Projects
Health & Wellness Services
Osterloh
Nature Connection Lab partners with Osterloh, a Bavarian mindfulness center, to bring nature connection workshops to students and teachers. By experimenting with ecowellness activities, teachers and students explore the connection between personal experiences in nature and pro-environmental attitudes and mental health and well-being. Nearby nature becomes a resource for learning and student flourishing.
Initiatives, Workshops & presentations
University of Virginia, Women’s Center
Six part Nature-Nurture Stress Relief Program for undergraduate students
Talk at the Medical Center Rounds on the role of community-based nature play initiatives in mental health
National Association of Social Workers - Presentations
Nature as Co-therapist: Ecotherapy in Clinical Practice
Nature Connection for Mental Health
Guided Ecotherapy Break
College of William and Mary
Ecotherapy retreats in the Blue Ridge foothillls
Green micro-break trail for stress relief
Wildrock, a nonprofit Nature Play and Discovery Center
Park-Hop with a Doc program in partnership with local pediatricians
Nature Play C’ville Map and Park Prescription program in partnership with UVA’s School of Architecture
Nature play lab program in all city elementary schools for equitable access to health-promoting nature play
Nature play mapping project with local elementary schools
Homecoming, a traveling interactive exhibit for schoolyard field trips inspiring the concept of caretaking for animal habitats
Preschool trail in city park for family bonding in nature
Forest bathing retreats for the Center for Non-Profit Excellence
Trainings for local teachers, mental health centers, alcohol treatment centers, and more
Ecotherapy retreats for local mental health agency
Trainings for local therapists in nature therapy