Nature-Based Tools for Burnout, Anxiety, and Depression: For Personal Self-Care and Clinical Application

Registration Instructions

Course Summary

Target Audience

Learning Objectives

Program Details

Venue & Location

Additional Information

Through experiential learning, reflective exercises, and guided practice, you will:

Describe and differentiate a wide range of evidence-based nature-based interventions (NBIs) and NatureRx prescriptions.
Assess the quality and appropriateness of NBIs for diverse client needs.
Integrate mindful, nature-based tools into client-centered treatment plans to support resilience and recovery from anxiety, depression, and burnout.
Develop and practice writing customized NBI treatment plans, and receive your own personalized NBI plan to support your wellness and prevent burnout.
Experience a variety of mindful, nature-based techniques that restore your own sense of calm, balance, and connection—helping you cultivate an embodied understanding to share with clients.
Identify risks and limitations associated with NBIs and learn best practices for safe, effective application.
Evaluate and revise NBI plans using practical tools and client self-reporting to ensure alignment with treatment goals.

Evidence-based nature-based interventions engage body and mind in restorative, multisensory ways that reduce stress, regulate emotions, and promote overall well-being—crucial for addressing anxiety, depression, trauma, and clinician burnout.

By weaving these holistic practices into your personal and professional toolkit, you will deepen your own resilience while enhancing therapeutic outcomes and client engagement.

This workshop is an invitation to slow down, experience, and practice differently—with yourself first.

You will leave not only with tools, but with a felt sense of how regulation, presence, and relationship with nature can support both clinicians and clients.

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Target Audience:

This activity is intended for Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Specialty Physicians, Primary Care Physicians, APPs (PA and NP), General Practice Providers (primary care, family medicine), Oncology, Geriatrics, and others with an interest.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Review a wide variety of nature-based interventions (NBIs) for use with patients/clients
Cite and describe evidence-based references about NBIs for psychoeducation teaching with patients/clients.
Distinguish and describe how differing NBIs affect neuro pathways relevant to burnout, anxiety, and depressive disorders
Develop and use nature-based interventions in client treatment plans, and with considerations for sustainability, client ability, access, and preference.
Detect and validate client self-reporting of NBI effects and apply that in co-creating a sustainable NBI treatment plan aligned with client’s treatment goals.
Evaluate NBI effectiveness through measurement tools and client self reporting.
Reflect on your own nature relatedness.
Demonstrate creating a NBI treatment plan aligned with the client’s treatment goals.

Program Details

Accreditation Available Credit: 6.50 Participation (see statement below)

8:30 am - Nature-Based Intervention (NBIs) and Practices and the Evidence Base

9:10 am - What are NBIs / The Scope of NBIs (part 1)

9:50 am - Experiential Session 1

10:30 am - Break

10:45 am - Treatment Plans (part 1)

12:00 pm - Lunch Break

1:00 pm - Experiential Session 2

1:40 pm - the Scope of NBIs (part 2)

2:05 pm - Treatment Plans (part 2)

3:05 pm - Break

3:20 pm - Refining Treatment Plans and Risks and Limitations

4:00 pm - Final Discussion and Q&A

Registration Fees:

Discipline-specific pricing

Psychologists - $225
Social Workers - $200
Administrators and Other Professions - $200

Physicians (MDs/DOs) - $275
Other Allied Health Professionals
(RNs, NPs, PAs) - $200
Trainees - $175

Registration: Dates and Locations

Select your preferred location and date

In person at the New England Botanic Garden. Both of the March workshops we will be indoors in both the beautiful indoor conservatories and our spacious conference room. (We will not be doing any activities outside.)

Online via Zoom. Both of the May workshops will be facilitated via Zoom. Ideally participants should attend from a location where they are able to move outside and inside easily.