Tender Pine Co.

Being a certified forest and nature therapy guide offers both structure and flexibility to work in different settings with diverse groups. As guides we gather invitations from the more-than-human world around us and offer these to the folks we are accompanying on a walk. I have guided in-person groups as well as regular online natural kinship groups with teenagers. I have worked with folks ranging from gyms to local LGBTQ+ charities and volunteer at camps every summer.

In 2020, I joined a virtual forest bathing walk and took part in something that I saw as an honorable and authentic way to experience the world around us. I knew that my guide had something special to offer, they invited us into our own unique relationships with the natural world and I wanted to offer this to others too. So I applied for the six-month guide training offered by the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides. As it turned out I was able to train under the guide from my virtual walk and have since assisted them at other trainings. I am also trained as a Natural Mindfulness Guide.