Kenny Davis listens throughout a meditation led by among the Arch Academy trainees after fly fishing on the Harpeth River. Image: Martin B. Cherry/ Nashville Banner
The recovery power of fly fishing is well recorded, and the sport is utilized as a sort of treatment for veterans, cancer clients and survivors, and other groups in requirement of spiritual and physical recovery. A moving story in The Nashville Banner is among the rawest, most sincere posts about teenagers who fight with dependency, and the manner in which Arch Academy utilizes fly-fishing to assist them (and their trainer) browse their healing is motivating:
Arch’s curriculum is adventure-based, focused around backpacking, high ropes courses, and– as soon as kids reach a particular phase in their healing– fly fishing. Kenny is the school’s experience organizer and a therapist. He pitched the fly fishing program and developed it from the ground up 2 years earlier. There are science-backed elements of fly fishing that provide themselves to healing. Fly fishing is likewise exceptionally individual to Kenny, a main piece of his own story.
