The Fundamentals of Nature Based Therapy

An Immersive Introduction to Nature Based Therapy

Friday July 11th 2025
10:00am PT - 4:00pm PT
Stanley Park
Vancouver, BC

Are you looking for a more holistic approach to your work
practice that will benefit both yourself and the people you
are working with?

This innovative interactive 'in person' workshop may be for you!!!

Nature Based therapy (NBT) is an emerging field in both
complimentary therapies and holistic health treatment which has
been incorporated into the practice of many medical and mental
health professions as a complimentary means for treating a variety
of physical, emotional, and cognitive disorders.

Nature Based Therapy is an accredited modality through the International Institute of Complimentary Therapies (IICT). For more information on nature based therapy please visit www.naturebasedtherapy.com.au.

Topics covered:

• Holistic health model
• Nature as co-therapist
• Applying Nature Based Therapy to counselling and group therapy programs
• Nature based mindfulness and nature journaling
• Self-care for practitioners to avoid burnout/compassion fatigue

You’ll Learn:

• Learn the key concepts of Nature Based Therapy (NBT)
• Understand the holistic health model and apply to assessment tools
• Apply nature based interventions into professional and personal practice
• Write nature prescriptions for your clients.

Who is this training for?

• Mental Health Workers/Addiction specialists
• Occupational Therapists/Social Workers
• Psychologists/ Social & Community Service workers
• Health & Wellbeing Practitioners
• Teachers
• Plant Medicine Facilitators

You’ll Experience

• Immersive nature experience, small cohort, intentional space making
• Experiential programming
• Social prescribing concepts
• Hands on learning in nature arts, nature journaling, self care
• How to apply this to your life and your work

Whats Included:

• Resources: nature scripts, nature reflection cards and a nature journal to take home
• A delicious healthy lunch and snacks, tea and coffee
• Certificate of Attendance to use for CPD
• 20% discount voucher to be used towards further training in NBT

We are at a pivotal time - for both humanity and the natural world.

Our disconnect from nature could not be more acute. We are living as if we are disconnected from the natural world. Held captive by technology and consumption we are forgetting that we are intrinsically part of the natural world. We exist within nature and nature exists within us.

We must begin to relearn how to co-exist and thrive together within our fragile and resilient ecosystem.

Learning how to connect with nature and utilize it’s embodied intelligence, strength and resilience through practices of metaphor and integration has never been more important for our own health and those that we care for in our professional practices (counselling, aged care, nursing, social work, education, plant medicine work, etc.)

Join Nature Based Therapy Founder, Kit Kline, and NBT Accreditation graduate, Sheryl Hanula, a glorious day of diving deep into the Fundamentals of Nature Based Therapy in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.

Together we will experience the co-creation of community where we will explore narrative discussions and experiential processes that are based in reflective nature practices, that honour ancient wisdom practices that colonialism tried to eradicate. You will gain a deeper understanding of how nature is both the container and catalyst for innate and intelligent health. Everything that you will experience and learn can be applied to all aspects of your personal and professional life. Each participant will have the opportunity to share their experiences to further enhance the outcomes.

Surrounded by the beauty of Stanley park, nourished by healthy foods, like minded peers and experienced facilitators each day will offer calm, reflection, presence practices and instruction in nature reflections, nature based mindfulness, nature journaling and creative arts based interventions. You will be guided through evidence based processes that will facilitate the implementation and integration of new patterns of healthy behaviour in yourself and those that you work with.

To deepen and honour what we have learned, our two days together will close with a tea ceremony that is grounded in reflection and integration.

Nature Based Therapy is a powerful integrative practice that works to solidify profound personal changes, allowing for improvements in mental health and wellbeing.

Join us and take the leap into a biophilic way of living, working and being.

Day 1 Agenda

• 10:00am Embodied Meditation & Sharing Circle & What is Nature Based Therapy
• 11:00am Introduction to Early Childhood Experiences of Nature, Holistic Health Concepts
  rooted in Indigenous Worldviews, connecting to the Medicine Wheel & seasonal cycles
• noon 8 Dimensions of Wellness Practical Exercise - increasing self awareness through
  creativity
• 1:00pm Lunch Break - Go outside and connect with nature
• 2:00pm Nature Based Mindfulness engaging our 6 senses tuning into what our bodies
  are telling us. Connecting to our authenticity & intuition to be self empowered
• 2.30pm Nature Based Journaling practical exercise - observing the natural world and
  taking away teachings that can be applied to our personal situation or state of mind
• 3:30pm Sharing Circle using NB reflection cards Review of Key Takeaways
• 4:00pm Home

Your facilitators:

Kit Kline

Kit Kline was born in Vancouver, Canada and has Wampanoag, German, Scotish and Irish ancestry. She is a registered social worker and clinical supervisor with over 20 years of experience working as a counsellor specialising in mental wellbeing and addictions both within mainstream community health and Aboriginal healthcare services. Kit has a master’s degree in social work as well as a master’s degree in Aboriginal studies, a BA in Indigenous studies and post graduate qualifications in mental health, alcohol and other drugs, welfare studies, youth work, holistic healing and training and assessment. She is also a certified Compassionate Inquiry practitioner with a passion for social and environmental justice.

Kit is the Founder of Nature Based Therapy. Her approach consists of implementing nature-based interventions and takes a holistic approach to working with people supporting them to find and work with their authentic self. Kit lives on the surf coast of Victoria in Australia, where she moved to when she was 9, and has four children whom she enjoys spending time in nature with, traveling, and learning about different cultures.

Sheryl Hanula

Sheryl Hanula is a community, wellness and psychedelic advocate. Her works focus on the intersection of ecology and consciousness using therapeutic nature practices, embodied meditation and nature photography to facilitate holistic health. Both scholastically and professionally she has spent the past 20 years investigating the intersection of cultural diversity and impactful, connective experience.

As the Founder of Nourishmeant Radical Wellness, she creates transformative wellness and integration programs for people to experience a return to the home of their bodies, and the natural environment. She bridges the neuroscience of altered states with traditional wisdom, blending modern philosophy, nature-connectedness practices, and creative tools that inspire people to live more authentic, heart centred and purposeful lives

• Give yourself the gift of a weekend in nature - learning, connecting and awakening your awareness for the natural world.
• Learn concepts that will enhance and develop your professional practice.
• Develop the ability to utilize nature based practices to support your work in plant based medicine.
• Join together in an intentional community of thoughtful, caring, like minded folk.
• Register today - space is limited!

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