Therapeutic Resourcing with Nature for Trauma-Informed Care

Research shows what we already know- that spending time in the natural world has incredible healing benefits for trauma and other symptoms of dysregulation, distress and dis-ease. We hear more and more about the benefits of forest bathing, vitamin D, snugging with animals, and fresh air on the nervous system and overall well-being- but what does that mean for therapy? And how do you include it in your current therapeutic practice and work with clients with trauma and dysregulation?

In this full day immersive workshop, we will look through a trauma and attachment informed lens and guide participants through ways to tap into their own intuition and instincts when working with clients and nature, as well as conceptualize how nature naturally fits into trauma models, including resourcing activities that are relevant to trauma models such as EMDR.

We will teach nature connection as part of stabilization and resourcing work with clients with a history of trauma, including complex, developmental trauma through orientation work, present moment awareness, creating positive states, and taking mindfulness activities outside into the natural world where clients get to learn how it FEELS to connect with mother earth- to experience being in new nervous system states that they may not have access to in an office setting.

Understanding the historical context of being a human in this domesticated world, we also take participants through nature-based experiments and interventions to help clinicians tune in to their own innate wisdom through intuition and instinct to trust their own inner compass, sothey can help partner with their own inherent nature and the natural world to guide clients in an earth-based, relational way.

This one-day training is held by 2 seasoned ecotherapists: Erin Henry of Rewild Therapy and Kimberly Rose of Colorado Ecotherapy Institute & Relational Rewilding Nature Guiding.