Intro to Outdoor Ecotherapy for Mental Health Professionals (May 2025)
Fri, May 30
|Watertown
Are you a therapist who has thought about or experimented with working clinically outdoors, or has interest in learning more about ecotherapy and how it works? Do you find wholeness and healing for yourself when you are connected to nature? Then this is the workshop for you!
Time & Location
May 30, 2025, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Watertown, 9880 Swede Lake Rd, Watertown, MN 55388, USA
About the event
This workshop is designed for therapists and students (psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, or professional counselors) to improve their competency moving their therapy sessions outdoors from an ecotherapy perspective. A portion of this workshop will also directly address ethical issues and barriers to bringing therapy sessions outdoors and will include several experiential ecotherapy-based interventions to utilize with clients.
This workshop is being held entirely outdoors on private land at Recuperacres. This workshop will involve experiential participation in movement-based activities and will include light hiking spread throughout the day. Limited accommodations are available for moving from location to location on the property for those who need it. All registered participants will receive more detailed directions to Recuperacres and instructions on what to bring to the workshop. Recuperacres itself is a safe and welcoming outdoor space for people of all identities and backgrounds, permitted by Carver County as a private…