Our Trainers

Our experienced and international Training Team is at the core of what we do. Each trainer underwent a rigorous and extensive training process, to prepare themselves to deliver the highest quality of training to our students.

We take training guides very seriously. Our trainees deserve the best. We hold very high standards of excellence. Our trainers are not only very experienced forest therapy guides that have guided hundreds of walks in many different settings and for many different populations but they also embody the values of ANFT and the Way of the Guide.

Each year, the Trainers gather to connect, honor, recalibrate and strengthen their bonds even further.

What energizes our work is our love of nature; but also our sense of impending environmental catastrophe caused by global warming and Western Culture’s emphasis on unsustainable patterns of consumption. Our contribution to finding solutions to these problems is to help as many people as possible to develop meaningful relationships with nature.

The reality is that most people don’t spend much time in nature; and when we do, we are often distracted and don’t interact meaningfully with the other inhabitants of the forest. We agree with Jacques Cousteau that “people protect what they love.” Love of nature arises naturally when we come into a heartfelt, embodied relationship with it, a kind of relationship that is not characterized as much by “knowing the facts” as it is of our fundamental and innate kinship with all beings.