Study Ecotherapy

 
 

Nature-informed learning
Pay as You Go. NOW A GENUINE 50% off WINTER SPECIAL for a limited time

 

Kickstart
your Career

Grow your career working in/with Nature 

Self Employment Opportunities

Create your occupational niche within the continual revolutions in job markets and create self-employment opportunities in Ecotherapy

Become an Ecological
Imaginary

Understand the societal contexts of Nature and Healing, and become an ecological imaginary

Evidence & Experience
informed

Develop your confidence in foundation of evidence-informed frameworks in Ecotherapy

 
 

Meet the Team

  • Kerryn Coombs-Valeontis

    FOUNDER

    Kerryn is an author and teacher working in Environmental Education. She has completed a Master’s of Social Ecology at UWS in 2002. She has also completed a Diploma in Transpersonal Art Therapy. She is a sessional lecturer and content developer at Nan Tien Buddhist Institute in Wollongong NSW since 2019 in the Mental Health and Social Wellbeing programs. She delights in connecting and supporting those who wish to work more closely with nature. She has independently published a collection of poetry in 2022 (in parentheses) Her latest publication OK Doomer is a creative and contemplative resource to support those working with climate overwhelm and ecological sorrow.

  • Kelly Jarvis

    Residential Facilitator Aotearoa/NZ

    Kelly Jarvis is a Co-facilitator on residentials in Aotearoa /New Zealand.

    Kelly has been working in the family Violence and Health & Wellbeing sector for the last 15 years. Over this time, she has developed a Nature Based Therapy Practice; Puāwai. Puāwai is an intuitive and creative approach to therapy that is grounded in the concept of hononga; exploring the intrinsic relationships between people, Wairua, and Te Taiao; the magic and interconnectedness of everything around us in the natural world, and beyond. Kelly facilitates healing through the weaving of nature, Rongoa Māori, creativity, and storytelling.

  • Karen Gray

    Module Tutor

    Karen shares her passion for plants and people in creative engagement with over 30 years experience in Botanic Gardens, community gardens, private gardens and as a horticultural therapist in mental health, aged care and the disability sector.  She feels strongly that gardens and access to nature is available for all in health care having witnessed beautiful transformations for participants.  She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Management & Tourism, Certificates in Disability Support, Horticulture, Bush Regeneration Supervision, Techniques for Horticultural Therapy and is co-author of Nature Heals An Introduction to Nature-based therapy in Australia and New

Ecotherapy Graduates talk meeting the world with the work of Ecotherapy

 

TREE OF LIFE sheisseenmovement.com

As I have deepened into this first module, I have found myself feeling like this course, the books I’m reading from the recommended reading list and the rabbit holes I’ve found myself researching online have me feeling very aligned with this path, and perhaps even why I’ve been doing the things I do. The way this study has me connecting the dots from where I’ve been to where I am going is feeling like a therapeutic weave itself - one I knew I needed but previously had no idea where to look for and can make all the difference.”

Ecotherapy Student and Earthart Activist Libby Tozer

She is Seen Movement

Eartheart Ecotherapy NOW 50% OFF for a limited time

Since 2018 course prices have not increased. Pay as you go, better than a payment plan. Winter Special Course prices. This is a genuine offer - part response to the shock of AI and the way it is colonising our learning, our creativity and our authenticity. Further disconnecting us from the embodied learning and nature. Part response to the cost of living, which is real and ongoing. And partly moving toward the gift economy.

Certificate of Ecotherapy Groupwork

Module cost each: $300. NOW $150
Payments can be spaced out over the course per Module (up to 6 months per module allowed). Better than a payment plan!

