An introduction to outdoor therapy - online workshop

This is the online version of my popular Introduction to Outdoor Therapy workshop. The benefits of the online workshop are that you can participate from anywhere and that it'll be recorded (via Zoom) for you to re-watch at any time.

The workshop will cover: ethical considerations; safety; privacy; risk assessment; route planning; how to conduct an outdoor therapy session; opening and closing of an outdoor therapy session; how to hold space outdoors; working outdoors vs. working in controlled environments.

We will also look at appropriate techniques, tools and how to help the client utilise the environment to facilitate impactful, meaningful and lasting change.

There will be a combination of individual and group work, with time for quiet contemplation, journalling prompts, exploring the use of metaphors and to see how we - as practitioners - relate to the landscape, ways we can offer this to our clients and how this can translate to effective, competent therapeutic work.

Who is this workshop for?

Anyone with an interest in working therapeutically outdoors or anyone with a general interest in the outdoors that would like to explore this further and/or counsellors, holistic therapists, mental health practitioners, psychotherapists, social workers, therapists and anyone working with clients in a helping role who might want to introduce an outdoor element.