Collaborations with the Natural World:
Nature-based Wilderness Therapy Intensive Training
For: Therapists, Coaches, Educators and Healers
Location: In the mountains near Boulder, CO
Dates: June 14 – 18, 2023
Collaborations with the Natural World is an experiential immersion into therapeutic relationship with the natural world. This training will inspire, deepen and transform your relationship to yourself, your work and ultimately to the natural world! Through a combination of your own explorations in nature, along with didactic presentation, discussion, and the weaving of practical application, you will leave with:
- A basic understanding of the core principles of nature-based therapy
- An overview of the fields of wilderness therapy, adventure therapy and ecopsychology and the different ways they are being practiced
- Many practical tools, exercises and interventions that you can immediately utilize with clients
- Theory and practice in creating relevant, nature-based interventions for specific therapeutic goals
- Lived experience and practice of what it means to collaborate with the natural world
- Inspiration and clarity for your next steps in collaborating with the natural world as healer
Curriculum Content will include:
- Deepening your personal relationship with the natural world
- An understanding of the overall field of Wilderness Therapy
- Sensory awareness tools
- Mindfulness in nature
- Ceremony and ritual
- Wanders on the land
- Conversations with the natural world
- Basic experiential facilitation skills and framework
- Explicit support to incorporate tools into clinical settings and healing goals
- An understanding of how to ethically incorporate nature into your work with others in a variety of settings
June 14 – 18, 2023 (in the mountains near Boulder, CO)
Tuition: Reg Price ($1495); Early Bird Price ($1350) ends April 22, 2023
