Local, in-person workshops offered Fall, 2024.

These retreats are not offered through Minneapolis Nature-Based Therapy, but through some colleagues in the field who also work with nature as a therapeutic partner.  

They are offering a heart and consciousness-expanding opportunity in nature and community, The Nature of Wholeness. This series of retreats will delve into ancient wisdom tools for self-mastery and connection reflecting the intelligence of nature outside and inside of us. The Introduction to this series, beginning February 2025, which includes two retreat weekends and three required zoom sessions, takes a deep dive into mindfulness and includes the entire Mindfulness Based-Stress Reduction curriculum (currently pre-approved for 26 Continuing Education units for many providers in Minnesota: LMFT, LPCC, Social Worker, Psychologist). Join us October 27th 5-7pm for a free informational session where you can meet and ask questions of the teacher, Paula Coyne, and guides (Minneapolis/Zoom). More information is available at thenatureofwholeness.com, or contact us via email at thenatureofwholeness@gmail.com.

Please reach out via the contact form or email at kari@naturebased.care if you would like to be on a list to receive notifications of future trainings.   

Fall Sacred Sites Tour.  Friday,  Oct 25, 2024, 12:30 - 4:40 pm in sites around St. Paul. 

Join a group of local mental health professionals, coaches, naturalists and other folks who work with clients outside in nature on a Sacred Sites Tour of important, sacred places for the Native community in St. Paul.  The tour is part of Healing Minnesota Stories, sponsored by the Minnesota Council of Churches (MCC), an effort to create understanding and healing between Native American and non-Native people. Generations of Native people have suffered deep trauma from loss of land, language, and culture, and all who call Minnesota home are the lesser for it. The tour offers an opportunity to learn about Minnesota history from a Native perspective through storytelling and experiencing the sites in silence/meditation/reflection. Tours are led by Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs (Mohican).  Registration here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-sacred-sites-tour-with-healing-stories-minnesota-tickets-976588922757?aff=oddtdtcreator

Nature-Based Therapy: Lessons from the Field (Fall). Friday, September 27, 2024. 9:00 - 12:30.

This half-day workshop is. being offered entirely outside by Minneapolis Nature-Based Therapy clinicians Kari Kleven, MSW, LICSE and Annie Bunio, MSW, LGSW.  We can focus on work with children, families and/or adults, depending on the needs of those who register.   Location is near Lake Hiawatha in South Minneapolis.   

Read more at this eventbrite registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-based-therapy-lessons-from-the-field-tickets-976806453397

Nature-Based Therapy: Lessons from the Field (Spring).  Friday, May 3, 2024. 9:00 - 12:30.  

This half-day workshop is. being offered entirely outside by Minneapolis Nature-Based Therapy clinicians Kari Kleven, MSW, LICSE and Annie Bunio, MSW, LGSW.  We can focus on work with children, families and/or adults, depending on the needs of those who register.   Location is near Lake Hiawatha in South Minneapolis.   

Read more at this eventbrite registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-based-therapy-lessons-from-the-field-tickets-860281243357

Introduction to Outdoor Ecotherapy for Mental Health Professionals.  June 7, 2024. 9:30 - 3:30. 

This full day outdoors workshop will be facilitated by Becky Krenz-Roe, MA, LMFT. The workshop will focus on working outside with adults. Location is at RecuperAcres, a private, outdoor, nature based facility used for therapeutic purposes, in Watertown, MN.    

Read more about Becky and the event at this registration link: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.recuperacres.com_events&d=DwMFaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=jyk-aOi0iP7b5lSF4Sojs7N5IMTSYx27FUGSBeLIy3w&m=b40qpw4YMi-KGL-V3r-qu6YT8f2x89x199Pmrb9alb1q1tcHyrQhRXx5Q2IFOCSQ&s=ey8Hbwtg7nz9FUnzgJIBONnjFfNsBSfq3Ej1DtwFmys&e=