Next Course: TBD
Are you a therapist wondering how to incorporate the natural world into your practice? Have you personally experienced the power and magic of the outdoors, yet not sure how to harness this resource to enhance your professional work?
Are you an outdoor educator who wants to learn how to use the outdoor experience therapeutically? Are you wanting to support your students and clients to become conscious and conscientious caretakers of the earth through facilitating a deep personal connection within them?
As a part of the natural world ourselves, we hold the wisdom that allows us to intuitively tap into the natural healing potential of the earth. Our goal is to empower you to collaborate with the natural world in creating meaningful experiences and interventions for the people with whom you work. In this training we will provide information, experience, theory, and support for you to develop specific therapeutic wilderness tools, as well as to trust your own creative ideas. The course will involve immersing yourself in a personal exploration of the natural world in connection to your own life goals and desires as a path to being a guide for others.
Trainings will provide both personal growth and professional skills in the following:
- Nature as Metaphor
- Adventure-Based Counseling Techniques
- Transpersonal Nature Awareness
- Contemplative Practices in the Natural World
- Expressive Arts in the Natural World
- Ceremony and Ritual
This intensive 5-day program will take place at Lefthand Alliance Land Trust near Boulder, CO. Our days will be spent outside learning and practicing wilderness and eco-therapy techniques that can be easily applied to your current therapeutic practice or educational curriculum.
Schedule
- Days 1, 3 & 5 of the course we will meet 9am-5pm
- Days 2 & 4 of the course we will meet 9am-9pm
Registration
Click here to download the registration packet.
Cost
- $995.00
- A $300.00, non-refundable, deposit is required at the time of registration (Master Card and Visa are accepted). For more information and to register for this program, please call 720-352-7865 (Michael).
- Lunches are included, however we ask that you bring snacks for yourself
The Earth-Based Institute is owned and operated by Michael Jospé. As a professional coach, educator and wilderness guide, Michael is passionate about helping people learn about themselves while being out in nature. Michael is certified as a Professional Coach through the International Coach Federation and as Wilderness First Responder through Wilderness Medicine Institute. Michael has been coaching others, guiding people into the wilderness, and teaching students to be outdoor leaders and guides for over a decade.
Derek is the Owner, Founder and Clinical Director of Reach, Inc., a therapeutic counseling agency in Denver, Colorado. Derek holds a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and is licensed as an LPC in Colorado. In addition, Derek is Certified in Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Wilderness Emergency Medicine (WFR). Derek has over 15 years experience as a therapist and facilitator combining his passion for wilderness, adventure, and self-exploration while assisting individuals in creating powerful, illuminating experiences.
Katie is a Wilderness Therapist and Educator. She combines her passions for creativity, deep self-exploration, radical self-acceptance, and present moment awareness to create eclectic and meaningful experiences for people. Katie is an adjunct faculty at Naropa University, has a private psychotherapy practice in Boulder, CO, and advisor for the Master of Arts Program (MAP) at Prescott College. She is an Outward Bound Instructor and a guide for the Women’s Wilderness Institute