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educations On the rest of this page you will find a list (in alphabetical order!) Of the different courses that exist 'world forest'. Be sure to let us know via the contact form if a course is missing. In addition, you will also find a list of extra training courses that are often useful or even asked to obtain a certificate from ANFT, such as the Wilderness First Aid Training. Academy for Healing Nature This Belgian academy organizes the training to become a shinrin-yoku guide every year. The training runs over 6 months and consists of an intensive 5-day course followed by separate training days and practical. The theoretical deepening and the experience-oriented structure of the training offer a broad baggage, skills and techniques with which the guide can then set to work with confidence. https://www.academie-voor-helende-natuur.be Academy for Healing Nature This Belgian academy organizes the training to become a shinrin-yoku guide every year. The training runs over 6 months and consists of an intensive 5-day course followed by separate training days and practical. The theoretical deepening and the experience-oriented structure of the training offer a broad baggage, skills and techniques with which the guide can then set to work with confidence. https://www.academie-voor-helende-natuur.be Academy for Healing Nature This Belgian academy organizes the training to become a shinrin-yoku guide every year. The training runs over 6 months and consists of an intensive 5-day course followed by separate training days and practical. The theoretical deepening and the experience-oriented structure of the training offer a broad baggage, skills and techniques with which the guide can then set to work with confidence. https://www.academie-voor-helende-natuur.be Academy for Healing Nature This Belgian academy organizes the training to become a shinrin-yoku guide every year. The training runs over 6 months and consists of an intensive 5-day course followed by separate training days and practical. The theoretical deepening and the experience-oriented structure of the training offer a broad baggage, skills and techniques with which the guide can then set to work with confidence. https://www.academie-voor-helende-natuur.be Academy for Healing Nature This Belgian academy organizes the training to become a shinrin-yoku guide every year. The training runs over 6 months and consists of an intensive 5-day course followed by separate training days and practical. The theoretical deepening and the experience-oriented structure of the training offer a broad baggage, skills and techniques with which the guide can then set to work with confidence. https://www.academie-voor-helende-natuur.be Association of Forest & Nature Therapy (ANFT) North American organization that organizes on-site training (anywhere in the world), followed by a 6-month practical. You will not receive your certificate until you have followed a WFA training. They draw inspiration from Japan and North American indigenous culture. https://www.natureandforesttherapy.org/ Forest Therapy Institute (FTI) Just like ANFT, FTI organizes courses that consist of an on-site training, followed by a practicum of 3 months (forest pool guide) and 6 months (forest therapy guide). https://foresttherapyinstitute.com/ Association of Forest & Nature Therapy (ANFT) North American organization that organizes on-site training (anywhere in the world), followed by a 6-month practical. You will not receive your certificate until you have followed a WFA training. They draw inspiration from Japan and North American indigenous culture. https://www.natureandforesttherapy.org/ Forest Mind (Mestämieli) Forest Mind was founded in Finland by Sirpa Arvonen, who has written and published 4 books on this topic since 2014. This Forest Mind guide training gives you the certification to become a Forest Mind guide and the right to use the supporting materials and branding in your activities. The training is intended for people from the health and social sector and / or the nature sector. http://metsamieli.fi/Forestmind-fi/ Shinrin-Yoku Academy Natascha Boudewijn of the Shinrin-Yoku Academy gives annual courses in the Netherlands. Flemish people also make the crossing to the center of the Netherlands to receive lessons from her. https://shinrin-yoku-academy.nl Natural Mindfulness Guide Training This English-language, (always) online training of 21 days has the experience-connect-share as key points. The course is structured in such a way that you can perfect it in your own time frame. Being in connection with Nature, and thus also with your own Nature. You can then pass on this experience as a guide to your audience / clients, who in turn share their experience with you and / or the group. https://www.ianbanyard.com/home/guide-training/ Additional training The above training courses can be supplemented with training on game harvesting, herbs & plant knowledge, Wilderness first aid training and so on. We only list the training that takes place in Belgium and (more south of) the Netherlands. Click on the image to visit the website. Be sure to let us know via the contact form if you know of more training. Wilderness First Aid Trainings Unknown Come later Rewilding Mike organizes various day courses for wild harvesting in the Kempen. Rewilding Drum Kiki and Bert van Leuven organize and coach courses, workshops and retreats. Herbal course Lieve Galle organizes courses, workshops and guided walks. Forest to Plate The goal of Forest To Plate is to educate people in the wonderful world of wild edible plants and show them the possibilities.

