ECOTHERAPY MINDFULNESS GROUP

The Medicine of Nature: Coming Back to Self​

• Reconnect to your five senses in a new way that makes you feel relaxed and refreshed. You'll practice a grounding tool you can use to interrupt stressful moments anytime, anywhere. By seeing yourself and the natural world with fresh eyes, you'll realize how much beauty and resources you've been too busy to notice. This shift rewires your brain toward resilience and opens the door to everything that follows.

Mindfulness in Nature: From Chaos to Calm & Connected

• Your mind is trained to worry. This week, you'll catch the loops- the overthinking, spiraling, worry cycles that run on repeat. You'll reconnect with your "wise mind," the part of you that knows what's true beneath the noise. Through guided observation and appreciation in nature, you'll learn to redirect those difficult habits and thoughts. By the end, your mind will feel less crowded.

Nature as a Co-Regulator: Move From Stuck to Fired Up

• When we're stressed, we shut down subtly and in big ways. Decision fatigue. Depression. Apathy. That stuck feeling. This week is about gentle activation: moving your body, shifting your mood, reconnecting with motivation. You'll learn how slow, steady processes, like roots growing deep, build real strength. You'll feel the difference between shutdown and aliveness.

Nervous System Restoration: Deep Recovery

• Life gets busy and restoration feels impossible. This week, you'll learn forest bathing- a practice used for centuries and validated by science. You'll experience how simply being in nature, breathing, noticing, letting your body settle, physically restores your mind, body, and spirit.  You'll have a tool you can use anywhere there's green, even if you only have 15 minutes.

Cognitive Reframing: Challenge What's Not Serving You

• Stress creates rigid thinking: It has to be this way. I need to do more. I should be better at this. This week, you'll learn to catch and release what's not serving you,like leaves floating down a stream. You'll discover what does serve you and translate that into real action and relief in your life right now. You'll practice gratitude and compassionate self-talk, and learn how that's different from toxic positivity. You'll feel the difference.

Emotions as Elements: Understanding Your Emotional Weather

• By now, you've practiced recognizing what doesn't serve you and transforming it into what does. This week, you're honing that skill by understanding emotions through the lens of elements. You'll connect with a natural element that resonates with you- earth, water, fire, or air, and develop it as a tool for processing change, stress, and reconnecting to who you want to be. Through elemental meditations and self-expression, you'll stop pathologizing your emotions and start understanding them as weather: real, moving, and temporary.

Reconnecting with Purpose, Community, and Belonging

• This week, you'll get clear on your role in relation to others- how connection can be both a source of strength and a place where you lose yourself. You'll clarify who you are, what you actually care about, and how to live your values without isolation (because part of stress is disconnecting from both your ideal self and the people around you). You'll take a medicine walk with intention through nature, participate in guided connection with the group, and remember the forest of support around you.

Integration, Personal Ecology & Stepping Forward

• To celebrate the new skills and self you've reclaimed, we'll come together and send you off with a personal resilience plan and toolkit. You'll build a real, doable plan tailored to your unique nature: what you need, who you trust, where you find yourself again when life gets loud. We'll close with ritual, intention, and eco-art. You'll leave knowing exactly how to come home to yourself.