Benefits of Ecotherapeutic Practices

Healing our connection to ourselves through being and learning in wild places.

Nature immersion benefits include:

• Relating better to self and others by improving emotional intelligence: self-awareness, expression, curiosity, coping skills and regulation

• Reduce anxiety (fear and worry)

• Empowerment and drive to live more authentically

• Better relational skills- understanding, acceptance, empathy

• Elevate feelings of gratitude

• Natural environments support nervous system regulation

• Heightened awareness around what it means to care for natural ecosystems and resources

• Exploration of emotional relationship to other animals, plants, fungi, and elements

• Improved critical thinking stills- explore system thinking, broaden perspectives, learn prehistory, cultivate greater curiosity about the natural environment

• Increased knowledge about about plants, growing cycles, and proper harvest techniques