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In dit artikel vertelt een gezondheidspsycholoog in spe hoe bosbaden kan bijdragen tot je geestelijke gezondheid, het verschil tussen geestelijke gezondheid en ongezondheid en andere interessante dingen. How the Celtic annual festivals can give an in-depth accent to a forest pool By Emmy Schockaert - www.barrevoets.be March 16, 2021 Like an onion The intense nature connection that you can experience during a forest bath is very special. As a forest bathing guide, I love the moment when I see the participants merge with the forest and with themselves. You can see it in their eyes that get a little glassy and the blissful smile playing on their faces. It strikes me time and again that this moment of connection usually already takes place during the beginning of the forest pool. From that moment on, a hidden gate opens up somewhere in us through which the forest can easily penetrate into us, deeper and deeper. I like to compare the experience with an onion of which we remove a peel more and more during the forest bath to eventually reach the core. Each forest pool is different and each participant experiences a forest pool in his own unique way. And every forest bathing guide is also different and has its own specific accent in his / her offer. What I think we all have in common are the basic ingredients of a forest bath, namely the stillness, slowing down and the conscious opening of the senses so that the atmosphere can flow into the forest. In addition, there is a whole range of different ingredients that forest bathing guides use to create their own style. Special ingredient What I love as a 'special ingredient' are the Celtic seasonal festivals. Since my early years, these parties have been an important guideline and that is why it is a matter of course to weave them into the Barrevoets offer. They act as coat hangers around which I build my walks (but also by extension my life). Our Celtic and Germanic ancestors (by extension all natural peoples) probably did not know a word like 'nature connection' at all, they were so intensely one with nature in a way that we do not know today that such words were completely unnecessary. I don't see them agreeing to go forest bathing 😊 That is precisely why their past offers such a rich source of inspiration to integrate into nature-connecting activities such as forest bathing. The cycles of their annual celebrations are like gateways that open a profound connection with the natural world and with our own true natural inner world - our inner landscape. As a forest bathing guide and nature coach, I like to lift the veils that hang around these gates a bit and make them visible to the participants. For example, some of the invitations or exercises that shape the forest pool each time become a small ceremony or ritual that serves as anchor points to internalize that from the outside world. The seasonal parties are, as it were, a kind of natural mirror where we can become aware of what is really going on, separate from the everyday, but linked to the transition from one to the other. They are linked to change, to transitions and can help us to make contact within ourselves with what we want to change, renew, process. Ancient roots My experience with integrating the seasonal parties in a forest pool or nature coaching is that it brings an in-depth accent. By integrating a touch of our common ancestry, we also connect with our ancient common roots. It is plugging into our collective rhythm that lies deep within us, stored in our genes. Celebrating the feasts together connects the generations: we inherit the customs of our ancestors and at the same time we give them to our children. In this way we are connected with the past and with the future through honoring the old traditions, while we are just very mindful in the now. This writing makes me curious about where fellow forest bathing guides place their emphasis. What different ways does the forest bath world have? What effect does this have on the participants? How does this translate into their natural connection? Fascinating! --- Emmy Schockaert is a creative forest bathing guide / nature coach. She mainly guides in forests in the Flemish Ardennes. She is also the driving force behind Barrevoets . Nature is her passion and green thread in life. With Barrevoets she wants to be a link in the connection between man and nature. She combines her training as a nature guide, herbalist, nature coach and forest bathing guide (Shinrin Yoku / Metzamieli) in guided hikes. It is not walking but the slowing down, stillness and stimulation of the senses central. Emmy likes to use our Celtic background as a guide. The seasons and the rhythm in nature are her source of inspiration. She also often works with CM . You can follow her on facebook and instagram . Her website: www.barrevoets.be Figuur 1: Tweevoudig continuüm model, bron: Gezond Leven Geestelijke gezondheidsbevordering Bij geestelijke gezondheidsbevordering wordt ingezet op protectieve factoren en letterlijk het versterken van de geestelijke gezondheid door handvatten aan te reiken rond aspecten die mensen zelf kunnen beïnvloeden. Bijvoorbeeld het aanbieden van stress reducerende activiteiten of oefeningen om jezelf beter te leren kennen. Het neemt een unieke positie in binnen het domein van de geestelijke gezondheid naast preventie van ziekte, zorg en nazorg (8) (zie figuur 2). En het bestaat uit tal van acties en interventies die de wortels van geestelijke ongezondheid aanpakt, door in te zetten op het versterken van mentaal welbevinden en veerkracht. Figuur 2 Mental health intervention spectrum. SOURCE: Adapted from Institute of Medicine (1994, p. 23). Bosbaden en geestelijke gezondheidsbevordering Bosbaden wordt tot nu toe vooral ingezet ter preventie van ziekte en curatieve praktijken, waarin de nadruk ligt op het verminderen van geestelijke ongezondheid (9). De effecten van bosbaden op het mentaal welbevinden van mensen wordt minder benadrukt. Het zou interessant zijn om te bekijken hoe bosbaden kan bijdragen aan een optimale positieve gezondheid. Uit talrijke studies komt