Healing Trails - 2025

Service Description

Unlock the profound connection between healing and the natural world in this intensive backpacking journey. 🌟Event Highlights: 1. From Grief to Gratitude: Immerse in the therapeutic relationship with nature to embrace and navigate change. 2. Learn & Reflect: - Explore your own relationship with the environment. - Dive into discussions, presentations, and practical applications. 3. Enhance Your Toolkit: - Understand bereavement counseling and the nuances of human grief. - Grasp core principles of nature-informed therapy. - Discover practical interventions for those dealing with loss. 4. Backpacking Adventure: - Refreshing 5-7 mile hikes each morning. - Experiential grief counseling sessions in the afternoon. - 6 days, 5 nights of nature-infused learning (Sunday to Friday). 💡 Learning Objectives: - Core Principles of Nature-Informed Therapy - The Human Grief Response, including complicated grief - Non-death-related loss and disenfranchised grief - Attachment Theory and its role in grieving (Bowlby) - The Five Stages of Loss (Kübler-Ross) - Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning - Practical tools and interventions for immediate use - Guidelines for grief counseling and supporting special populations (including children and adolescents) - Personal reflection on your own loss history and how it shapes your work 🎒 Backpacking Highlights: - Seminars on lightweight gear, food planning, and navigation. - Limited to just 8 participants for an intimate experience. - Gear rentals available. - Meals provided (Vegetarian options available).