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Exploring Therapy in the Natural World - offered by the WildCAT and Nature-Based Practice SIG
25th March 2025

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Timings: 09:00 – 10:30

With Abi Tarran-Jones, Amanda Copeland and Nick Barnes

Following on from the 2023 WildCATs residential at the Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in the Highlands of Scotland, and with further Special Interest Group development meetings, the WIldCAT and Nature Based Practice SIG are looking to offer an online webinar for the CAT community – therapists, practitioners, and the CAT curious  - on how mapping and making meaning of our connection with land, nature and community can impact on our practice, as well as our own wellbeing, as mental health professionals.

Each of the presenters will share stories from their own experiences and practice, offering insights into how “Nature finds a way”.

In this webinar, Abi will be sharing practical insights into facilitating psychological therapy in nature, focusing on the powerful tool of therapeutic mapping. Through presenting a case study, she'll illustrate how this technique can deepen and enrich the therapeutic process, fostering a stronger connection between client, therapist, and the natural environment. The hope is to inspire and support fellow practitioners to consider how they might integrate nature into their own therapeutic work, offering practical strategies and considerations for taking their practice outdoors.  

In Sussex, Natural England have funded practitioners in mental health and public, primary and community services health to undertake  nature-based training so that they can bring nature based interventions into their work.  Amanda a CAT psychotherapist, eco-therapist and mental health nurse working in a NHS Family Eating Disorder Service, has been at the forefront of innovative nature-based practice in Sussex and can answer questions from her own experience on how this can be done within the framework of the NHS.  She will share how as a psychotherapist she has adapted her therapeutic role and practice so that nature-based work has become part of what she does.  She will explore some of the obstacles she faced and what helped her overcome them.  She will share some of the positive aspects of working in nature with young people and their families, and how this therapeutic pathway can be developed.

With the recent award of funding through the NHS Charities Together Innovation Fund, Nick will share his perspectives of working within Green Spaces in seeking to overcome the entrenched health and healthcare inequalities that drive and sustain the current crisis in mental health support and service development.

For more information and booking please visit: https://www.internationalcat.org/event-details/nature-finds-a-way-mapping-and-making-meaning-in-green-spaces

 

 

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