Ecotherapy Training Series for Mental Health Professionals
3-Part Workshop Series for Therapists to experience a nature-based journey into clinical integration, personal embodiment and transformational practice.
“The wild world is not outside of us—it is our deepest teacher, our co-therapist, and our reminder of who we are.”
This immersive 3-part training series is designed for therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals who are ready to expand their clinical practice with evidence-based, nature-centered healing methods. Whether you’re feeling stuck in a therapy room, craving deeper connection with your work, or seeking ways to ethically and confidently bring nature into the healing process, this series is for you.
Each level builds on the last, guiding participants through personal embodiment, skill-building, and eventually transformational facilitation in land-based therapeutic work.
About this Series:
Part 1: Bringing the Outside In
December 4-5, 2026 from 9-3 pm In-person
$225 Investment
$175 for Students
Level 1 introduces the foundations of eco-therapy with accessible, indoor-friendly methods you can immediately integrate into clinical practice. Therapists will explore the benefits of nature-based healing through sensory practices, evidence-based frameworks (e.g., DBT, MBSR, SE), and somatic reflection, no wilderness experience required. This will be an immersive weekend designed to help you, as a therapists, and your clients get the benefits of nature from within an office setting. This is a hands-on, fun, and restorative experience on how nature supports healing.
You'll leave with:
✔️ Your very own take-home eco-therapy tool box: a small plant, journal, scent, eco-therapy worksheets, and eco art.
✔️ A bouquet of evidence-based tools you can use in and outside of sessions
✔️ New practices to use for your own self-care and office environment
✔️ Confidence in translating nature-based language into documentation and clinical models
Level 2: Stepping into the Wild Unknown
December 4-5, 2026 from 9-3 pm In-person
$225 Investment
$175 for Students
Level 2 is for you, the one holding it all. Over two days outdoors, you'll set down what you've been carrying, find the places in nature that truly restore you, and reconnect with the wild, intuitive self who meets the unknown with courage. Day one is rooted in ʻāina (land) and day two in kai (sea), closing with a full moon fire ceremony. It's deeper, wilder, and more spiritual than Level 1, and still safe and accessible. No hardcore hiking required.
You'll leave with:
✔️ Your nature-home: the landscapes that restore you most, and how to engage them with reciprocity and respect
✔️ Release practices for the energy, guilt, and weight you carry from your work
✔️ Healing rituals with the seasons, moon cycles, and elements
✔️ Basic wilderness safety and survival skills, learned through play
✔️ A deeper sense of personal grounding and communal belonging
✔️ Clarity on self-readiness and client-readiness for bringing this work into sessions
Level 3: Transformative Thresholds
Coming April 2027
Format: Multi-day immersion weekend retreat
Rites of Passage | Inner Wilderness | Guided Solo Overnight Experience
Level 3 is a rite of passage for the practitioner—blending clinical mastery, deep embodiment, and personal growth. This training invites you into Zone 3: the greater ecosystem of self, soul, and society. Through ceremony, group process, nature-based ritual, and solo reflection time on the land, you’ll explore how to guide threshold moments like grief, change, and rebirth—for both yourself and your clients. This is the culmination of your eco-therapy journey: grounded, ethically-informed, and soulfully equipped.
You'll leave with:
✔️ Capacity to hold space for transformation through nature-based ritual
✔️ Frameworks for rites of passage, the hero/ine’s journey, and eco-soul work
✔️ Experience facilitating and embodying group and solo outdoor healing
✔️ Clarity on your personal relationship with nature as a guide, mirror, and ally in your work
YOUR GUIDES
With deep roots in Hawaiʻi and decades of combined experience in mental health, wilderness immersion, and integrative healing, Dawn Martin and Sara Kuʻuipo Kunz don’t just teach ecotherapy—they live it. Dawn’s clinical expertise and leadership in trauma-informed, holistic care pairs powerfully with Sara’s dynamic background in storytelling, nature-based facilitation, and cultural connection. Together, they embody the spirit of this work—blending heart, science, and soul. Their passion is contagious, their presence grounded, and their facilitation a transformative invitation to reconnect with the land, ourselves, and the deeper rhythms of healing.