naar voren dat bosbaden ook voor mensen zonder ernstige psychische klachten of stoornissen van belang kan zijn. Zo blijkt dat tijd in de natuur het concentratievermogen herstelt (10). Verder vermindert een veilige natuurlijke omgeving stress (11) en versterkt het het immuunsysteem (12). Daarnaast kan het helpen om onze emoties te reguleren door het verzachtende en kalmerende karakter van de natuur op de mens (13). Hoewel verder onderzoek noodzakelijk is wijzen deze voorbeelden er alvast op dat bosbaden ook binnen een gezondheidsbevorderende context ingezet kan worden. Niet alleen ter preventie en curatie van ziekten, maar ook om mensen de nodige instrumenten aan te reiken die helpen om stressvolle situaties in het dagdagelijks leven aan te kunnen of om tot rust te komen. Met de subsidieaanvraag die we met enkele gidsen en andere experten in lente 2021 naar Innoviris hebben gestuurd, hopen we hiermee aan de slag te kunnen gaan in Brussel. Dit wordt hopelijk vervolgd. Bronnen en voetnoten: (1) Mental Health Foundation. (2016). Fundamental facts about mental health 2016. London: Author. (2) Antonovsky, A. (1996). The salutogenic model as a theory to guide health promotion1. Health Promotion International, 11(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/11.1.11 (3) https://www.gezondleven.be/themas/mentaal-welbevinden (4) Dit sluit aan bij de definitie van positieve gezondheid (ZonMw, 2009) (5) Matarazzo, J. D. (1982). Behavioral health’s challenge to academic, scientific, and professional psychology. American Psychologist, 37, 1–14. (6) Cattan & Tilford, 2006 (7) Keyes, 2005; Soyez et al. 2020 (8) O’Connell, M. E., Boat, T., & Warner, K. E. (2009). Preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people: Progress and possibilities. (9) https://www.bosbadenvlaanderen.com/bosbaden (10) Kaplan, S. (1995). The restorative benefits of nature: toward an integrative framework. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15(3), 169–182. (11) Ulrich, R. S., Simons, R. F., Losito, B. D., Fiorito, E., Miles, M. A., & Zelson, M. (1991). Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 11(3), 201–230. (12) Song, C., Ikei, H., Tsunetsugu, Y., Lee, J., Kagawa, T., & Miyazaki, Y. (2013a). Physiological and psychological impacts of walking stress in an urban environment on young males. Journal of Geography and Natural Disasters, 3, 113. (13) Richardson, M., McEwan, K., Maratos, F., & Sheffield, D. (2016). Joy and calm: how an evolutionary functional model of affect regulation informs positive emotions in nature. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2(4), 308–320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-016-0065-5.

Forest bathing has also taken root in Belgium. The definition of forest baths includes all preventive or curative practices that take place in the forest environment. Terms you often hear are shinrinyoku, forest bathing, forest therapy, forest mindfulness, forest mind and so on ... This can all be quite confusing. These practices have a similar characteristic: they aim to stimulate as many senses as possible. Many practitioners will slowly sharpen their capacity of feeling. As a result, our body relaxes and ultimately the mind relaxes and clarifies as well. Forest therapy goes a step further. You can call it forest baths, but not every forest pool can be called forest therapy. In forest therapy, the forest becomes the therapist who gives the practitioner what he or she needs. Forest therapy guides provide a comfortable and safe environment for the practitioner to find his or her own medicine, at his / her pace. Click on one of the right buttons to discover more. We don't want to reinvent water. There are already many articles and books about forest baths. Also in Dutch. That is why we bundle all information sources together on a few pages. We also recommend that you sign up for our newsletter . This way you will gradually learn more about forest baths. Not all buttons work yet; because the website is still under construction. If it is in orange, it means it is not ready yet. But we will already show you what we are working on. (Last update: May 15, 2020) Forest Baths: An Answer For? Forest baths for your health: prevention Forest baths for your health: help with healing Forest baths against loneliness Why should I pay for a guide? How do I choose the right guide? Forest baths in Belgian media Books about forest baths I want to become a guide. What now? When can I join the forest baths? More about forest baths abroad

How the Celtic annual festivals can give an in-depth accent to a forest pool Like an onion The intense nature connection that you can experience during a forest bath is very special. As a forest bathing guide, I love the moment when I see the participants merge with the forest and with themselves. You can see it in their eyes that get a little glassy and the blissful smile playing on their faces. It strikes me time and again that this moment of connection usually already takes place during the beginning of the forest pool. From that moment on, a hidden gate opens up somewhere in us through which the forest can easily penetrate into us, deeper and deeper. I like to compare the experience with an onion of which we remove a peel more and more during the forest bath to eventually reach the core. Each forest pool is different and each participant experiences a forest pool in his own unique way. And every forest bathing guide is also different and has its own specific accent in his / her offer. What I think we all have in common are the basic ingredients of a forest bath, namely the stillness, slowing down and the conscious opening of the senses so that the atmosphere can flow into the forest. In addition, there is a whole range of different ingredients that forest bathing guides use to create their own style. Special ingredient What I love as a 'special ingredient' are the Celtic seasonal festivals. Since my early years, these parties have been an important guideline and that is why it is a matter of course to weave them into the Barrevoets offer. They act as coat hangers around which I build my walks (but also