Live monthly group meetings to support your professional practice.

These informal 90-minute supervision sessions provide an opportunity to support ourselves and each other in this diverse professional field. They are for anyone currently practicing in any form of outdoor-based therapy, and for those interesting in developing a practice or programme.

Working from actual scenarios from our own real-world personal and professional experiences we explore challenges like: 

  • managing risk;
  • creating boundaries;
  • working with projections and unhealthy coping mechanisms;
  • ecological anxiety;
  • safeguarding; 
  • designing activities; 
  • activism as healing;
  • equipment choice;
  • dealing with bad weather, challenging conditions and outdoor emergencies.


These sessions will help you make your work safe, effective and deeply rewarding for both you and our clients. Maximum 10 participants per group.

Session Times

Sessions take place at 0800 am (NZST - GMT+12) on the last Friday of every month. 

If this time does not work in your time zone, please get in touch.

If you are a Professional Member of ecoSelf LEARNING, monthly supervision is included in your plan.

Supervisor

David Key

Dave co-led the post-graduate ecopsychology programme at the University of Strathclyde for seven years. He also taught ecopsychology at Schumacher College and as a lecturer at Universities including Edinburgh, Stirling, Plymouth, Exeter, Anglia Ruskin, and Ashridge Business School.

Dave holds an MSc (Dist.) in Human Ecology and is a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology. He has over 25 years of practical experience facilitating transformative and therapeutic outdoor experiences, and is an internationally qualified outdoor leader. He has published numerous papers, articles and chapters. His first book, 'Ecotherapy: A Field Guide' was published in 2023.

Membership Options

  • $95.00 / month

    ENROL

  • $995.00 / year

    Annual Membership (save $180)

    ENROL