Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT)

Nature, Relationships and Wellbeing Online Forum

October 18 - 20, 2024

3-Day Free Online Summit

Celebrating 10 years of opening the doors to meaningful relationships for all beings we invite you to join our community in inquiry around nature, relationships and wellbeing.

Meet The Speakers

We will be announcing more speakers daily

Alicia Frizzle

Alicia, a Forest Therapy Guide, brings a unique mix of Nature and Forest Therapy, Life Coaching, Med...

Integrating Nature Connection in Education
Amanda Yik

Amanda Yik is the Founder of Shinrin Yoku Hong Kong, a Trainer with the Association of Nature and Fo...

How Forest Therapy Fosters Inner Development - The Missing Piece in Sustainability
Amos Clifford

Amos' current focus is on building scalable systems to support ANFT's training, membership, and trai...

Host
Beata Szablics

An executive and business advisor with robust track record of accomplishments worldwide in the touri...

Nature and Forest Therapy Programs in Tourism – Our Stories from the Field
Ben Page

Ben was trained in cohort 2 and has trained guides from the following cohorts: 5, 11, 16, 18, 19, 22...

Beyond Doing, Beyond Understanding: A World Without Separation
Blanca Zegers Larrain

Blanca Zegers Larraín is Occupational Therapist graduated from Universidad Mayor in 2009, with over ...

Terrestrial ecosystem interaction as treatment strategy for mental health and rehabilitation in community health. Experience from Chile
Courtney Crim

Courtney Crim is an Associate Professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Her teaching inclu...

Connecting Students with Nature: Exploring a University Course that Impacts Students' Well-Being through Time Outdoors
Dagna Gmitrowicz

Dagna Gmitrowicz is a therapist, Forest Therapy Guide (ANFT, 2022), and visual artist. She specializ...

Science and Practice of Nature as Medicine
Louise Livingstone

In the early 1990s, Dr Louise Livingstone succumbed to viral myocarditis. This enlarged her heart le...

Engaging the Heart Sense in Nature
Dr Susan Abookire

Susan Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH, FACP, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, a practici...

Science and Practice of Nature as Medicine
Dr. Qing Li

Clinical Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medic...

Effects of Forest Bathing/Shinrin-Yoku/Forest Therapy on Mental Health
Giovanna Raineri

Giovanna Raineri was born and raised in Chile, her love for nature led her to work for a travel comp...

Nature and Forest Therapy Programs in Tourism – Our Stories from the Field
Holly Jo Walters

Holly Jo serves as the Program Director for the Trails, Spaces & Places (TSP) Certification Prog...

Certified Forest Therapy Trails: Enhancing Human and Environmental Well-being through Certification
Laura Allen

Laura Allen is a Professor in the Department of Education at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. ...

Connecting Students with Nature: Exploring a University Course that Impacts Students' Well-Being through Time Outdoors
Makiko Sugishita

A representative of KaleidoForest Inc., Makiko Sugishita based in Yakushima, is the first dual-certi...

The world of AWAI; Reciprocal relationship with nature in Japan
Manuela Siegfried

Manuela is responsible for the direction of all training activities for ANFT.

Host
Marcin Urbaniak

Marcin Urbaniak is an influential figure in the field of advocacy for individuals with disabilities ...

Accessible Forest - Looking Beyond Barriers
Margaret Hansen

Margaret Hansen is a committed researcher, educator and writer. She is a Professor Emerita from the ...

The Inter-relationship Between Shinrin-yoku 森林 / Nature Therapy and Spirituality 概念
Natalia Laverde-Bohorquez

Natalia Laverde-Bohorquez is a conceptual photographer, social communicator and anthropologist. She ...

La Ilusión Nature Preserve. Forest Therapy applied to an ecosystem restoration process in the Colombian High Andes
Summer Crider

Summer Crider, the founder of "The Giving Cypress,” a Nature and Forest Therapy guiding business, an...

Access Intimacy in Nature: Assessing Care through Direct Experiences
Toby Bloom

Toby Bloom is the Forest Service National Program Manager for Tourism and Interpretation. Her portfo...

The intersection of Public Health and Public Lands - Using America's National Forests as Healing Spaces
Yasuhiro Kobayashi

Founder of Ecological Memes. Eco-systemic catalyst. Regenerative facilitator. After engaged in empow...

The world of AWAI; Reciprocal relationship with nature in Japan

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For millions of years we have roamed this earth as a community and in intimate relationship with all beings.

Somewhere along the way these relationships have become severed and we have become separate from the world and from each other.

How can we remember what it feels like to live in reciprocity with all beings?

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