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GUIDED

FOREST THERAPY WALKS

I will begin holding guided walks in May, after I receive certification. In the interim, I am holding practice walks. If you'd like to join one of these practice walks, or  

if you would like me to add your name to my email list for future walks, please send your name, phone #, & email address to:

julie@wellspringwritingworkshops.com

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FOREST THERAPY GUIDE CERTIFICATION

Julie is currently training to become a

Certified Forest Therapy Guide.

 The training consists of 6 months of online study on Zoom, then 4 days of in-person forest immersion.

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Julie is studying with the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides & Programs. ANFT believes that:

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"Forest therapy is not an extractive process, where we treat forests as a 'resource' from which we extract well being for humans. Instead, it is a deeply relational practice, characterized by a sense of loving and tender connection...

 

Forest therapy is about creating relationship between humans and the more-than-human world, in which the relationship itself becomes a field of healing and a source of joyful wellbeing."

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Julie currently leads practice walks, and should receive her certification as a Forest Therapy Guide at the end of May, 2025. 

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  • Most people live in a world that has been “tamed” and is starved of heart-centered and embodied knowledge.

  • Most people have been conditioned to think of nature as separate from themselves, which has caused harm to humans and the More-Than-Human World. The More-Than-Human World has its own kind of wisdom and the ability to sense and feel, and these offer the possibility of a kind of communication between people and nature.

  • There are specific ways of speaking and guiding that are very effective at helping people develop authentic relationships with the More-Than-Human World.

  • When people come into authentic relationship with nature, good things are likely to happen.

  • Authentic relationships are rooted in reciprocity; in relationship, we know and are known by other beings.

  • Guiding is a Way, an archetypal path or vocation that is important for the time we live in.

  • Guides can learn how to partner with the More-Than-Human World, and in doing so, make space for the Forest to be the therapist.

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