About the Training
Webinar Overview
In this experiential workshop, we explore the rich intersection of somatic awareness and nature-based therapy. Rooted in body-based practices and guided by the rhythms, metaphors, and relational wisdom of the natural world, this training invites mental health and wellness professionals to deepen their own embodied presence while learning to integrate these tools into client work skillfully.
You’ll be guided through experiential learning that explores how:
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Somatic tracking ↔ mirrors tracking nature’s cues (wind, stillness, birdcall)
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Pendulation ↔ aligns with natural rhythms (ebb/flow, night/day, tides/seasons)
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Grounding ↔ becomes literal grounding (barefoot walking, resting against a tree
Who Is This For?
This workshop is designed for therapists, coaches, somatic practitioners, outdoor facilitators, and healers interested in integrating body-based and ecological wisdom into their work. It is especially suited for those working with trauma, grief, anxiety, or disconnection from self and nature.
Key Learning Objectives
Through a dynamic blend of guided exercises, case-based learning, group reflection, and somatic-nature practices, you will:
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Cultivate somatic presence and attunement—in your own body, with your clients, and in relationship with the land.
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Understand the nervous system through an ecological lens, exploring how environmental and collective systems shape embodied experience.
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Learn nature-based interventions that support regulation, grounding, and resilience, especially for trauma and anxiety.
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Engage with nature as co-therapist, honoring the reciprocity between inner and outer landscapes.
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Reflect on ethical and culturally-aware practices when integrating nature into therapy.
Program Schedule
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM:
Introduction and Welcome
Welcome and Course Overview: Introduction to the course, instructor, and participants.
Icebreaker Activity: Brief interactive session to get to know each other.
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM:
Foundations of Integrating Somatic Wisdom with Nature Based Therapy Lecture: Overview
Discussion: How these principles and theories can inform our practices.
Experiential Exercises
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM: Break
11:10 AM - 12:45 PM:
Understand the nervous system through an ecological lens Lecture: Explore how environmental and collective systems shape embodied experience
Ethical and culturally-aware practices when integrating nature into therapy
Small Group Discussion Break Outs
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM:
Integrating Somatic Practices into Real-life Cases
Case Studies: Examples of successful nature-based interventions
2:30PM - 3:15 PM:
Experiential Activity- Solo time to practice with guidance
3:15 PM – 4 PM:
Sharing and meaning making in small and large groups.
Q&A Time
4- 4:30 PM: Summary & Closing
Upcoming Course
Course Date | Duration | Location | Availability |
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04/10/2026 | 7 Hours | Live Online | Good |
Discover how the body and the natural world speak the same language.
Starts Apr 10, 2026
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Instructor Highlights
Vanya Laporte
RCC
Vanya Laporte is a Registered Clinical Counsellor based on Vancouver Island outside the city of Victoria, Canada. With over 15 years of experience working with youth, families and adults, Vanya specializes in Nature-based Therapy and somatic modalities such as Internal Family Systems and Hakomi to offer alternative approaches to mental health services. Vanya is a supervisor and consultant for other therapists to support others to deepen their work. She has dedicated her career to facilitating outdoor nature programs and designing somatic methods that foster deep connections with nature.
Logistics & Registration
Prepare to engage with nature and deepen your therapeutic skills on this one-day live online training. Here's what participants need to know:
When: Friday, Apr 10, From 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Where: Live Online
Cost: $180 per person including CE credits / 15% Early bird discount until February 9 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.
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 6 NBCC credit hours.
This program consists of 6 NBCC clock hours of continuing education instruction. 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
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 6 general continuing education credits.