I see you, dear helper, itching to leave your studio and office.
I see you, dear helper, wanting to step away from the confines of walls and telehealth screens.
I see you, dear helper, exploring new ways to support those you work with.
Let’s get you and your clients outdoors.
In this 5 week, live online course, we will lift the veil to discover how we, as facilitators, can work in deep, intentional and ethical ways to create meaningful experiences for our clients when working with the natural world.
Weaving innovative ideas, theory, science, activities, and concrete examples, this course is designed for folks trained in counselling, social work, forest therapy, support work, certified coaching, psychotherapy, or outdoor education.
Teaching you the structure you need to cultivate safe, reciprocal and conscientious spaces, learn practical pointers for how to partner with the natural world, grounded in Indigenous teachings from Turtle Island, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the latest in eco-psychology and environmental arts therapy.
What You’ll Learn
Core Principles for Intentional Connection & Partnership with the Natural World
We’ll explore core principles that are immensely transformative in cultivating a personal practice of intentionally connecting to and partnering with the land. These will serve as the solid warp of a weave that gives us the structure to hold us in place as we work with the natural world.
Conscious Creation of the Safe Container for Your Clients
The Triple Spiral Framework designed by Sarah West teaches us how a facilitator can develop the “safe frame” or “container” to hold meaningful experiences with the natural world. This creates a foundation of depth and safety prior to and while facilitating a session with the land and our clients.
You’ll Receive
5 online, live courses with access to class recordings
1 hour personalized, professional development coaching session
Group supported explorations for each practitioner to share their experiences and vision of their practice
Curated reading list for further therapeutic explorations with the natural world
List of guided activities to share with clients
List of practical “must have” tools for being out on the land
This training is for you if:
You identify as a sensitized educator or therapeutic practitioner engaged in, or have a willingness to engage in, ecological and psychology oriented training, and possess a heightened sense of what it means to be trauma-informed.
Desire to confidently and safely guide connections between your clients and the natural world.
Orient around the concept of reciprocity and cultivating an active relationship with the land, exploring our relationship to place, Indigenous territory, and the complexity of colonial layers impacting the land we work with.
Would like to connect in a community of other eco-oriented wellness practitioners and land-based educators in a live, online format to learn from each other.
Your Investment
$889 CAD + GST
Wednesdays, October 18 - November 15, 2023
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. PST
This course requires a 20 hour investment. Your time invested includes 5, two hour classes, personal work with the land between classes, and preparation for how you’d like to share you practice/vision for your work with fellow course participants.
Praise about the course
“Sarah is a wise, generous facilitator who emulates beautifully the principles and practices of Reciprocity Coaching. This Environmental Arts Therapy training has not only helped deepen my own relationship with the land but also given me the tools & confidence to share this approach with my clients. I highly recommend Sarah and her Triple Spiral Framework practitioner training.”
“Awesome to have a short course with so much information packed in, which has been amazing. It feels like the perfect amount of time. It’s very intentionally planned, and flows between each session. You’re able to pack in so much rich information and be concise. Your presence has been so gentle, guiding.”
“My experience in the training really supported me in creating a stronger container for the work I’ve already been doing as a therapist… Sarah and the framework she’s created has helped to provide and support me in developing more of my own roots, and a framework for the work I’ve been doing, deepening my intentions for this work.”
“You trust in our instincts and our guides, making us proactive in what we’ve learned, not just passive consumers of this knowledge. Thank you for this.”
“Working with people in an environmental arts therapy and land based healing modality is a very potent and exciting way to support people to deepen their relationship with nature in a meaningful and authentic way, and is needed now more than ever. The Triple Spiral Framework is a practical and beautiful tool for therapists to use to feel confident and safe guiding clients out of the studio and into nature for creative, therapeutic and healing work to be done.”