Where nature connection
meets professional practice
The Academy of Applied Forest Therapy explores how relational nature practice can support wellbeing across healthcare, education, leadership, coaching, community development, and other professional fields.
Through specialized trainings and advanced learning pathways, this academy helps practitioners integrate forest therapy principles into real-world applications that respond to the growing challenges of stress, disconnection, burnout, and social fragmentation.
From Nature as Medicine to somatic practice, youth work, facilitation, and professional development, the Academy of Applied Forest Therapy bridges relational practice with practical impact in communities and organizations worldwide.
Explore Our Programs
Nature as Medicine
Explore the growing connection between nature and healthcare through evidence-informed approaches that support wellbeing, prevention, and recovery.
- For healthcare professionals and practitioners looking to integrate nature into clinical or wellbeing practice.
- In-Person + Online
Council of Waters and Trees
A four-day gathering weaves Forest Therapy, the Way of Council, and Aloha Ropes
- For trained forest therapy guides, practitioners, and others called to deepen their relational practice with the more-than-human world.
- In-Person
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Your Work, Made Visible
A certified training to become a Forest Therapy Guide. English, Spanish and ASL – American Sign Language.
- For Forest Therapy guides who want their work to be found by the people who need it, and who'd rather create opportunities than wait for them.
- Self Paced - Online
Guiding Business Success
A self-paced course in five modules on building steady income through partnerships with organizations and well-structured walk series, with scripts, templates, and a proven five-step process you can nature-and-forest-therapy-anft-30547 and use.
- For certified guides who can guide well but want the walks to fill and the income to steady.
- Self Paced - Online
Forest Therapy Guiding in Winter and Cold Weather
A self-paced course that moves through the three phases of the Forest Therapy Journey from a cold weather lens.
- For certified Forest Therapy guides who want to keep guiding through the colder months.
- Self Paced - Online
Somatic Work in Partnership with Nature
A self-paced course in six modules exploring how relational forest therapy works as a generative somatic practice, with explanation and experiential activity throughout.
- For somatic practitioners, mental health and medical professionals, and Forest Therapy guides who want to understand where these two methodologies meet..
- Self Paced - Online
Forest Therapy Guiding for Children & Youth
A self-paced course that walks back through the ANFT Standard Sequence, module by module, exploring what shifts when the people on your walk are children and youth.
- For certified Forest Therapy guides who want to guide young people in schools, camps, family programs, and public walks where children come along.
- Self Paced - Online
Subtleties of Facilitating Circle in Forest Therapy
A self-directed video course on the finer craft of circle: omni-partiality, the pause, body language, group dynamics, and what to do when something difficult arrives.
- For Forest Therapy and Forest Bathing guides who want to feel easeful holding sharing and deep listening, whatever the group brings.
- Self Paced - Online
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