Training provider
Adore Your Outdoors
Small cohorts in Hampshire or online, with business modules alongside guiding practice.
Course
Accredited Nature Connection and Forest Therapy Guide Certification Programme
Format
Hybrid, with two online days and five days face to face in Hampshire, or fully online
Duration
Six months, 46 live hours
Price
£2,245 fully online; £2,745 hybrid; concession rates for teachers, NHS nurses, carers, forest school leaders and therapists; payment plans and a £197 deposit
Accreditation stated
Complementary Medical Association; Institute of Outdoor Learning
Locations
Houghton Lodge Gardens, Hampshire
Next dates
Spring and summer cohorts; dates on adoreyouroutdoors.co.uk
Website
https://adoreyouroutdoors.co.uk/
Adore Your Outdoors is run by Sonya Dibbin, who has guided in Hampshire since 2019 and trained with the Global Institute of Forest Therapy. Cohorts are capped at nine, and the programme includes business modules on pricing and marketing alongside guiding practice, reflecting Dibbin’s own experience of building a part-time practice. Cohorts run in spring and summer.
What’s included
Course materials, lifetime access to recordings, more than fifty invitations and session plans, one-to-one mentoring at every stage, a graduate community, and business modules.
Entry requirements
No prior experience. Insurance and first aid are needed for certification.
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