7-Day Training + 4 Month Online
USA, Georgia – Just Love Forest November 2026
7 Day In Person
- Cohort 1782 Old Holland Rd, Lyerly, GA 30730 USA
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- November 2, 2026
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- November 8, 2026
4 Months Online
- December 2, 2026
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- March 31, 2027
- Enrollment Open
7-day In-person Training
In this training, you will learn:
- Be guided on Forest Therapy walks by your trainers
- Learn how to guide ANFT’s Standard Sequence – A Powerful approach to nature connection
- Guide your first Forest Therapy walk
- Sequencing forest therapy invitations for maximum impact and benefit
- The heart-centered Way of the Guide approach
- The Language for Relational Forest Therapy to help create powerful connections with self and nature
- Somatic techniques for embodied awareness
- Start developing and deepening your relationship with the land
- Trail awareness and safety -how to choose a forest therapy trail
- Facilitation skills that promote an open environment for group sharing
- Competency standards: what a Forest Therapy Guide should know and be able to do
- Practical exercises and explorations to consolidate your learning
About the Venue
Just Love Forest
Just Love Forest is 716 acres of Sacred Forest in the Appalachian foothills of Poetry, Georgia.
It’s a living, breathing community of humans and trees, joy and grief, silence and song.
The entire land is held in sacred stewardship, and your presence helps sustain this forest sanctuary for generations to come.
By joining us, you’re not only receiving a powerful ANFT training immersion, you’re directly supporting regenerative living, eco-spiritual care, and community-rooted healing.
Just Love Forest is 716 acres of Sacred Forest in the Appalachian foothills of Poetry, Georgia.
- Beautiful 30-foot gathering yurt for group circles and workshops
- Sustainable off grid solar power
- Indoor and outdoor kitchens with refrigeration
- Three Forest Therapy Trails (easy, moderate, and intensive)
- Two sacred outdoor fire circles
- Eight-circle stone labyrinth for walking meditation and ritual
- Exclusive gated access to the entire 716-acre property for full immersion
Lodging
- Deluxe Canvas Bell Glamp Tents with Tempur-Pedic queen beds: $950 +tax
- Smaller TeePee style Glamp Tents with Twin Beds: $790 +tax
This is a small private venue with limited accommodations, therefore it is not possible to accommodate additional family members, spouses, children, friends, or other guests who are not enrolled in the immersion training program. ONLY immersion participants can stay as guests at this venue. ALL immersion participants are required to stay onsite.
- Fresh towels and linens provided (guests make their own beds)
- Eco composting toilets and hot outdoor showers
- Municipal water and filtered drinking water
All guests are required to stay on property and no outside guests are permitted on grounds without prior approval.
Meals
Full-service plant-based meals are included with accommodation costs including gluten-free accommodations upon request
- 15 plant-based wholesome, seasonal plant-based meals (Monday Dinner through Sunday lunch)
- Prepared with love, intention, and locally sourced ingredients
- Designed to support deep inner work, rest, and communion with nature
- Tea, coffee, water, and/or snacks available throughout the day
Transportation
Lyerly, Georgia
- 90 minutes from Atlanta, Georgia
- 90 minutes from ATL airport (Atlanta, Georgia)
- 60 mins from Chattanooga airport (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
Schedule Details for the 7 Day in Person Training
Arrival
Start 3pm on Monday, November 2nd, 2026.
Departure
The program ends (after lunch) at 1 p.m. on November 8th, 2026.
General Notes
Most carriers work on the land. WiFi & Electricity is available.
Venue Policies:
- All guests are required to stay on property and no outside guests are permitted on grounds without prior approval.
- Pets, firearms, illicit drugs, vaping, and alcohol are not allowed on the premises. Smoking must be done discretely away from central guests areas.
- Covid & General Sickness Policy. We ask that all guests take proper precautions before arriving and disclose any pertinent health information to your group leader ahead of time and have health insurance coverage up to date. Just Love Forest reserves the right to ask you to leave if it is putting the staff and group in a harmful situation.
This is a small private venue with limited accommodations, therefore it is not possible to accommodate additional family members, spouses, children, friends, or other guests who are not enrolled in the immersion training program. ONLY immersion participants can stay as guests at this venue. ALL immersion participants are required to stay onsite.
4 Month Online
In this second part of the training, 4 months online you will:
- Consolidate the learning from the 7 day in person training
- Guide your practice walks
- Debrief your practice walks with the training team and your cohort colleagues
- Sequencing forest therapy invitations for maximum impact and benefit
- Getting to know your bioregion, its history, watershed, awarenesses and more
- Nature and forest therapy scientific research and knowledge
- Learn how to develop your guiding practice
- Continue to deepen your relationship with the land
- Practical exercises and explorations to deepen your guiding skills
The training is designed in a way that will gently guide you through all the steps and processes to integrate and deepen the learning in your head and in your body. Upon completion of this course you will be able to succesfully guide forest therapy walks within the framework of ANFT’s guide certification training.
Schedule for LIVE Online calls for 4 month training
Tuition
The tuition for the complete program that includes the 7 day in person training and the 4 month online program is 3600 (USD).
Payment plans are available on registration.
IMPORTANT: This price does not include lodging, meals nor transportation to the 7 day in person training.
Other costs to your training include payment for Wilderness First Aid training, which is required for Certification, and is provided by third parties. Prices range from $100 to $300.
Tuition figures are subject to change.
Training Team
- Christine Hoyer
- Tam Willey (they/them) is a certified forest therapy guide, trainer and mentor with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and founder of Toadstool Walks, a guiding practice based in Boston, Massachusetts. Tam trained with ANFT in 2017 as part of cohort 15 and began mentoring and training new guides shortly after. Tam is co-founder of Acorn Programs, a business and practice development program for guides seeking support in bridging the gap from training to building a guiding practice. Tam has been self-employed since 2005 and brings over 15 years of experience with marketing, promotion, website management, administrative organization, content creation, bookkeeping, tax-filing, and overall personal professionalism. Tam’s guiding practice is informed by their background as a local handy person, children’s woodworking instructor, custodian, skateboarder, musician, artist, mentor, and their queer and gender expansive lived experience, serving and uplifting LGBTQ Folks through BAGLY, The Theater Offensive’s True Colors, Black and Pink, and The Venture Out Project. Tam has guided forest therapy in collaboration with The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Mass Audubon, Peabody Essex Museum, Speak For The Trees, Boston Harbor Now and more.
- Christine Hoyer
- Christine Hoyer is a certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide based in Tennessee. She grew up exploring nature and national parks throughout the United States which lead to a career in wilderness management and over 17 years of trail experience. She was drawn to Nature and Forest Therapy as a way to deepen her own authentic connection to the natural world and holding that space for others to openly experience nature's gifts and benefits has become just as important. She stepped into the role as the advisor of the Trail Certification program for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy to support the expansion of the network of trails and trail experiences. She has been an active guide since 2019 and she also serves as a coach and apprentice trainer for guides in training. Her passion lies in the belief that everyone has the capacity to awaken, re-awaken, explore, and expand their own connection with the more-than-human-world by simply being present and tuning in to what is being offered.