About the Training
Overview
This workshop explores the intersection of positive psychology, resilience training, neuroscience, and nature-informed therapy to enhance your professional practice and participant well-being. Positive psychology, the scientific study of what makes life worth living, emphasizes strengths, virtues, and psychological resources that support flourishing. When paired with the healing properties of the natural world, these approaches create powerful opportunities for growth and transformation.
Participants will examine key concepts including:
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Post-Traumatic Growth: understanding how individuals can evolve through adversity and how nature-based practices can facilitate this process.
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The Upside of Stress: reframing stress as a potential catalyst for resilience and meaning-making, supported by research in neuroscience and resilience training.
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Authenticity: helping participants align with values and identity, drawing on nature metaphors to foster self-acceptance and congruence.
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Psychological Resources: cultivating gratitude, awe, hope, and other internal strengths that buffer against distress and support healing.
Through experiential activities, case applications, and evidence-based interventions, participants will learn how to integrate these concepts into a variety of practices. This training highlights how combining nature’s wisdom with positive psychology and neuroscience can provide clinicians with practical tools to support resilience, emotional regulation, and long-term flourishing in diverse populations.
This training is ideal for helping and healing professionals such as Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, School Administrators, Teachers/School-Based Personnel, Environmental Educators, and Health Care Staff.
Key Learning Objectives
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Define key principles of positive psychology, including the PERMA model, and explain how they relate to clinical outcomes in mental health.
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Describe current neuroscience findings on how nature exposure supports stress regulation, emotional balance, and resilience.
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Explain the concept of post-traumatic growth and identify at least two nature-informed interventions that can facilitate growth after adversity.
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Discuss research on the upside of stress and evaluate strategies for reframing stress as a potential catalyst for resilience and meaning-making.
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Identify methods to cultivate authenticity and strengthen clients’ psychological resources (e.g., gratitude, awe, hope) through nature-informed and positive psychology practices.
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Apply at least three experiential interventions that integrate positive psychology, resilience training, and nature-based approaches to enhance well-being and flourishing in a variety of settings.
Instructor Highlights
Heidi Schreiber-Pan
Ph.D., LCPC
Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan is a renowned expert in Nature-Informed Therapy, with over two decades of pioneering work in integrating ecological principles into psychological practice. Her academic rigor, exemplified by a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, underpins her innovative BioPsychoSocial-Spiritual Model of Well-being. Author of the acclaimed book "Taming the Anxious Mind: A Guidebook to Relieve Stress & Anxiety" and "The Outside Within: Stories of nature's role in psychological well-being". Dr. Schreiber-Pan is also the founder of the Nature Informed Therapy Center. An impassioned educator and nature therapist, her work not only advances mental health but also underscores the vital role of environmental stewardship in public well-being.
Logistics & Registration
When: November 13, 2026, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm EST
Where: Live Online
Cost: $90 per person including CE credits / 15% Early bird discount until September 14 with code EBAT15
Don't need CE's? Take $20 off with booking code ADV20
25% off for students with booking code STUDENTADV25
Scholarship Available: Limited need-based scholarship available. Apply here.
Preliminary Schedule
9:30 – 9:50 (20 min)
Welcome, Overview, Experiential #1
9:50 – 10:30 (40 min)
Foundations: Positive Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychological Resources
10:30 – 10:45 (15 min)
Break #1
10:45 – 11:15 (30 min)
The Upside of Stress – Teaching + Breakout Group
11:15 – 11:45 (30 min)
Post-Traumatic Growth – Teaching + Experiential #2
11:45 – 12:00 (15 min)
Break #2
12:00 – 12:30 (30 min)
Authenticity & Self-Alignment – Teaching + Creative Activity
12:30 – 12:55 (25 min)
Integration & Clinical Applications – Reflection
12:55 – 1:00 (5 min)
Closing Reflection
CE Details
Center for Nature Informed Therapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7473. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Nature Informed Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Nature Informed Attachment & Trauma Therapy Training course will receive 3 NBCC credit hours.
The Center for Nature Informed Therapy, Provider 2022, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 9, 2025-July 9, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 general continuing education credits.
The Center for Nature Informed Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
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