by extension my life). Our Celtic and Germanic ancestors (by extension all natural peoples) probably did not know a word like 'nature connection' at all, they were so intensely one with nature in a way that we do not know today that such words were completely unnecessary. I don't see them agreeing to go forest bathing 😊 That is precisely why their past offers such a rich source of inspiration to integrate into nature-connecting activities such as forest bathing. The cycles of their annual celebrations are like gateways that open a profound connection with the natural world and with our own true natural inner world - our inner landscape. As a forest bathing guide and nature coach, I like to lift the veils that hang around these gates a bit and make them visible to the participants. For example, some of the invitations or exercises that shape the forest pool each time become a small ceremony or ritual that serves as anchor points to internalize that from the outside world. The seasonal parties are, as it were, a kind of natural mirror where we can become aware of what is really going on, separate from the everyday, but linked to the transition from one to the other. They are linked to change, to transitions and can help us to make contact within ourselves with what we want to change, renew, process. Ancient roots My experience with integrating the seasonal parties in a forest pool or nature coaching is that it brings an in-depth accent. By integrating a touch of our common ancestry, we also connect with our ancient common roots. It is plugging into our collective rhythm that lies deep within us, stored in our genes. Celebrating the feasts together connects the generations: we inherit the customs of our ancestors and at the same time we give them to our children. In this way we are connected with the past and with the future through honoring the old traditions, while we are just very mindful in the now. This writing makes me curious about where fellow forest bathing guides place their emphasis. What different ways does the forest bath world have? What effect does this have on the participants? How does this translate into their natural connection? Fascinating! --- Emmy Schockaert is a creative forest bathing guide / nature coach. She mainly guides in forests in the Flemish Ardennes. She is also the driving force behind Barrevoets . Nature is her passion and green thread in life. With Barrevoets she wants to be a link in the connection between man and nature. She combines her training as a nature guide, herbalist, nature coach and forest bathing guide (Shinrin Yoku / Metzamieli) in guided hikes. It is not walking but the slowing down, stillness and stimulation of the senses central. Emmy likes to use our Celtic background as a guide. The seasons and the rhythm in nature are her source of inspiration. She also often works with CM . You can follow her on facebook and instagram . Her website: www.barrevoets.be By Emmy Schockaert - www.barrevoets.be March 16, 2021

Wereldwoud is the 'overarching' project of Wendy Wuyts. Working as a volunteer on this portal website falls under 'world forest', but also organizing circle moments, writing creative stories, helping partner organizations and so on. Communication: Instagram account (since spring 2019) 'world forest' English blog (since autumn 2018) ' woodwidewebstories' Forest baths: See the separate page about forest baths . Virtual Circle and learning moments: Root-wise (February 21 to December 21, 2021) Re-rooting (February 22 to December 22, 2021, in English) A guest at: 5th Earthwise Circle (February 9, 2021): The role of ecolinguistics and the stories we live with The Nature of Cities Festival 2021 exhibition, with work 'A pine tree in the Campine' (end of February 2021) Virtual Forest therapy Guide (April 12-13) at 5th International Conference on Ecolinguistics Podcasts: Climate festival Antwerp # 14 Circular economy: what can we learn from nature? (July 2020) Inspiring Different: # 38 Forest Therapy Guides Make Better Lovers? (February 2021) - or see the podcasts page Publications on the Internet MO * magazine - zeronauten blogs (selection of the most relevant for the forest baths website): Even on the last day of the world I will still plant trees (November 2020) When a white nature person wanted to write about whiteness (June 2020) Hay fever in times of corona (and tree sexism) (April 2020) On foraging and Dòigh Nàdair, the Scottish way of nature (March 2020) Tree Time in Scotland (March 2020) Doctor, can you prescribe some more forest? (November 2019) Forest baths on samurai trails (June 2019) Uneven Earth - Short story A wood wide web story: an apple tree in Daegu (February 2020) About Wendy: Wendy Wuyts ( instagram @wereldwoud ) is an eco-communicator, a certified forest bathing guide, an academic researcher in environmental science, and writer. She has worked for television and documentary houses, has been writing blogs for Mo * Magazine since 2016 and has already published two fiction books herself: 'Als Meubels Konden Speken' and ' the white dream '. In the writers academy she is working on a third book project. Roots and sense of belonging have been a major theme in her projects for almost fifteen years: as a geographer, she studies the importance of place in our well-being. She is also a serial rooter: she has rooted in various places in the world, received many of those stories of deeper rooted beings in that place, and also given something back. In countries such as the Czech Republic, Japan, Norway and the USA she has built up experience and knowledge in ecolinguistics, ecopsychology, natural philosophy, deep ecology, ecofeminism, intersectional environmentalism and change management. She works as a volunteer, sometimes in tractor roles this portal website (bosbadenvlaanderen.com) international collective of collectors of stories about the relationship between forests and humans (woodwidewebstories.com Bold Burners ( boldbranders.org ) Robur op Den Eik vzw ( https://roburopdeneik.org/ ). International collective of ' Belonging in Belgian Nature ' international collective of ' Health Gardens Brussels ' ...

