Upcoming Trainings & Programs
Explore all upcoming Forest Therapy School offerings in one place, including online and in-person guide trainings, retreats, workshops, info sessions, and community gatherings. Whether you’re beginning your path or returning to deepen your practice, this is where you’ll find what’s coming next.
Maine: In-Person Training Retreat
August 25–30, 2026
Join us in Maine for an immersive in-person Forest Therapy Guide Training retreat at Medomak. This meaningful certification experience offers live instruction, guided practice, shared meals, and time among the pines, lake, and late-summer landscape of a very special place for learning and deepening into this work.
The Forest Therapy School Info Session
September 10 at 6:00pm ET
Join us on Zoom for a live Forest Therapy Guide Training Info Session. Meet The Forest Therapy School, learn more about our upcoming online and in-person certification programs, and bring your questions about the path to becoming a forest therapy guide.
North Carolina: In-Person Training Retreat
September 16 to 19, 2026
Join us for an immersive in-person Forest Therapy Guide Training retreat at RambleRill Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina. This meaningful certification experience offers live instruction, guided practice, shared meals, and spacious time among the woods, fields, and working farm landscape as you deepen into the work of forest therapy guiding.
Fall 2026: 7-Week Online Training Retreat
September 30 to November 12, 2026
Begin your certification path from home with our live online Forest Therapy Guide Training, September 30–November 12, 2026. This 7-week online training includes a 3.5-day at-home retreat experience, live instruction, guided nature connection practices, optional embodiment practices, and a 6-week mentored practicum.
Winter 2027: 16-Week Online Forest Therapy Guide Training
January 2027 Session I + II
Join the interest list for our January 2027 live online Forest Therapy Guide Training. This 16-week certification program offers a spacious path into the practice of forest therapy guiding, with live instruction, guided nature connection practices, embodiment practices, community learning, and a mentored practicum from home.
PA: In-Person Training Retreat in Brandywine Valley
April 28 - May 2, 2027
Join us in “America’s Garden Capital” for 5 days this Spring 2027 for an in-person Forest Therapy Guide Training retreat at in beautiful Brandywine Valley. 6-Week live mentored practicum runs May 5 to June 9. This immersive certification program includes live instruction, guided practice, shared meals, and time exploring the gardens and natural spaces during Spring in Brandywine Valley.
Spring 2027: 7-Week Online Training Retreat
May 2027 - Dates TBD.
Join the interest list for our May 2027 live online Forest Therapy Guide Training. Begin your certification path from home with our live online Forest Therapy Guide Training, May 2027 dates announced soon. This 7-week online training includes a 3.5-day at-home retreat experience, live instruction, guided nature connection practices, optional embodiment practices, and a 6-week mentored practicum.
UK: In-Person Training Retreat at The Falcon at Castle Ashby
July 22 - 26, 2027
Join us for an incredible Forest Therapy Retreat Training in the English countryside at historic Castle Ashby for 5 days in July 2027. This immersive certification program includes access to all the holistic wellness services The Falcon has to offer plus live instruction, guided forest walks, shared meals, and time among the lakes and summer landscape of Northampshire, UK.