinda has also managed remote trips for Bear Grylls, Chris Ryan, and Ray Mears, among others.In 2009, Belinda launched Explorers Connect, a non-profit organisation connecting people to adventures. In 2016, Belinda founded Wild Night Out, Britain's National Night of Adventure. As a speaker, Belinda's message of positivity - that we can truly change the world, one adventure at a time - has graced the stages of the English Speaking Union, the Royal Geographical Society, and Buckingham Palace