Deliver therapeutic outdoor experiences as a professional practitioner.

This training programme is ideal if you want comprehensive practical training that will boost your professional aspirations. It includes eight short courses, taking you from the basic foundations through design and facilitation and on to risk management, governance, contracting, case studies, and specialist practices. 

The programme includes podcasts, videos, downloadable readings, one-to-one coaching, live group webinars (recorded to watch again/later), and lifetime access to the Fire Circle community forum. 

This training is for anyone interested in ecotherapy, including psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, outdoor leaders, rangers, teachers, artists, health practitioners, academics and activists. 

The training is evidenced-based and built on over 25 years of research and hands-on professional practice. 

Live webinars are scheduled to be accessible in the maximum range of time zones. To ensure the best experience, each cohort is limited to 12 people. Instalment payment options are available.

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.

  • Flexible Study

    Recorded content so you can study whenever you like.

  • Original Material

    Original models, frameworks and case studies based on 25 years of research and professional practice.

  • Live Content

    One-to-one coaching support and live group webinars.

  • Hands-on Approach

    The most practical, accessible and versatile ecotherapy training available.

  • Community

    Discussion forums, a peer community forum and live drop-in sessions.

  • Payment Options

    All training programmes offer up-front or instalment payment options.

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.