Grief & Nature Traing: Grief to Gratitude

Grief & Nature Online Training is an advanced, skills-focused continuing education course for therapists and helping professionals who want to deepen their grief counseling practice through nature-informed therapy. Grounded in ecopsychology and biophilia, this training shows you how to use the natural world as a steady co-regulator, meaning-maker, and source of therapeutic metaphor—so clients can move through loss with greater compassion, embodiment, and resilience.

You’ll explore foundational grief frameworks (including attachment theory, Kübler-Ross reframed as a non-linear cycle, and post-loss identity), and learn how to translate theory into practical, nature-based interventions that work in telehealth, office-based sessions, and outdoor clinical settings.

This course is rich with experiential methods you can ethically adapt for clients, including:

• “Ten Loves” (a powerful, guided letting-go and values-based grief exercise)

• Using nature for ritual and transition (e.g., selecting a meaningful object and creating a grief ritual in a natural setting)

• Nature as role model and co-teacher (seasonality, letting go, renewal)

• Nature as messenger and reflection practice (photo-based “grief journey” prompts)

• Clinical support for prolonged grief disorder (assessment red flags, evidence-informed approaches, and staged reconnection)

Designed for counselors, social workers, nurses, educators, coaches, and pastoral care providers, the format blends teaching, discussion, and applied exercises so you leave with tools you can use immediately.