Taking your coaching and therapy Outside

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
FOR THERAPISTS and coaches OF ALL DISCIPLINES

Course Outline

The focus of this Walk and Talk course is to learn to incorporate, integrate or adapt your style of therapy or coaching to working and walking outside. – Parks, rivers, coast and mountains.

The course benefits from multi- discipline participation, it’s interactive and discursive. We will learn from each other as well as gain insight into our greatest healer – nature herself. This course also provides an insight into Forest Bathing, what is known in Japan as Shinrin Yoku.

Hightlights Include
•  Understanding the broad application of walking therapy – including the business of it all.
•  Nature’s effect on Stress and Burnout.
•  Balancing our Screen Overload – how Nature can help in Digital Wellbeing.
•  Exploring Forest Bathing
•  Discovering the importance of Natural light and Earthing on our mood.
• How the power of metaphor in Nature can heal.

This is a half day workshop running from 10am – 2.00

UPDATE:  Online guide available for practitioners to learn this for themselves when In Person courses are not running (Winter).  Download HERE

Meanwhile our In Person event satisfies CPD requirements, it is a course for qualified therapists, coaches and health practitioners in any field, who wish to learn about waking therapy and incorporating Nature Therapy (also called Eco Therapy and Green Therapy) into their practice. •

• DATES and DETAILS:
  Date remaining for  2024 September 14th.
  
• Every course is aimed for the Saturday only.  Sunday is there, as a backup – in case the weather isn’t so suitable. (although miraculously that’s not ever happened).
• Contact us for other dates or to go on the waiting list.
  

MORE INFO ON THE-  IN REAL LIFE – HALF DAY COURSE

Walk and Talk
Learning to add an extra dynamic to your therapy or coaching business by expanding your learnings through incorporating our most innate healing – Nature. The focus of this course is to learn to adapt your style of practice for working outside. Parks, forests, rivers, coast, mountains.  City living and further afield.


Benefits for Your Business

Optimising, adapting and enhancing your current therapeutic practice by opening up and increasing revenue streams in a more healthy, congruent and cost free setting. Understanding the skills you have and how they transfer to working in nature.



Benefits for Your Client

Overall healthy improvement in both  Mind and Body.  For our purposes we’ll focus on reduction of anxiety, depression and the corresponding increase in confidence, mood and overall perspectives.  Your outside sessions act as both an unsaid illustration of wellbeing – talking moving more directly to feeling.

Detail

• • Set up
    Why working in Nature is so important.
    Adapting your skill base to work and practice in nature
    Different applications and titles used for Nature Therapy
    The NHS and Mind
    Social Prescribing
  • Discussions

    Combating the changing winds of technology in therapy VR, AI
    ADHD and Vitamin N
    Working with Adults and working with children
    Nature and Behavioural and Cognitive effects
    Phone down Face up – why connection is important
    Dealing with Anxiety, Overwhelm Depression and Stress
    Introduction to understanding Circadian Biology
  • Course work
    Walk and talk therapy – Introduction to Wonder Walking
    Forest Bathing
    Working with images and visualisations outside
    Use of metaphor in nature
    Application of free association
    How to deal with British weather
    Working in Urban areas
    Earthing and what it is
    Breathing and expanding your senses
    Mindfulness and mind body connection
    Natural EMDR
  • Where and When
    London Parks or By arrangement – UK and IRL Wide.
    8 persons per group max
    Pets Welcome
    
  • Management and More
    Pre attendance preparation sheet
    Post course support and supervision included.
    Certificate of participation : Nature Sense accreditation on completion of proof of learning exercise.
    Insurance and confidentiality issues
    Recommended reading supplied

•  Price –  £97 prior booking

or  – £115 on the day

What you’ll be able to do after this course.
See clients in parks, by the river, walks etc…

Who will be your ideal client
Those with Anxiety, Depression, Grief and overwhelm. Clients who want purpose and happiness in their life.  There will be some discussions towards ADHD if requested by the group.

Who will this suit

This is a course for therapist and their CPD for instance Counselling, CBT, Gestalt, Adlerian, Freudian, Jungian, Family, Hypnotherapy, NLP, Coaching,

Sports etc … this list is by no means exhaustive, please contact with your school of therapy so we can advise of suitability.

What this course is not  

Woo Woo – many people have become cynical or is it fearful when the word green is mentioned as if it’s very mention implies that the subject is somehow powered by unicorns. This is not the case. This course is not just about your continued learnings or professional development but also for your business investment. The outcome is a mutual benefit to you, your client and as a bonus utilising our amazing natural space.

According to Dr Richardson head of psychology at the University of Derby. “There is already research evidence that exposure to nature can reduce high blood pressure well as improve vitality and mood; benefit issues of mental wellbeing such as anxiety; and restore attention capacity and mental fatigue. But more than that, feeling a part of nature has been shown to significantly correlate with life satisfaction, vitality, meaningfulness, happiness, mindfulness, and lower cognitive anxiety. 
It doesn’t matter what your core therapy is, it can be taken outside”.

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📒 Suggested Reading on Nature Therapy and Forest Bathing 📚