When you begin your journey, you will take a core training course that lasts six months. Your cohort of up to 30 trainees will be people who live in the same or a nearby time zone. This geographic and time zone way of gathering as a group makes it convenient to connect with your trainers and each other via remote technologies like Zoom.
In this training, you will learn:
You will be supported in live calls by some of the worlds most experienced forest therapy guides and trainers. The learning platform is very user-friendly with many types of content, including videos, reading, field assignments, live discussions, and more.
If you wish, you will also be added to the Forest Therapy Facebook Group, a private group for ANFT trained guides from throughout the world. This group is a remarkable and very active resource for exchanging information and supporting ongoing learning. ANFT certified guides can now be found in 55 countries. These local guides are a resource for trainees to experience being guided. You can harvest a lot of practical wisdom from them. They love to help new trainees!
You will also have access to a growing library of ANFT training materials such as videos. To further support your learning, you will be invited to join a “pod” of three to five others in your cohort. Many pods develop interesting and fun ways to deepen their learning process. Often lifetime friendships grow.To the extent possible, we will try to organize pods based on your proximity to each other; this will maximize your ability to meet in person and explore forest trails and forest therapy methods together.
When you complete the core six-month training you will be an ANFT-Certified Forest Therapy Guide. This certification is valid for two years, or until you complete a four-day immersion. This must be completed sometime within two years after you complete the six month core training course. This will move your certification from provisional to permanent status. Immersions are organized by local trainers. Dates and locations will be set as the time for the intensive draws near. We’ll be looking at the weather and other factors when we choose dates. It is quite likely that you will meet trainees from other cohorts at your immersion. This will help to give you a sense of the community of guides that has grown and is active throughout the world.
When you begin your journey, you will take a core training course that lasts six months. Your cohort of up to 30 trainees will be people who live in the same or a nearby time zone. This geographic and time zone way of gathering as a group makes it convenient to connect with your trainers and each other via remote technologies like Zoom.
In this training, you will learn:
You will be supported in live calls by some of the worlds most experienced forest therapy guides and trainers. The learning platform is very user-friendly with many types of content, including videos, reading, field assignments, live discussions, and more.
If you wish, you will also be added to the Forest Therapy Facebook Group, a private group for ANFT trained guides from throughout the world. This group is a remarkable and very active resource for exchanging information and supporting ongoing learning. ANFT certified guides can now be found in 55 countries. These local guides are a resource for trainees to experience being guided. You can harvest a lot of practical wisdom from them. They love to help new trainees!
You will also have access to a growing library of ANFT training materials such as videos. To further support your learning, you will be invited to join a “pod” of three to five others in your cohort. Many pods develop interesting and fun ways to deepen their learning process. Often lifetime friendships grow.To the extent possible, we will try to organize pods based on your proximity to each other; this will maximize your ability to meet in person and explore forest trails and forest therapy methods together.
When you complete the core six-month training you will be an ANFT-Certified Forest Therapy Guide. This certification is valid for two years, or until you complete a four-day immersion. This must be completed sometime within two years after you complete the six month core training course. This will move your certification from provisional to permanent status. Immersions are organized by local trainers. Dates and locations will be set as the time for the intensive draws near. We’ll be looking at the weather and other factors when we choose dates. It is quite likely that you will meet trainees from other cohorts at your immersion. This will help to give you a sense of the community of guides that has grown and is active throughout the world.
The tuition for the six month coreguide training program is $2995 USD.
The tuition for the four-dayimmersion is $495. Wait to pay until you are ready to register for a specificimmersion. You will have two years from the completion of your core guidetraining to do the immersion.
Other costs include payment forWilderness First Aid training, which is required for Certification, and isprovided by third parties. Prices range from $100 to $300. Lodging or campingfees and food for the four-day immersion are the responsibility of the trainee.
Tuition figures are current as of January 1, 2021 and are subject to change.
Ronna Schneberger ha sido una naturalista, intérprete y guía de senderismo galardonada profesionalmente en los parques de montaña canadienses durante 25 años. Es profesora de yoga desde hace 20 años y en la última década incorporó el yoga, la meditación y el coaching en la naturaleza. Los resultados fueron profundos. En su búsqueda por comprender por qué el tiempo en la naturaleza crea fácilmente experiencias poderosas, se convirtió en Guía de Terapia Forestal con ANFT, una de las primeras en Canadá. Ronna es formadora y mentora de guías de terapia forestal. Es profesora de Desarrollo de Liderazgo en el Centro Banff, donde trabaja con líderes, profesionales y ejecutivos de todo el mundo utilizando la naturaleza como maestra para crear poderosas reflexiones y transformaciones. Ella es la presidenta del Consejo Canadiense ANFT, junto con su equipo; espera poder promover la Terapia Forestal en Canadá.
Marcela es mentora, entrenadora y guía certificada de Terapia de Bosque por la Asociación de Terapia de Bosque y Naturaleza (ANFT). Tiene estudios en Antropología, Manejo de Recursos Naturales y es guía de turismo con licencia del Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT). También es instructora certificada de Hatha-Iyengar Yoga. Por más de veinte años ha trabajado como guía de naturalismo y observación de aves en el bosque nuboso de Monteverde, Costa Rica, donde vive con su familia. Marcela trabaja como supervisora de pasantías en el Programa de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente del CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) y ha colaborado con el Programa de Educación Ambiental del Centro Científico Tropical (CCT) y Corclima.
Nacida y criada en San José, desde muy joven adoptó un estilo de vida que le permitiera la libertad de estar en contacto directo con la naturaleza. Fue en los bosques de Monteverde y en la comunidad Cuáquera de la zona que encontró un balance perfecto de riqueza natural y un estilo de vida simple. La mayor parte del tiempo la encontrarás trabajando en el bosque, en la Galería de Arte de la familia, cultivando hierbas en la huerta, o practicando y enseñando Qi Gong y Yoga. Su pasión es compartir con las personas la sabiduría de los bosques que conoce y ama, ayudándoles a conectar con su esencia de una manera gentil y auténtica.