Training provider
Light Box
Bristol social enterprise; live online course with a mentored local practicum, the most affordable established route.
Course
Forest Therapy Practitioner Training
Format
Live online, six fixed dates, with an eight-week mentored practicum in your own local woodland
Duration
16 weeks
Price
£1,320 including VAT; £990 bursary places; instalments at no extra cost
Accreditation stated
Complementary Medical Association; The CPD Group approved provider
Locations
Online
Next dates
Cohorts start several times a year; current dates on wearelightbox.co.uk
Website
https://wearelightbox.co.uk/
Light Box is a Bristol social enterprise founded in 2010 by Lucy Duggan and Lucy Barfoot, and says it has trained more than 350 forest therapy practitioners through its sixteen-week programme. The course is entirely live online, with the first eight weeks on theory and practice and the second eight on a mentored practicum, in small closed groups. It has a research partnership with the University of Bristol’s psychiatry department. Light Box publishes a public map of graduates, which is unusual among UK providers, and its course is one of the most affordable of the established routes.
What’s included
Posted course materials, two one-to-one tutorials, two group coaching calls, an eight-week mentored practicum, lifetime access to recordings, a certificate, a listing on the Light Box graduate directory, a private community, and eligibility for professional insurance.
Entry requirements
None.
Guides on this site who trained with Light Box
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