Online Introduction
to Ecotherapy
Online Introduction to Ecotherapy
Translate your love of nature into your professional work!
Are you experimenting with meeting people outdoors and wanting professional guidelines to practice confidently?
Online Introduction to Ecotherapy is a quick, affordable, self-paced course that offers essential concepts and practical guidelines for understanding and practicing Ecotherapy.
Inviting people to develop a relationship with the natural world is a huge gift!
In our age of social media and overuse of technology, people have forgotten the simple joys of meandering along a creek, gazing at the light through the trees, and listening to birdsong. Nature-inspired therapy offers tools to settle one’s nervous system, numerous self-care skills and insight into the imaginal and sacred parts of ourselves. Ecotherapy supports an authentic wholeness that comes from being in connection with the world larger than ourselves. It gives perspective, tranquility and the capacity to navigate the challenges of our world.
Ariana Candell, LMFT, Ecotherapist
Add knowledge and confidence to your work with the fundamentals of Ecotherapy
Acquire skills for practicing Ecotherapy:
– Expand and enliven your professional work with a wide range of nature-based interventions to use with children, teens and adults
– Deepen skills to bring people outdoors safely and ethically and to transition indoor clients to outdoors settings with confidence and ease
– Learn how to create well-developed, nature-inspired workshops and rituals
– Receive tools to support people experiencing difficult emotions regarding our climate crisis
– Hear the latest evidence-based studies and inspirational trends in the field from Ecotherapy experts
Experience personal benefits:
– Receive inspiration, insight, and peace by exploring new nature practices
– Feel a renewed commitment to bringing your passion for nature into your life and work
Licensed clinicians, interns, and students, counseling professionals, teachers, coaches, somatic practitioners, health professionals, spiritual directors, healers and anyone wanting to deepen their personal and professional connection with earth.
We welcome any people of any gender identity, culture, race, religion, sexual orientation, and economic circumstance
Easily integrate nature-based interventions directly into your work with practical training and step-by-step tips.
What participants say:
“The Online Ecotherapy Certificate program has far exceeded my expectations in its academic material, Ariana’s knowledge and expertise on the subject, and the ease of working together online. Professionally, this program is teaching me the skills to incorporate Nature-based clinical practices easily and beautifully into my current social work practice. Most of all, the value of connecting with like-minded professionals and the sharing of knowledge has been invaluable. On a personal level, this program is opening me up even more to the healing possibilities available to us through the natural world, and deepening even further my love and respect for this planet and all its life.”
~ Maria Valastro, MSW, Senior International Student Adviser | Brisbane, Australia
Ecotherapy Training Topics:
Class #1 FOUNDATIONS OF ECOTHERAPY
We welcome you into the world of nature-connection and ecotherapy with foundational, earth-honoring practices. We explore the modern fields of Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy, including indigenous, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ perspectives.
Class #2 CREATIVE INDOOR AND ONLINE ECOTHERAPY
We deepen our experience of being embedded in the web of an animate, more-than-human world. We learn a multitude of practical ways of translating Ecotherapy indoors and online.
Class #3 DEEPENING: NATURE & CULTURE
As we strengthen our roots in this work, we take a critical look at the supremacist systems that we inherited and which we are part of, and how they affect our treatment of Earth and each other. Materials include avoiding cultural appropriation and working outdoors with different populations.
Class #4 OUTDOOR ECOTHERAPY: PRACTICALITIES & GUIDELINES
We explore various elements of outdoor sessions, including practical considerations and thematic content, including logistical, legal, and ethical considerations.
Class #5 ECOTHERAPY & THE WORK THAT RECONNECTS
With the understanding that the dominant culture of Earth exploitation is unsustainable, we explore the Work That Reconnects as an expanded framework for understanding and attending to depression, anxiety, and grief.
Class #6 OUTDOOR GROUPS, WORKSHOPS & RITUALS: THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY
Outdoor workshops and rituals are powerful ways to reconnect with community and Earth. We learn practical guidelines to create culturally-sensitive outdoor workshops and rituals that cultivate community.
Additional Webinars and Materials Including:
- Integrating Joanna Macy’s “The Work that Reconnects” into Clinical Ecotherapy
- 12 Steps to Create a Successful Outdoor Ecotherapy Workshop
- Clinical Guidelines to Assess and Prepare Clients to Go Outside
- Considerations for Working with Outdoors with Marginalized Populations
- Ecotherapy and Addiction Recovery
- Bringing Expressive Arts into Ecotherapy
- Ecotherapy for Children and Teens
- Horticulture Therapy
- Animal-Assisted Therapy
We can’t wait for you to join us and others around the world in bringing this important work into our profession and to our clients!
PROGRAM DETAILS
- 14 Ecotherapy Training Webinars
- Current Ecotherapy articles
- Practical, step-by-step handouts
COST
Your price only: $225