Als bosbadgids begeleidt Ils regelmatig een bosbad. Hier vertelt ze over haar missie om andere gidsen basiskennis en zelfvertrouwen te geven over wat ze moeten doen bij een ongeval in een meer afgelegen plek. EHBO, is dat zo belangrijk? Door Ils Van Dun 08 oktober 2021 Een ongeval is snel gebeurd. Maar als je meteen hulp biedt, voorkom je vaak erger. Eerste hulp kan echt een verschil maken. Veel mensen hebben niet door dat de eerste minuten na het oplopen van lichamelijk letsel zeer belangrijk zijn. Vaak denkt men dat ze iemand het beste kunnen laten liggen totdat professionele hulp is gearriveerd. Maar, wist je dat het gemiddeld 10 minuten duurt voordat een ambulance op de plek van het ongeval is? In die 10 minuten is het dus heel belangrijk dat een slachtoffer zo snel mogelijk goede hulp krijgt. Dus als je weet hoe je moet reageren in een panieksituatie en je weet wat je moet doen om iemand te helpen kun je in sommige gevallen echt iemands leven redden. Wie ben ik? Ik ben Ils Van Dun, ondertussen werk ik al bijna 20 jaar bij Defensie. Ik werk bij de Medische Dienst als ambulancier / instructeur. De lessen die ik geef zijn basis EHBO aan de militaire ploeghelpers en specifieke EHBO opleidingen. Recent heb ik een opleiding gevolgd tot trainer Wildernis First Aid. Waarom? Voor mijn werk, maar ook in mijn vrije tijd, vind je me heel vaak in de natuur. Als bosbadgids, begeleid ik regelmatig een bosbad. Ik moet jullie niet vertellen dat we toch vaak op afgelegen plaatsen zijn. Heb je al eens over de volgende vraag nagedacht: “Wat als er hier iets gebeurd? Iemand valt, iemand wordt onwel,… Wat doe ik dan?” Als je eerlijk bent, is vaak het antwoord: “geen idee.” Dat is precies waar ik iets wil doen. Het volgen van een EHBO cursus kan dus voor iedereen belangrijk zijn en het is echt niet zo moeilijk als het allemaal lijkt. Vanuit mijn ervaring voorzie ik lessen basis EHBO en Wildernis First Aid, niet omdat ik je wil omtoveren tot dokter, maar om je zelfvertrouwen te geven in bepaalde handelingen. Ik ben er zeker van dat je de handelingen die je leert niet alleen in het bos of de natuur kan gebruiken. Je kan deze thuis, op vakantie,…. Echt overal toepassen. Het leuke aan de lessen is eigenlijk dat het geen standaard EHBO les is. Ik heb er mijn kennis als militair, ambulancier, bosbadgids,… bij in gestoken en dat zorgt soms voor creatieve oplossingen voor minder ernstige letsels. Onwetendheid is vaak de reden voor mensen om niet te handelen en dat is nu net wat ik wil voorkomen. Ben je nieuwsgierig geworden en wil je meer info over een EHBO cursus? Dan kan je me mailen op ilsvandun@gmail.com

In deze blog lees je meer over bosbaden en Authentic Movement. Wat hebben bosbaden en authentic movement met elkaar gemeen? Hoe versterken deze praktijken elkaar? How the Celtic annual festivals can give an in-depth accent to a forest pool By Emmy Schockaert - www.barrevoets.be March 16, 2021 Like an onion The intense nature connection that you can experience during a forest bath is very special. As a forest bathing guide, I love the moment when I see the participants merge with the forest and with themselves. You can see it in their eyes that get a little glassy and the blissful smile playing on their faces. It strikes me time and again that this moment of connection usually already takes place during the beginning of the forest pool. From that moment on, a hidden gate opens up somewhere in us through which the forest can easily penetrate into us, deeper and deeper. I like to compare the experience with an onion of which we remove a peel more and more during the forest bath to eventually reach the core. Each forest pool is different and each participant experiences a forest pool in his own unique way. And every forest bathing guide is also different and has its own specific accent in his / her offer. What I think we all have in common are the basic ingredients of a forest bath, namely the stillness, slowing down and the conscious opening of the senses so that the atmosphere can flow into the forest. In addition, there is a whole range of different ingredients that forest bathing guides use to create their own style. Special ingredient What I love as a 'special ingredient' are the Celtic seasonal festivals. Since my early years, these parties have been an important guideline and that is why it is a matter of course to weave them into the Barrevoets offer. They act as coat hangers around which I build my walks (but also by extension my life). Our Celtic and Germanic ancestors (by extension all natural peoples) probably did not know a word like 'nature connection' at all, they were so intensely one with nature in a way that we do not know today that such words were completely unnecessary. I don't see them agreeing to go forest bathing 😊 That is precisely why their past offers such a rich source