Re-wilding Eco Therapy

An eco-psychology training over one weekend and in the woods in Somerset

May 11th – 12th 2024

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With Jane Sanders & Deb Millar

 

Who is this course for?

This course is for those who want to develop a nature-based practice within their professional work with others; and for those pursuing their self-development in a way that includes an interconnected relationship with the earth.

It would be relevant for counsellors, health workers, psychotherapists, social workers, mentors, coaches, youth-workers, walking group leaders, teachers/educators and other professional therapists.

 

Over these two days our aim is to enable you to:

  • Gain confidence in working with others outside in nature
  • Incorporate the symbols, metaphors and cycles of nature as a mirror of your inner journey
  • Engage with others in exploring how to integrate eco-psychology into your everyday life and work
  • Strengthen the sense of interconnection and inter-being with the more than human world
The course will take place at Hallr Wood, a therapeutic woodland project near West Charlton, Somerset.

 

Course Content

  • A three-strand model of eco-psychology overview
  • Research on the benefits of working in nature
  • Nature as therapeutic container
  • Tracking our connection and disconnection in our relationship with nature
  • Reciprocal connection with nature, a two-way whole system process.
  • Eco-centric client assessment- indicators & contra-indicators for taking people outside
  • Embodied Relational connection
  • Theories behind the practice
  • Exploring the cycles of the seasons: and finding our place in these cycles
  • Eco-spirituality
  • Spiritual e­cology/deep ecology. Recognising and being with our feelings in relation to the earth & the challenges we and future generations face in the changing times and collective movement.
  • Working creatively & playfully in the landscape
  • Practical essentials i.e. insurance – contracting, health and safety, boundary issues etc.
  • Aversions and phobias- innocence and vulnerability.
  • Deep listening to nature, an inner stilling to deepening connection. Becoming the woods
  • Can nature provide the answers?
  • Skills practice
  • Eco-therapy indoors and outdoors.

 

Booking Information

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The cost of the course is £185.

This cost includes a vegan soup and teas but please bring anything else you would like to eat.

A £80 deposit secures your place.

This is a small group and we expect it to fill quickly.

There is optional, bring your own breakfast, wild camping at the woods in Somerton, by donation.

 

 
About us

Jane Sanders has been a Core Process Psychotherapist since 1990. She first came across eco-psychology & deep ecology in the 1980’s reading John Seed and Joanna Macy and eventually training as a ‘Work that Reconnects facilitator. She has been teaching eco-psychology on the Sweet Track counselling training for the last 8 years and is a member of ‘Wisdom Tree’ a group of facilitators working mainly from Hazel Hill Wood Education Centre.

Deb Millar is a founder of an educational charity www.wilderwoods.org She has been running long term therapeutic forest school based programmes at Hallr Wood since 2008, with a strong focus on secondary aged young people, many with additional needs. Since 2016 she has also been working with young adults with autism on a Growing for Well Being Project near Baltonsborough.

Rich Sutton  has been involved in counselling and group work  for nearly 20 years. He has now turned his hand to support the next generation of therapists teaching counselling at Sweet Track Counselling training in Glastonbury. He has an outdoor counselling practice seeing clients at Hallr wood.

 

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