Restore & Unwind: Nature-based Wellbeing

We acknowledge this event takes place on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past & present. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Join Carolyn Shurey for a 5-week Nature Therapy course along Edgars Creek and surrounds.

Whilst participants are encouraged to join for the full series, each session focuses on a different aspect of Nature Therapy allowing for casual participation. Choose your own adventure. 

Week 1: Introduction to Nature Therapy for wellbeing: benefits, the science and sensory based activities moving through nature. 

Week 2: Who's who along the creek. A series of sensory and creative activities where your focus is on the other-than-human species that call Edgar's Creek home. 

Week 3: Get creative: Nature Art for wellbeing, a series of activities that encourages creativity and connection while moving along the creek.

 
Week 4: Be still with nature: Nature Journaling and sit spot practice. Practical skills for being with and deeply observing nature.  (Bring a compact fold up chair if you don't want to sit on the ground)

Week 5: Bringing it all together: Help reset your adrenal system and gain the therapeutic benefits of nature in pockets of forest along Edgars Creek. Tune your senses, get creative and be still with nature. 

Dates:

15 Oct

29 Oct

12 Nov

26 Nov

10 Dec

• Sessions will run for 1.5 hours 

• 1:00pm - 2:30pm 

• Fortnightly

Nature Therapy is a guided preventative health practice that invites participants to engage deeply with the natural world. The sequence of activities is structured to promote a calming and restorative experience. Rather than focusing on fitness or destination, these sessions encourage presence, curiosity, and connection to nature, to ourselves, and to one another. This practice is based on Forest Bathing principles and activities.

MEETING POINT:

Opposite number 57 Ronald Street, Coburg North

About your facilitator:

Carolyn Shurey is an experience teacher and group facilitator. She has been working with groups of all ages in the outdoors for over 25 years. Carolyn completed her training as a Forest Therapy Guide with the International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance in 2022. She has been running regular Forest Therapy and Nature Connection sessions in the Northern Suburbs ever since. She is a trained yoga and mediation teacher and works at the Royal Botanic Gardens as a Learning Facilitator. 

Limited spots so booking is essential. Suitable for adults 16 years and above.

*Please dress for the weather and wear sturdy closed toe shoes. All equipment and a small mat for sitting on the ground are provided.
Sessions include some sitting on the ground, standing and walking along mostly unsealed gently undulating pathways. We do not walk fast and travel less than 1.5 km from the meeting point.

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