7-Day Training + 4 Month Online
USA, New Hampshire – Woodbound Inn June 2026
7 Day In Person
- Cohort 247 Woodbound Rd, Rindge, NH 03461
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- June 13, 2026
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- June 19, 2026
4 Months Online
- July 7, 2026
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- October 20, 2026
- 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
Woodbound Inn
Located in the heart of the Monadnock Region in Southern New Hampshire, Woodbound Inn is a beautiful family owned property with a warm and cozy atmosphere and delicious restaurant and lounge. Just 1 hour from Manchester Airport and 1 hour and 45m from Boston Airport, its 76 acres are surrounded by eastern hemlock, white pine, beach, birch, and oak forest and a private lake beach. With both cabins on the lakefront, and quaint Inn and hotel style rooms, Woodbound sits just by Lake Contoocook with a spectacular view to Mount Monadnock. Woodbound is truly a magical place to spend Memorial Day Weekend holiday and for Forest Therapy. The land is just 10 minutes from Monadnock State Park and 20 minutes from Miller State Park and Rhododendron State Park. During free time participants can also enjoy the lake, canoeing and kayaking.
Lodging
LODGING
PRICING for 6 nights A lodging from Sunday June 13th until Thursday June 19th with all meals starting with dinner on Saturday and ending with lunch upon departure on Friday taxes included in the prices below.
Option 1: Queen Single – Private room with Queen bed and private bathroom. Rooms have internet, phone, TV and AC.
Option 2: Queen Double – Shared room with queen beds and private bathroom. Rooms have internet, phone, TV and AC. **PLEASE NOTE when booking this double room that the price is based on 2 separate people booking this room. If a second person does not book this room you will be asked to pay an additional $351 for this room since only one person will be occupying the room or you may switch to a single room if one is available.
Option 3: Twin Double – Shared room with two twin beds and private bathroom. This room is cozy but small. Rooms have internet, phone, TV and AC. **PLEASE NOTE when booking this double room that the price is based on 2 separate people booking this room. If a second person does not book this room you will be asked to pay an additional $428 for this room since only one person will be occupying the room or you may switch to a single room if one is available.
Option 4: Private Rustic Lakeview Cabin – Private cabin with King bed and private bathroom at lakefront or lakeview with fireplace sitting areas with bay window. No internet, phone or TV in the cabins. The cabins also have propane heat as well as mini fridges, microwaves and coffee makers.
Option 5: Shared Rustic Lakeview Cabin – A Private room and shared bathroom (with one other person) along the lake, with fireplace and sitting area overlooking the lake. No internet, phone or TV in the cabins. The cabins also have propane heat as well as mini fridges, microwaves and coffee makers. **PLEASE NOTE when booking this option that the price is based on a 2nd person booking this cabin. If a second person does not book this room you will be asked to pay an additional $492 for this room since only one person will be occupying the room or you may switch to a single cabin if one is available.
Meals
Food costs are included in the total fee. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or other special food needs, allergies, or restrictions can be accommodated.
Transportation
Airports:
Manchester Regional Airport, Manchester, NH
Travel time by car to Woodbound Inn is approximately 1 hour
Directions: Woodbound Inn to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport – Google Maps
Boston Logan Airport
Travel time by car to Woodbound Inn is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes
Directions: Woodbound Inn to Logan Airport (BOS), Boston, MA – Google Maps
Distance by car from other major cities:
1 hour and 50 minutes – Hartford, CT
3 hours and 15 minutes – Augusta, ME
4 hours – New York City, NY
Schedule Details for the 7 Day in Person Training
Arrival
Arrival: Saturday, June 13th, 2026
- Check-in is between 4-5pm
- Dinner 6-7
- Program begins with an Orientation circle 7-8:30pm
Departure
Departure: Friday June 19th, 2026
- Program ends by 1pm on Thursday June 11th.
- *If you are booking flights, please make sure your departing flight leaves no earlier than 5pm.
General Notes
Wifi is available in the main building as well in the additional buildings, however there is no internet, phone or TV in the cabins.
Venue Policies:
- 31 days or more prior to the start of your course you may request a full refund of your accommodations minus a $50 administrative fee.
- 30 days or less prior to the start of the immersion, refunds are no longer possible unless your rooming reservation is refilled, in which case you may request a refund minus a $100 administrative fee.
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
- Caitlin C. Williams
- Nadine Mazzola (she/her) is a senior ANFT trainer, certified forest therapy guide, and founder of New England Nature and Forest Therapy Consulting based in the Metro-West and Greater Boston area. Nadine trained with ANFT in 2015 as part of cohort 4 and she has been training and mentoring new guides, as well as running her own guiding practice for 10 years. Her work integrates forest therapy, expressive arts, somatics, and embodied leadership. She became a forest therapy guide following her own breast cancer diagnosis in 2013, a turning point that changed her career path and continues to inform her teaching, mentoring, and guiding practice. Nadine wrote, designed and self-published her award-winning book “Forest Bathing with Your Dog which thoughtfully weaves forest therapy with human–animal connection. As a breast cancer survivor, she brings lived experience and sensitivity to her work with people affected by cancer, as well as with a wide range of populations across wellness, education, healthcare, and organizational settings. An accredited Mindful Art Teacher with training in Expressive Arts, somatics, and embodied leadership, Nadine is known for her warm, invitational teaching style and her ability to create learning environments that are both grounded and creatively expansive. She prioritizes supporting guides in developing confidence in their own way of guiding, feeling grounded in the ANFT Relational Forest Therapy approach, and sharing her deep experience with the practice of forest therapy and running her own guiding business. Nadine maintains a strong interest in the evolving research base supporting nature and forest therapy and regularly integrates current science into her teaching. She offers a collection of continuing education classes that bridge experiential practice with evidence-informed frameworks. Nadine has been featured on PBS Windows to the Wild, ABC’s Chronicle, and in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine among others. With a background in business and marketing—and a former career as a professional billiards player competing on the WBBA tour—Nadine brings a unique blend of discipline, strategy, creativity, and heart to her role as an ANFT trainer. She is committed to supporting the growth of the forest therapy field through thoughtful education, mentorship, and embodied practice.
- Caitlin C. Williams
- Caitlin C. Williams brings more than two decades of experience in nature mentoring, human development, wildlife tracking, wilderness survival, environmental science, and naturalist skills. She works in partnership with organizations offering deep nature experiences, skills for development of an ecological self and tools for ecological restoration. Caitlin is Adjunct Faculty at Weaving Earth: Center for Relational Education. She has been a mentor and guide with ANFT since the first training in 2014.