Not ready for the commitment of a full 8-day vision fast? Join us for a shorter yet powerful weekend of guided, nature-based reflection on the intention of your choice. Move through ritual phases of reflection, transformation, and integration with a group of like-minded others. Return with clarity, insight, and renewal.

This beginner’s backpacking trip is designed to help participants learn basic travel and survival skills, play with the experience of silence, and gain insight about their capabilities going off grid. If you have questions about whether this trip is appropriate for your physical capabilities - please reach out!

Join us at Gambrill State Park for a single night Camp Fire Council event! We are hosting a free campfire meal and inviting our community to deepen their bond with one another and with nature. Join us for a semi-structured evening of campfire council: the lost art of communing for storytelling.

Wondering what the hype is all about? Curious about what participating in nature-based mental health programs and services would feel like? Join us for a virtual Q&A to learn more about the science of nature-informed therapy and how it's distinct and complementary to traditional forms of western psychotherapy. 

This 8-day wilderness retreat functions as a Ceremony of Becoming, allowing participants to leave behind their daily lives and move into a ceremonial space that brings you face to face with your deepest truth with the help of nature, experienced guides and a small community of individuals.

This monthly support group offers a compassionate space for women-identified adults to share, process, and learn with the intention of living a more empowering life. Meetings are offered in a hybrid format including virtual meetings and nature-based gatherings when the sun allows.

Join us for a 5-week group on parental wounds and the ways they influence our relationship to ourselves and others. The book Mother Hunger  will be central to weekly discussions about attachment patterns, the use of surrogate sources of soothing, and strategies for self re-parenting and breaking unhelpful relationship cycles.

Join us for a gender-inclusive 6-week group study on somatic healing practices. Group discussion will be grounded in the book Returning Home to Our Bodies which explores the role of white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices. Somatic skills and practice offered in group.

In partnership with ThorpeWood, Outdoor Therapeutics will be co-facilitating a county-wide Creative Problem Solving event to address the question of how we increase the number of Frederick County community members that value and benefit from a bond with nature.

This 8-day wilderness retreat functions as a Ceremony of Becoming, allowing participants to leave behind their daily lives and move into a ceremonial space that brings you face to face with your deepest truth with the help of nature, experienced guides and a small community of individuals.

This beginner’s Day Hike is based on the Four Shields of Human Nature framework and provides participants with an opportunity to be in deep conversation with the natural world in order to gain insights, gifts, and clarity about who they are and what they offer the world.

This beginner’s backpacking trip is designed to help participants to learn basic travel and survival skills and to play with experiences of silence, solitude, and communing with nature for mental and physical wellness.

This training delves into the heart of biophilia - the human affinity for nature - and its crucial role in developing secure attachments and healing trauma. This immersive program co-sponsored with CNIT equips mental health professionals with innovative, nature-based tools and techniques

Join us for a gender-inclusive weekly discussion of one of the most profound literary works on masculinity. This book challenges patriarchal culture and the ways in which it has impacted men's healthy connection to themselves and others and encourages men to use their pain to reclaim the best part of themselves.

Anxious or burned out? Finding it difficult to stay calm on the job and to feel alive after work? This FREE workshop invites teachers - new and seasoned - to gain skills for regulating their emotions and bodies inside and outside of the classroom. Join us for education and practice in working with your nervous system using Somatic Experiencing techniques.

This is a beginner level trip to the Little Orleans, MD area. Our excursions are led by certified nature-informed therapists and they are designed to support growth in the areas of mindfulness, deep reciprocal relationships with nature and technical wilderness skills.

Retreat participants will experience a quiet rural get away at Fox House among the rolling hills of Fox Haven Farm and Learning Center. Lodging, meals, mindfulness activities, discussion and facilitated time in nature are provided.

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A therapeutic gardening program for teens (ages 13-18) combines evidenced-based therapeutic treatment with horticulture skill-building to help young people explore and improve issues related to self-esteem, mood, and relationships.

Retreat participants will experience a quiet rural get away at Fox House among the rolling hills of Fox Haven Farm and Learning Center. Lodging, meals, mindfulness activities, discussion and facilitated time in nature are provided.

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This is a sensory-rich experience for connecting with nature and other women struggling with personal and professional burnout. All groups are offered outdoors in order to deepen participants' relationships with nature as a co-therapist.

This is a beginner level trip to the Little Orleans, MD area. Our excursions are led by certified nature-informed therapists and they are designed to support growth in the areas of mindfulness, deep reciprocal relationships with nature and technical wilderness skills.