Integrative Forest Therapy Practitioner Training

Integrative Forest Therapy Practitioner Training

This training was developed in collaboration with MIND Hillingdon UK.

Certificate- Blended Online Training with Nature Immersion Option

Jointly certified by MIND Hillingdon UK and Nádúr, this training is suitable for allied health and social care professionals, mental health practitioners, environmental professionals, foresters, creative practitioners, academics, and wellness practitioners. This practitioner level works with individuals experiencing psychological distress, mild, or moderate mental health difficulties and takes place over three and a half months. This is a 6-month blended online training programme with four weeks of intensive training and 5 months of mentored practice. Practitioners who do not have specific mental health training must undertake a 2 Day Mental Health First Aid Training and must also undertake an outdoor first aid training.

 There is an option of a 3-day nature immersion training. Please see current trainings for further details.

This training addresses the following areas:

·         Integrative health and wellbeing
·         Mental health literacy
·         Nature-based needs assessment
·         Design, delivery, and evaluation of Integrative Forest Therapy programmes
·         The Nádúr process model
·         The Nádúr manualised 12-week Integrative Forest Therapy intervention
·         Working with specific populations across a life stage model
·         Groupwork facilitation
·         Forest medicine and site selection
·         Sensory awareness and embodiment
·         Ecogrief

The World Bank Atlas Method is applied to the cost of this training:

Higher income countries: €2300
Lower middle income countries: €2100
Lower income countries €1900

Currently we are only offering this training in English but we hope to offer it in other languages soon.