Discover Engaging Classes

Immersive Learning. Experience interactive, hands-on outdoor education designed to match your group's expertise. All classes include engaging, tactile activities, even for indoor settings.

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Personal Approach to Environmental Action. Our classes and presentations introduce a paradigm shift, going beyond traditional metrics like carbon footprints and waste reduction. Instead, we harness the power of intrinsic motivation, promoting personal and environmental well-being through joyful nature-inspired activities rooted in proven learning strategies.

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Scalable Solutions. Choose from standalone classes or a series of sessions that span preferred timeframes. Whether you have 5 or 500 participants, our classes are customizable to align with your requirements and budget.

Grow Resiliency

Nurture nature. Discover the art of organic gardening through our Grow Resiliency program, where participants learn to nurture vegetables, herbs, fruits, wild edibles and medicinals in ways that flourish harmoniously with wildlife habitats.

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Lower Maintenance. Our classes teach strategies that shift the maintenance burden to Mother Nature’s strong back, giving participants more time to enjoy their landscape.

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Below are some of our most popular classes.

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Ecological Design and Wildlife Habitat

• Permaculture and ecological design

• Low-maintenance landscape design

• Deer-resistant landscape strategies

• Establish a new garden bed

• Rain garden design and establishment

• Grow a bird oasis

• Grow herbs in turfgrass

• Establish native prairie gardens

• Design ever-blooming gardens

Edibles

• Indoor seed starting

• Bed layout and management

• Vegetable and herb gardening

• Container gardening

• Edible forest gardening and design

• Orchard crop plant selection

• Square foot gardening

• High-yield, low-maintenance gardening

• Composting and compost tea

• Vermicomposting (managing a worm compost bin)

• Community garden design and management

• Wild edible and mushroom foraging

Children's Playscape Design

• Designing a children's natural playscape

• Create fairy and gnome gardens

Earthmind

Well-being and Climate Action. Earthmind is a transformative program that enhances personal and community well-being while making a positive impact on climate change. Through carefully crafted, research-based classes, participants engage in practices that directly improve personal health and the health of local outdoor environments.

Discover, Connect, Act. Participants learn to assess and improve the climate-friendly qualities of their current surroundings. This goes beyond viewing nature as an abstract concept; it fosters a deep connection with nature as a living entity that responds to our care and attention.

While every class explores distinct subjects, they all share common threads:

• Instill mindfulness.

• Immersion in the natural world.

• Illuminate ways the practices contribute to mitigating climate change.

• Encourage sharing the practices with communities for widespread adoption.

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This unique blend of mindfulness and ecological stewardship equips participants with a versatile toolkit to actively and joyfully engage in environmental action.

Evidence-Based Approach. Classes combine several evidence-based therapeutic strategies:

• Mindfulness: Stay present and reduce stress.

• Horticultural Therapy: Use gardening to boost well-being.

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Embrace feelings and take action despite them.

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Manage emotions and improve relationships.

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Link thoughts, feelings and actions to feel better.

Wisdom of Ancestors. Ancient skills help participants step away from the fast-paced modern world, encouraging them to slow down, observe, and reconnect with their humanity. The intentionally slow-paced practices induce relaxation while allowing participants to tap into the wisdom of our ancestors, who lived in harmony with the land.

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Below are some of our most popular classes.

Well-Being with Nature

• Sensory garden design and establishment

• Sensory prairie seeding

• Craft nature art

• Grow self-awareness with houseplants

• Create a Zen tray

Ancestral Skills

• Mindful foraging

• Foraged tea

• Cordage crafting

• Craft a tinder bundle

• Primitive fire-making

• Wildlife observation

• Animal tracking

Outdoor Therapy

• Grounding with nature

• Managing ruminations

• Forest bathing / forest therapy

• Soothing the self-critic

• Yoga outdoors

• Nourishing our senses

• Rituals and altars

• Bringing the outdoors inside

Outdoor Therapy Staff Training. We offer nature-based training to counselors and care givers to help them understand how their unique skill set can be applied in the outdoors to enhance outcomes. Evidence-based research is reviewed while experiencing the same activities provided to clients. This hands-on approach helps professionals enjoy the benefits of the practices while learning how to apply them.

Why Nature?

Nature’s Healing Influence. We instinctively know that we feel better in outdoor areas surrounded by the buzz and beauty of nature. Research consistently shows that connecting with nature has profound, positive impacts:

• Eases stress, depression, fear and anxiety.

• Improves cognitive function, sleep quality, mood, creativity, and immune responses.

• Enhances self-belief, inspiring action and achievement.

• Induces joy and calms survival instincts.

• Facilitates emotional processing to navigate difficult experiences.

• Creates a welcoming, non-judgmental, and secure setting.

• Reawakens the innate understanding that we are inherently worthy.

Reconnecting with Our Natural Home. For thousands of years, humanity has thrived with nature. We are intrinsically linked to this nurturing environment, which has contributed to our growth and well-being. Time spent in nature allows us to shift our perspective from the individual to the holistic benefits of this healing environment.

Local Locations

Sustainable Access. Whenever feasible, classes are conveniently held at residences, on campuses, and urban green spaces near to where most participants reside, ensuring accessibility without the need for polluting fossil fuel-based transportation.

Sustainable Transportation. We promote walking, biking, taking public transportation, and carpooling to encourage reductions in carbon footprints and instill the mindset that collectively, these small yet meaningful actions contribute significantly to mitigating the health impacts of climate change and pollution.

Provided Services

Our goal is to provide you with a comprehensive and hassle-free experience to ensure the success of your programs.

Our comprehensive services include:

• Effortless Online Registration. Participants can securely register and pay for classes through our user-friendly website.

• Strategic Promotion. Leverage the power of local and social media as we expertly promote your classes to a wider audience through posts and posters.

• Funding Assistance. We can assist in securing funding through grants and other sources.

• Catering Excellence. Enjoy nourishing refreshments and meals tailored to the session's duration and participant preferences.

• Resources. Research-based publications are tailored and provided to participants to enhance learning experiences.

• Facility Arrangement. Let us handle the logistics—we can find and reserve suitable indoor and outdoor facilities, including overnight accommodations.