SpringWise – Innovating for Nature – Using Nature as Co-Therapist
Rewilding Britain SpringWise - Innovating for Nature: Using Nature as a Co-Therapist - Q&A with Terri Dawson, Wilderness Environmental Education Officer
Essex Chronicle March 2024 – TurnAround Graduation
Essex Chronicle - Mar24 - Marie Goldman at the Wilderness Foundation's TA Graduation
The Guardian 24th May 2024 – How to Rewild Your Teenagers
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/24/how-to-rewild-your-teenagers-a-parents-guide-to-reconnecting-them-with-nature
Greater Access to Nature
We have signed @ukyouth4nature letter along with 50+other organisations, calling for investment for greater access to nature for everyone. Our CEO, Jo Roberts, explains why: “Understanding the devastation of green and natural space on biodiversity is hard enough, but its loss will impact the wellbeing of our youth and communities as well. We call on [...]
Why 1-1 Wilderness Therapy is Important
At the Wilderness Foundation UK, our therapy programmes encourage clients to explore issues around the challenges they face with their mental health while actively participating in a natural setting. For example, the associate wilderness therapist will sit with a client around a fire and enquire about the client's experiences, whether it involves issues with [...]
Wilderness and nature therapy camps for teens/young people
We offer non-residential and residential camps for young people who are experiencing difficulties in their young lives or who are experiencing problems with their mental health and wellbeing. These range from 2 to 4 days in duration, with some including overnight camping. Our programmes are nature-based and use a range of activities and skills [...]
Year in Review: Wilderness Therapy
Jo Roberts delivered wilderness therapy training course for 12 therapists from Poland and the Czech Republic in the Natura 2000 protected mountain region of SE Poland bordering on the Ukraine and Slovakia. The area is made up of mixed woodland and ancient beech forest with exciting biodiversity including wolves, bison and wild boar. Carrying all [...]
Adult Wilderness Therapy Trail departing September 2017
Our therapy trails provide you with an opportunity to gain perspective and understanding. North Wales expedition departing 11th September 2017
Adult Wilderness Therapy Trail – 5 days in Wales
Our therapy trails provide you with an opportunity to gain perspective and understanding. North Wales expedition departing 22nd May 2017
Wilderness Therapy Trails 2017
We are pleased to announce dates for our open Wilderness Therapy trails in 2017
Wilderness Therapy – Turning Tree workshops
The Turning Tree - Art and the Symbolic Imagination Friend of the Wilderness Foundation, Ivan Daggett, is running a series of Wilderness Therapy workshops called The Turning Tree. These serve as a series of supportive workshops at the seasonal change times of the year where time is spent alone in nature and art making in the studio as [...]
Wilderness Foundation engaged to run Wilderness Therapy Training in Slovakia
We are delighted that the Wilderness Foundation UK have been engaged by Navrat RDZO to work with their team and other therapists to run a Wilderness Therapy trail in Slovakia to explore working therapeutically in wild places. Jo Roberts has been the CEO of the Foundation for the past 13 years and has founded a range of [...]
Join up Dots podcast by Wilderness Foundation CEO
Changing The Lives Of Young Adults With The Help Of Nature Recently Jo Roberts, our CEO was interviewed by joinupdots.com and her podcast on 'Changing The Lives of Young Adults with the Help of Nature' can be accessed here: Click Here to Subscribe via iTunes Click Here to Subscribe via RSS (non-iTunes feed) Todays guest [...]
Wild Trail Training Course September 2014
The next course takes place in Wales between 22nd and 26th September 2014.
Wild Trail Training
Wild Trail Training We are organising a Five day Ecotherapy Journey for Outdoor Practitioners in Wales betweeen 22nd and 26th September 2014. The Training will be led by Hayley Marshall UKCP Reg Psychotherapist and Rob Collister Mountain Guide. "A physical journey into wild country evokes a dynamic emotional connection with the natural world. Working therapeutically within this process helps [...]