Nature connection take home booklet(4 page pdf) created as part of the Sunshine Coast Libraries lifelong learning program (March 2022) and U3A Sunshine Coast short course (July 2022)

5 Pathways to Nature Connectedness postcard (2 page pdf) from University of Derby, their Nature Connection Handbook for practitioners (39 page pdf) and their free online course Nature Connectedness: For a New Relationship With Nature (20 hours)

• Essential Nature Connection (Sunshine Coast)

• Three Little Birds Nature Therapy (NSW/QLD coastal border)

• Outdoor Spirit Eco Tour Agency (Brisbane northside)

• Heartwood Nature bathing (Brisbane & Gold Coast hinterland)

• DIY nature therapy walks in Brisbane Bowen Bridge Heritage Trail, Victoria Park Go Slow for a Mo’

• Nature Journaling workshops and resources PaperbarkWriter, Journaling with Nature, Petra Meer Arts

• see also Back to Nature (ABC TV 30 minute episodes)

*if you’re a guide in Queensland, please get in touch! I’d love to meet you and for this list to be longer!

• Nature Wellbeing Australia (provide a free downloadable booklet including a 21 day nature connection challenge when you subscribe)

• Find guides elsewhere in Australia & the world:

  • ANFT map of guides

  • Forest Therapy Hub map of guides

  • Forest Bathing Finder

• Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT) (where I trained)

• Nature Connection Guide

• Forest Therapy Hub

• International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance

• ABC explainer article: The danger of climate grief lies in the fact it is often ignored

• The Work that Reconnects (Joanna Macy’s deep ecology movement) & Active Hope (free online course - “How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy”)

• What to do with dread and anxiety about climate change from Greater Good Magazine (psychology explained for general public and resources for educators)

• Resources for working with climate emotions (from Gen Dread & All We Can Save Project)

• Psychology for a Safe Climate (Australian. Support facing the reality of the climate emergency and find climate-aware practitioners)

• Climate Psychology Alliance (to find psychologists who are prepared to face the difficult truths about climate change and ecological crisis)

• Climate Awakening (climate emotions conversations)

• Deep Adaptation (community for embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament)

• Teaching Psychology for Sustainability (resources for general public and educators)

• Climate 7 (Australian resources for schools and families)