Deliver therapeutic outdoor experiences with confidence and professionalism

This training equips you to design and facilitate therapeutic outdoor experiences that fit your background, context and scope of practice.

It’s ideal if you’re seeking a comprehensive programme that meaningfully advances your professional aspirations. The course provides eight modules, covering foundational principles, programme design, facilitation skills, risk management, governance, contracting, case studies and specialist approaches.

You’ll also receive six live group webinars, one-to-one coaching, extensive and unique resources, and access to a private Fire Circle community group.

Course Details

Start date: 30 January 2026
Webinars:
 ONE: 30/01/25 (Welcome & Orientation)
TWO: 27/02/26
THREE: 27/03/26
FOUR: 24/04/26
FIVE: 29/05/26
SIX: 26/06/26
Time: 0800 NZDT / 90 mins
Coaching: Two bespoke one-to-one sessions / 60 mins
Modules: Eight online modules / at your own pace
End date: All resources remain available until 25 September 2026

  • Live Content

    One-to-one coaching and live group webinars.

  • Study Anytime

    Recorded content so you can watch again or catch-up.

  • Original Material

    Models, frameworks and examples from 25 years of hands-on professional practice.

  • Community

    Course discussion threads, public and private forums, and live drop-in sessions.

  • Extensive Resources

    Lovingly curated podcasts, videos, readings, templates and links.

  • Payment Options

    Up front or in instalments - it's up to you.

Learn to:

  • Define and describe different approaches to ecotherapy practice and how they relate to each other.

  • Communicate authentically about your work to engage clients, colleagues and funders.

  • Underpin your practice with practical theories and ideas from a diverse range of disciplines.

  • Design therapeutic outdoor programmes and projects using practical models and tools.

  • Facilitate transformative outdoor experiences using tried and tested frameworks and techniques.

  • Plan safe outdoor activities and assess and manage risk outdoors in real time.

  • Develop your own governance system in a profession that has no formal regulation.

  • Prepare and facilitate specific activities and practices.

  • Use a case study to inform your own practice including engaging clients, managing incoming and outgoing referrals, programme design, facilitation, logistics and evaluation.

  • Connect with other ecotherapy practitioners to get support, share ideas and feelings, find collaborators and develop best practice.

Included in the programme:

Yasmin Aschebrock / Clinical Psychologist, Aotearoa New Zealand

The course was very helpful in opening up possibilities for how I can use an ecotherapy approach in my clinical work as a psychologist. It was also extremely valuable personally, in helping me to navigate my way into a new phase in my life. I guess you could say the training was transformational!

Peter Wooding / Venture Scotland

I gained a massive amount of insight from this training both personally and professionally. I was profoundly moved by the process. I came away refreshed and inspired.

Jill Guppy / Youth Psychotherapist, UK

The course helped me to develop therapeutic work outdoors with young people. I have learnt so much about the process and how to develop and structure our outdoor sessions. I feel l have also learnt so much about how everything links up and all the connections between establishing a healthier planet in conjunction with healthier people.

Elizabeth Riches / Dol Fach Community Interest Company, Wales

Having recently completed this training, I feel I have stepped through a threshold; one which has transformed me, and how I contribute to our world.

Regan Stacey / The Forest Therapy School, USA

From terminology to concept to fields of study, I feel more confident in crafting a vision for my own offerings. I feel well on my way to the next steps and am richer for the learning.

Charlie Németh / Teacher, Hungary

This training programme has helped me to reach a deep resolve in my choices for the direction of my life and the work that I wish to do in the world.

Sandra Cunningham / Walking Coach, Scotland

To anyone who wants to understand what it really means to climb down from our human superiority and truly inhabit the world as nature intended – and lead others in doing so – I can’t recommend this training enough.

Julia Aplin / Upward Spiral, Canada

Thank you for the course! I really enjoyed it and it was very thought-provoking. I especially appreciated the perspectives and experiences that were so clearly articulated. The course has helped me to work towards framing and understanding my own work more clearly.

Margret Mennenga / Campaigner, WWF-Germany

Don´t hesitate. Just do it! I promise you that you will feel great and brave and you won´t be disappointed.

Janani Eswar / Growing in Nature, India

I work to connect children to nature in India and this course has helped me to build language and structure around my work to better communicate with others around me. I have also greatly benefited from the resources available which would be very hard for me to find elsewhere.

  • $2,495.00

    One-off payment/6 months access
    Price in New Zealand Dollars $NZD

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  • $420.00 x 6

    6 instalments/6 months access

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