Nature Therapy Workshop
Tools and Perspectives to Support the Ways You Can Work with Others Outdoors
An All-Day Workshop for Wellness Professionals, Guides, and Teachers
Working with Nature has profound positive impacts on the lives of both clients and practitioners. This workshop is intended to empower, broaden, and deepen the ways you can work with people outdoors. Whether you have never worked with people outdoors or have been doing so for a long time, this workshop will offer unique perspectives and tools that will enrich your work.
The intention of this workshop is to strengthen and support the work of practitioners in our community. After a lifetime of Nature connection practices and guiding, over a decade of working as a counselor outdoors, and many years of professionally consulting others, I hope to consolidate and address some of the core themes and most common questions that come up for many professionals who work outdoors. The unique set of tools and perspectives that will be offered are intended to be adaptable to your own personal practice and to a variety of clients.
Topics will include:
Working through impediments for both clients and practitioners to working outdoors
Somatic perspectives and tools for Nature connection
Sensory awareness practices and their relationship to the neurobiology- and how that can be helpful
Ways to approach ethical considerations
Mindfulness techniques in an outdoor context
Intro to working with connection and attachment in Nature
Intro to trauma resolution and collective liberation in Nature
Group Consultation/ Q & A time
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Sliding scale $150-$225
Scholarships available for those in need- If the cost is prohibitive, please ask
Sunday, July 13th
9:30am-5:00pm
Bellingham, WA
Some Logistics:
There will be a lunch break from 12:30-2:00pm. Options to eat locally or stay and eat on the land.
This will be a relatively small group of 10-16 people
The workshop will be at 2582 N Shore Rd (near The Fork Restaurant on Northshore Rd.) It will be outdoors with access to walking trails, woods, field, and a creek. Accessibility considerations include walking on uneven terrain and potentially off-trail. Rustic amenities are available.
Those attending will be invited to email any of your group consultation questions ahead of time.
If you are interested or have any further questions, please email matthew@truenaturecounseling.com
If you are interested, but can’t make this date, please email me and I will put you on a a mailing list for future offerings