of inspiration to integrate into nature-connecting activities such as forest bathing. The cycles of their annual celebrations are like gateways that open a profound connection with the natural world and with our own true natural inner world - our inner landscape. As a forest bathing guide and nature coach, I like to lift the veils that hang around these gates a bit and make them visible to the participants. For example, some of the invitations or exercises that shape the forest pool each time become a small ceremony or ritual that serves as anchor points to internalize that from the outside world. The seasonal parties are, as it were, a kind of natural mirror where we can become aware of what is really going on, separate from the everyday, but linked to the transition from one to the other. They are linked to change, to transitions and can help us to make contact within ourselves with what we want to change, renew, process. Ancient roots My experience with integrating the seasonal parties in a forest pool or nature coaching is that it brings an in-depth accent. By integrating a touch of our common ancestry, we also connect with our ancient common roots. It is plugging into our collective rhythm that lies deep within us, stored in our genes. Celebrating the feasts together connects the generations: we inherit the customs of our ancestors and at the same time we give them to our children. In this way we are connected with the past and with the future through honoring the old traditions, while we are just very mindful in the now. This writing makes me curious about where fellow forest bathing guides place their emphasis. What different ways does the forest bath world have? What effect does this have on the participants? How does this translate into their natural connection? Fascinating! --- Emmy Schockaert is a creative forest bathing guide / nature coach. She mainly guides in forests in the Flemish Ardennes. She is also the driving force behind Barrevoets . Nature is her passion and green thread in life. With Barrevoets she wants to be a link in the connection between man and nature. She combines her training as a nature guide, herbalist, nature coach and forest bathing guide (Shinrin Yoku / Metzamieli) in guided hikes. It is not walking but the slowing down, stillness and stimulation of the senses central. Emmy likes to use our Celtic background as a guide. The seasons and the rhythm in nature are her source of inspiration. She also often works with CM . You can follow her on facebook and instagram . Her website: www.barrevoets.be Het volgen van je eigen ritme In deze drukke wereld waar veel van ons verwacht wordt en we ook veel van onszelf vragen, zijn we soms zo ver van onszelf en onze eigen innerlijke natuur en ritme verwijderd. Bosbaden en authentic movement kunnen ons helpen om ons hier terug mee te verbinden. We stimuleren het zelfgenezend vermogen van ons lichaam, dat precies weet wat goed voor ons is. Daarbij worden er, door te bewegen, ook gevoelens, denkpatronen en eventuele blokkades in beweging gezet. Het meditatieve aspect van zowel bosbaden als authentic movement, maakt dat we sensitiever worden voor je eigen sensaties. Door in verbinding te blijven met ons lichaam en aandachtig te luisteren naar innerlijke impulsen en fysieke sensaties, ben je volledig aanwezig in het moment. Bewustwording van gevoelens en gedachten die op dat moment aanwezig zijn, en de acceptatie hiervan, geven een helder inzicht en brengen je dichter bij je authenticiteit en natuurlijke ritme. Zin om zelf te gaan bosbaden en dansen in het bos? Ik nodig je van harte uit om te genieten van de enorme kracht en schoonheid van de natuur, een moment te nemen om te herbronnen, je zintuigen open te stellen en je te verbinden met de verschillende elementen. En om je van hieruit te laten inspireren tot beweging en authentieke dans in interactie met de natuur tijdens een van de Move your Nature workshops. Deze reeks geef ik in samenwerking met mijn collega Lore Jonckheere. Over de auteur en gids: Usha Henning van Inside Nature neemt je graag mee de natuur in tijdens bosbaden, sessies natuurcoaching, loopbaanbegeleiding en/of dansworkshops (authentic movement). Ze is vooral actief in Gent, Merelbeke, Brakel, Geraardsbergen, Wetteren en Zottegem. Tijdens deze activiteiten word je uitgenodigd om je te verbinding met de natuur om je heen en je eigen innerlijke natuur en ritme. We maken immers deel uit van de natuur. De rest van de natuur spiegelt ons veel over onszelf en hoe we in het leven staan. In een bosbad nodigt Usha je uit om bewust en in stilte de natuur in te gaan en zo ervaar je het leven in het bos op een intense manier. Je zet al je zintuigen open en dompelt jezelf dus echt onder in de geuren en kleuren van het bos: een waar bosbad. Dit brengt je in het hier en nu en geeft je energie, ruimte, gezondheid en inspiratie. Tijdens het bosbaden , de coachings en workshops bundelt ze haar kennis en ervaring als bosbadgids en natuurcoach (opleidingen bij Shizendo en Innersteps) natuurgeneeskundig therapeut, lichaamsgericht therapeut, en psychisch/sociaal coach en counselor (Hogeschool Hippocrates NL) sjamanisme, familie- en systeemopstellingen en dansexpressie/Authentic movement. Usha werkt samen met o.a. CM, Markant en Steunpunt geestelijke gezondheidszorg Je kan haar volgen op facebook of via haar blog en nieuwsbrief . Neem gerust contact op: info@insidenature.be https://insidenature.be/contact.html of telefonisch via 0474936867.