NO PREREQUISITES NEEDED Aprox 40 hours per module

Best for those who:

  • working in community/human services and want a shorter course in Ecotherapy

  • AND/OR would like to experience the healing opportunities of connecting more with their Ecological/Eco-selves

    Enrollment + 4 Modules
    AUD$1500 (pay per module available)

  • NOW $750 total

Advanced Certificate of Ecotherapy Groupwork

750 hours
4 extra modules building on the first 4from the Certificate

+70-hour community placement  2 years (including Certificate in Ecotherapy) to complete

  • For those who wish to prepare fully  to work as a Group  facilitator of Ecotherapy, STILL NO PREREQUISITES NEEDED

  • Complete your community placement anywhere in the world 

  • Includes an optional opportunity to attend a face-to-face residential in either Australia or Aotearoa/NZ

    4 extra Modules
    AUD$1500 NOW $750

    TOTAL AUD$3000 ( pay per module, better than a payment plan)

  • NOW $1500

—
When we dare to face the cruel social and ecological realities we have been accustomed to, courage is born and powers within us are liberated to reimagine and even, perhaps one day, rebuild a world.

Joanna Macy, Entering the Bardo
—

Ecotherapy is Emerging!

There are so many ways to apply Ecotherapy emerging, including;

  • Ecotourism/transformational and regenerative travel

  • Re-Wilding playgroups/kids nature groups/forest school

  • Women’s/Men's healing groups

  • Mental health support

  • Mindfulness in Nature

Photo credit and Earthart — Kelly Jarvis

SO much is unique about these bespoke, in-depth, online studies in Ecotherapy!

  • Payments per module as you go ( better than a payment plan!)

  • Contemplative and reflective spaces that allow Nature to inform your learning

  • Inspired by global Indigenous connections with Nature

  • Has a local AND global focus, and can be completed from anywhere worldwide.

  • Does not require any prerequisites

    Practitioner-developed to ensure a vocational focus

  • A creative core, informed by eco-art therapy and ecopoetics

  • Assignments can be completed in diverse ways, including voice recordings, poetry, song, dance, art/earthart, prose, photography etc.

  • Recognition of prior learning is considered

    A WhatsApp student group to share assignments, decolonising learning

  • The lineage of Ecopsychology is explored according to Andy Fisher ( Radical Ecopsychology Psychology in the service of life ), originating from:

    • Deep Ecology/Eco-feminism/Transpersonal Psychology

.An Ecotherapy Code of Ethics & Childsafe Compliance Policy

As a collective learning communitas, we have produced a Eartheart Ecotherapy Ethos as a  Code of Ethics.  We have also formulated a Childsafe compliance Policy in accordance with National Standards in Australia and internationally.

Professional insurance for Ecotherapy

Student membership with the International Institute of Complimentary Therapies recognize the Modality of Ecotherapy, and grant you access to both Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurances.

Readings

The reading list includes books, podcasts etc. from current practitioners, researchers, and Indigenous wisdom keepers such as Joanna Macy Uncle Bob Randall, Tyson Yunkaporta, Theodore Roszak,  Linda Buzzell, Craig Chalquist, Ken Wilbur, Terry Patten, Andy Fisher, Vandana Shiva, Val Plumwood, John Seed, Glenn Albrecht, David Abram, Bill Plotkin, David Key and others, shaping the emergence of Ecotherapy.

Why groupwork

“I am because you are”
— Ubuntu teaching from Africa.

We are all connected in the web of life, though we may not feel it. The energy of groups wakes you up to this truth.  Groupwork works actively with what Thich Nhat Hanh calls INTERBEING - the oneness of all life. Working in groups reduces individualism and the conditions for human exceptionalism to infiltrate our consciousness.  

Thomas Hubl, author of Attuned Practising Interdependence to heal our trauma and our World, a and expert on Collective Trauma & Healing says our superpower is our ability to connect with others is the magic of connection that we can harness intentionally in groupwork, which has powerful healing potentials.

Why online?

  • Accessibility - study from anywhere

  • Cheaper - more doable for more people

  • Reduce travel miles and carbon footprint

  • Complete coursework and assignments in and be informed by Nature