Next Cohort Begins: February 10th, 2012
Cost: $1000/Semester - ($900/Semester if registered by Jan, 15, 2012)
Call for more information: 720-443-1193.
Strengthen your guiding and teaching effectiveness with process skills that will enhance people’s lives. Or, strengthen your process-skills and help your clients thrive by knowing how to bring nature into your therapeutic work with others. Either way, this program will increase your confidence in facilitating transformative experiences in nature.
This program is a comprehensive, professional training that focuses on learning how to utilize the therapeutic qualities found in nature and wilderness to help others move forward in their lives. The skills and method offered are ideal for people in the fields of Wilderness Therapy, Outdoor and Adventure Education, Counseling Psychology, and Personal and Organizational Coaching. The training is three semesters long with a new cohort starting each Spring and Fall.
What you’ll get out of it:
- Theoretical understanding of the field and methods.
- Hands on experience and application.
- Greater understanding of your interests and strengths as a transformative wilderness guide.
- A step up in the job market.
- Confidence in how to work in a transformational way with others in nature.
Structure:
- Three semesters long (see below for more information).
- Each semester includes a theoretical component as well as a hand-on component.
- 4 three-day face to face intensives each semester. These intensives will take place in an outdoor setting and may involve camping and hiking.
- Online discussions and application assignments to keep the learning alive in between face to face meetings.
- Bimonthly (twice per month) phone/video conferences with your cohort and instructor.
- A ton of hands on experience and mentoring to ensure learning.
- Student must attend all face to face weekends and be observed and evaluated as a guide in order to be certified by the Earth-Based Institute as a Transformational Wilderness Guide.
Semester 1 Learning Objectives:
- Understand the field of transformational Wilderness Guiding and your place in it.
- Understand and deepen your relationship to nature.
- Deep listening and attunement skills.
- Learn how to collaborated with the natural world to help others.
Semester 2 Learning Objectives:
- Understand the neuroscience of relationship and the process of change.
- Learn nature-based models for change and self-awareness.
- Group-process and mirroring skills.
- Understanding how nature promotes change and how to facilitate it.
- Contemplative skills.
- Learn how to work with trauma, and special situations in the wilderness environment.
- Focus your goals for the future by having a better sense of what population you hope to work with and what modalities you’d like to specialize in.
- Identify next steps for further education or experience.
- Make connections with leaders in the field.
- Experience several effective process modalities that are directly applicable in an outdoor setting:
- Gestalt psychology
- Mindfulness: Based Stress Reduction
- Wilderness Survival
- Self, Soul, Spirit
- Body-Centered approaches
- Equine and Animal Assisted approaches
Benifits to hiring organizations:
- Field staff with strong therapeutic and empathetic process skills.
- Field staff who understands how to use the therapeutic qualities found in nature and wilderness.
- An effective communication bridge between clinical and field staff.
- Outdoor leaders and educators who can nurture self-transformation in your participants.
For more information please contact us.
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.
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
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.