Bossen beschermen door bewust houtgebruik: economie en ecologie verbinden Het kappen van bomen is een heikel thema.... Els Franssens, docente houttechnologie en onderzoeksmedewerker aan de HoGent heeft een groot hart voor de natuur en ze begrijpt dat de gemoederen nog al eens verhit kunnen geraken als het onderwerp aangesneden wordt. Wij vroegen haar of ze haar nuchtere kijk met onze bosbad-community wou delen en deze uitnodiging nam ze graag aan. Jullie reacties zijn zeker welkom op els.franssens@hogent.be . Heb je zelf ook een interessant artikel gelezen of geschreven? Bezorg het ons gerust via de contactpagina en misschien nemen we het ook op in onze site.

A new monthly circle with Wendy Wuyts (world forest ) using structures (storytelling, from deep ecology, relational ecotherapy) to connect with other souls who want to dig into the memories of the Belgian landscapes to learn more about themselves and the place. a new initiative from Robur on Den Eik Dutch version " Carrot-wise " started in February 2021 (but already full-booked) Starting in the end of March 2021 This English program puts more emphasis on themes like globalization, expulsion and migration. Register via this form . Introduction: Where did you take root? In the past, people were born wherever they would grow up. Being born then meant rooting. Between man 'and the earth that saw him come into the world', an almost corporeal bond had grown. There was not only a relationship between the individual and the community, but also a relationship on an even deeper level between the individual and the ancestral soil, the region from which one came. Now most people are not born at home. Now people do not live in the same place. And that is ok. Nevertheless, one often sees that people like to say where they live and where they come from. These are two of the first questions people ask a new acquaintance. Loneliness is not about being alone, but having the feeling of not belonging. One reason may be that you don't know where exactly your roots are. Maybe you belong to different places, like me, because you have lived in different places and have given to and taken from that place and the people there (knowledge, energy, money ...). A healing journey: rediscovering your roots For years, I have been working with two passions, or two 'medicines': storytelling and storydoing. After years of living in Thailand and Japan, I returned to Belgium at the end of February 2020. Because of the COVID-19 crisis, I stayed longer than I had expected in my 'heimat': the Kempen. I myself was on the verge of a nervous breakdown: the workload in Japan had worn me down. I then applied my two medicines to myself while re-rooting in Belgium. Last year, I wrote and shared mostly my own retellings of Flemish folk tales, European fairy tales and Japanese myths on my Instagram account or my blog Wood Wide Web Stories , often inspired by observations during forest baths and other nature experiences. Through these experiences, I deepened my journey and rediscovered Flemish nature: its beauty, but also its problems. I sought refuge in retellings of old stories, old enough to contain a certain wisdom. By working with those stories, even rewriting them and calibrating them to my own experiences and observations, I found grounding, solace and comfort and got to know my authentic self better. My quest is not yet about: such journeys are spiral-shaped. In this second year, I want to take others with me. I am going to organize monthly meetings, where we think about what a postheroic story or retelling can mean for our Belgian landscapes, where we can dream and share together. So, I am looking for like-minded souls in Belgium (or who rooted in Belgium before), who would like to meet online on a monthly basis and explore their creative energy and critical reflections through forest bathing, writing and / or drawing. In this experience, I combine my two medicines to dig out with you what we can learn from the old stories of our region / regions to stand firm in the present and the future, regardless of ecological, social and personal crises. This means that together - for each participant - we are going to find out