This interactive, experiential professional development workshop provides you with the knowledge and skills you need to confidently support your clients and staff to manage stress effectively with nature-based practices. The workshop is suitable for workers in a wide range of roles that support other people.
From the workshop base, you will participate in learning activities that build your knowledge and skills around the topic of nature-based stress management. Nature immersion and nature connection is a key aspect of this workshop. The workshop will include a combination of indoor and outdoor activities including discussions, reflections, mindfulness practices, nature craft and more. We will apply the workshop knowledge and skills to a wide range of work environments and contexts so that you feel confident implementing them in your workplace.
You’ll leave the workshop with a range of innovative, engaging and effective stress management tools for yourself, your clients and your staff.
Who is this workshop for?
“Teach Stress Management Skills with Nature” is ideal for:
- workers in support roles
- allied health workers
- managers
- counsellors
- educators
- health practitioners
- disability support workers
- youth workers
- chaplains
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this workshop you will:
- have a solid foundation of psycho-education and skills training methods to teach stress management to other people using nature-based practices
- be able to explain what ‘stress’ is including its many functions and presentations
- understand the physiological and other processes involved in the stress response and relaxation response
- understand the link between nature and mental health (including the experience of stress)
- have an understanding of a range of nature-based, evidence-based and evidence-informed stress management practices that can be applied to a wide variety of contexts
- understand the value and importance of practising stress management techniques yourself
- have a draft action plan for the purpose of implementing your knowledge and skills around nature-based stress management in your workplace
- feel confident about supporting your clients and staff to learn and practise effective nature-based stress management skills
- be able to identify reliable and credible sources of information from the maze of information that is currently on offer in the wellness industry
- be able to identify pathways for future learning and support
Participants will be provided with:
- pre-workshop reading material to prepare for and gain the most from the workshop (allow up to 1 hour reading time)
- an electronic resource list
- an electronic Certificate of Attendance (8 hours professional development including pre-reading material)
- all materials and equipment needed for workshop activities – please bring your own notebook and pen
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We welcome your enquiry about the next date and location for this workshop, or ask how we can customise training or a retreat for your group, community or workplace.
