Nature Therapy Walks & Worskshops

Spending time in nature has been shown to improve your overall mood and wellbeing, while also increasing your cognitive function, creativity and clarity of mind. Being in relationship with the natural world supports a sense of belonging and opportunities to feel connected with your Self, others, and our more-than-human kin.

My guided nature therapy walks and workshops weave together my felt knowledge of the land through 30 years of wilderness experiences, wholistic mental health, Indigenous wisdom, Eastern philosophy, and Western Science. I am a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and Professional Interpretive Hiking Guide with a 40hrs Wilderness First Aid certification.

Corporate Nature Therapy Workshops

Corporate nature workshops provide your staff with natural spaces to regroup and rejuvenate. The wild landscapes offer a relational setting for team building, communication, creativity and connection. Forest bathing and nature therapy elements are included through invitations to connect with nature and each other, and is completed with a wild tea ceremony.

Contact me to curate the ideal nature retreat for your team.

Becoming a Good Relative

A land-based experiential workshop to explore and deepen your relationships with the land and Indigenous Peoples

Co-facilitated with Margaret McKeon kinshipguiding.ca

In this land-based experiential workshop, we explore how colonialism is an extended process of denying relationships, and how honouring relationships or “being a good relative” is the repair.

We offer a unique opportunity for you to engage in critical reflection while connecting with the land through a three-fold approach: (1) As forest therapy guides, we guide you through a series of invitations to slow down and become present, anchored in relational forest bathing. (2) We share stories, teachings and experiences grounded in our personal relationships and work with Indigenous communities and the land. (3) We interweave sharing and group discussion about the personal and systemic relationships that support us and what it means to be a good relative in our personal and work lives.

This workshop will deepen your understanding of:

how to engage in a relational practice with your guests/clients/patients/students;
how colonization and its systems disrupt your ability to be in right relationship; and
how Indigenous ethics of responsibility, respect, relevance and reciprocity and “Making Treaty” can guide your practice as a good relative.

One-on-one Nature Therapy Walks

If you are feeling overwhelmed and need some time away from the busyness of life, Nature Therapy can help. Nature Therapy is a land-based mental health approach that integrates the natural world involving mindful walking, mindful presence, and invitations to connect with your senses and the land through stillness, sensations and movement. Research has shown that Nature Therapy can improve mental and physical wellbeing by reducing stress, alleviating symptoms of anxiety, depression and pain, while enhancing self-awareness, creativity and clarity of mind.