Begin in sacred space. In this opening session, we gather in council to set intentions and tune into the deep threads that have gathered us together. Through story, circle, and silence, we grow our container for the months ahead.

Tracing the living lineage of this work.
We explore the philosophical, psychological, and ecological roots of somatic ecotherapy, orienting to a worldview where psyche and Earth are not separate domains but a single, responsive field.

Crossing the first threshold.
This class introduces the art of arrival — how guides open space, mark transitions, and invite participants into a slower, more attentive way of being with body and place through nature-based ritual and ceremony.

The first of the guiding-focused classes explores what makes guidance trustworthy and alive. Attention is placed on the inner stance of the guide, the tone of invitation, and the subtle ways a field is shaped long before words are spoken.

This class explores regulation, grounding, and sensory attunement in relationship with the more-than-human world. Guides learn how states of safety and openness form the living ground for deeper work—and how Meadow practices are also potent medicine in their own right during times of overwhelm, disorientation, or depletion.

This class deepens somatic awareness and equips guides with tools to support slow, sensory embodied connection. The body is approached as a living threshold through which land, feeling, and meaning can speak.

Listening from the body. This class introduces the practice of inner listening, drawing on Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing—learning to attune to the subtle, bodily conversation that is always unfolding between psyche, soma and soil.

This class explores liminal space as fertile ground for depth work on the land. We examine the power of threshold crossing and the value in tending uncertainty —honouring the intelligence of the in-between.

In this class, guides learn how to hold council as a space for silence, presence, and the careful tending of stories gathered from the land. We explore how witnessing, ritual, and practices of offering support the closing of ecotherapy walks and the integration of experience back into life.

This class focuses on the archetype of the Guide and introduces metaskills: the subtle inner qualities of awareness, timing, and relational presence that shape the entire guiding field.

An introduction to the Four Shields. We enter the Forest terrain and are introduced to an ancient, pan-cultural map of human wholeness, psyche and belonging.

Resourcing wholeness. Exploring the North–South axis of the Shields, this class attends to vitality, innocence, wisdom, and embodied care. Guides learn how resourcing supports healing by rooting work in what is already alive, sustaining, and nourishing.

Holding the tender edge. We pendulate gently into wound work, exploring how guides create and protect sacred psychological space. Attention is given to personal myth, and ways of working with the innate healing power of the land.

Listening beyond the human frame. This class introduces Earth-Based Listening as a somatic, relational practice—an embodied conversation with land and the sacredness of place. From this ground, embodied listening becomes wild prayer.

This class gathers the threads of the journey into form. Through guided reflection practices, students are supported to begin finding the shape of their professional practice, with strategies to support them on the way.

The journey culminates with a final threshold-crossing, opening reflection, witnessing, and wild offering. This closing class marks the transition from student to guide, orienting participants to an ongoing path of practice and service