local nature-based Therapy Workshops and other offerings

Outdoor Ecotherapy in Practice. Friday, May 30, 2025. 9:30 - 3:30

Becky Krenz offers this annual workshop 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..

CEU credits available,

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Summer & Fall Nature-Based Therapy Workshops

Outdoor Ecotherapy in Practice. Friday, May 30, 2025. 9:30 - 3:30

Stay tuned for Summer and Fall 2025 workshops to be listed here soon.

This series will include more specific advanced ecotherapy/nature-based therapy in practice content. 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 these future trainings.

Current offerings by other folks connecting nature and wellness.

See what else is being offered by other providers in the community.

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Past Events

Current offerings by other folks connecting nature and wellness.

List of past events offered by nature-based folks in the area.

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offerings by others connecting nature & Wellness

Virtual CEU event through MAMFT. Monday, June 16, 2025, 9:00 - 12:00. Bursting The Bubble: How MFT Practices Can Contain the Environmental, Political, and Cultural Distress of Climate Change within the Polycrisis

Join Becca Manthe and Becky Krenz for a virtual CEU event through MAMFT.

https://www.mamft.net/event-6160663

This session will be focused on addressing clinical issues related to climate change and modernity with clients from an experiential and systemic perspective.

Parenting Informed by a Relationship with Nature. July 12-13 & 19, 2025.

Join Becca Manthe and Sarah Bowman as they facilitate a beautiful offering through the city or Lakeville-Parenting Informed by a Relationship with Nature. Check back here soon for the link to register!

Ecotherapy Lunch and Learn. Friday, April 4, 2025. 12-1.

Tara Burns is presenting a Lunch and Learn about ecotherapy to members of Minnesota Womxn in Psychology. Here's the link to sign up to be a member, and here's a direct link to register for her presentation.

List of past events

Ecotherapy Lunch and Learn. Friday, April 4, 2025. 12-1.

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.

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.