which ancient region / regions we belong to today. When will it take place? March 2021, to February 2022 10 monthly online sessions of 2.5 hours Dates: Fourth Tuesday of the month, except July and December Time: 19.00-21.30 hrs. 1 online follow-up session in 2022 possibly a physical meeting with forest baths and creative work during a weekend or midweek in a beautiful location in Belgium, The (temporary) goal? A journey never ends and some effects of such connections and processes are sometimes only visible after a long time, but after ten months we want some 'tangible' gifts that we can share with others in the next dreamtime. I hope that every participant will have rewritten or 'redrawn' at least one Belgian folk tale - which touches him / her / x, perhaps because it comes from his or her region where he / she / x is rooting, or sees parallels with places he / she / x has rooted before, or because its essence touches him / her / x - into a postheroic story. I am also curious about other goals to weave into this project: if you are engaged in a quest or project around creativity, place, connection between traditional ecological knowledge and a more sustainable future for your community and / or yourself ... there is certainly room for that. What are we going to do? Each session consists of a welcome, an introduction and a short sentence (20 min.). In the second part, we look back on the past month. What did you experience? What is bothering you? What has made you happy? What have you learned about the nature around you? We pass on (the virtual) talking stick so that everyone can briefly share their story with the circle (30 min.). The third part is more technical. I do a short knowledge transfer, sharing some of the storytelling. Each session also has a theme. Provisional monthly themes are 'structure of a heroines journey', basic ecolinguistics, women in supporting roles (eg the belly goddess, the seer ...) .. Afterwards you also get the chance to ask questions or share comments (30 min.) . After a break (10 min.) We do an individual creative exercise (20 min.) And have a group reflection (20 min.). I call the last part 'wisdom of the circle'. In the first session I ask for example which local old story appeals to you and why (20 min.). At the end I give 'homework' for the next month: an invitation you can try outside and a short creative task. So this experience is more than just the monthly meetings. Dates and details of the content: Every fourth Tuesday evening of the month, 19.00-21.30 CEST (Brussels time) The details might change during the course, as a result of the feedback and inputs of the participants. March 23: The preparation of our 'dig' Introduction of this program and the virtual circle tools Getting to know the participants: Where do you come from? Short theory: The alchemy of old stories and nature experiences Creativity and connection exercise: The Hazel Reflection on a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (will be sent together with the zoom link) Which old story from 'your home / multiple homes' appeals to you and why? April 27: Staying, surviving ... (Japan, USA and Flanders) Welcoming back and reflection about the past month Short analysis: "The dog of Flanders" - a short anthropology about 'a good story end' according to American and Japanese culture Reflection on essay from a nature writer with roots in USA and Japan (will be sent before) Wisdom of the circle: Which words for nature (connection) do you know? Creativity and connection: The gingko tree, or the survivor tree Belgian nature in the spotlight: Lost practices and lost trees Wisdom of the circle: What did survive in Belgium? What got lost? May 25: Reclaiming the feminine energy (Greece, Mexico) Welcome back and reflection about the past month Short theory: the hero's journey and the heroines journey (Campbell and Murdoch) Reflection on Psyche and Eros, and especially on Aphrodite A woodwide story from Mexico Creativity and connection: the mulberry tree A Belgian forest in the spotlight: Silsombos, a 'feminine' landscape? Wisdom of the circle: Which heroine stories appeal to you? June 22: The Healing Question (United Kingdom) Welcome back and reflections about the past month Short theory: Post-heroic stories in times of social / ecological / individual crisis (Sharon Blackie) Reflection on the wounded fisher king and the wasteland Creativity and connection: when the beech tree departs A Belgian forest in the spotlight: Liereman, a wounded nature park with many traumas? Wisdom of the circle: Which old stories give you comfort? 'Dig' assignment for next two months August 24: Intuitive work (Russia) Welcoming back and reflecting upon the digging work of the past 2 months Dealing with drought and climate depression Short theory: the psychology in ancient stories (Clarissa Pinkola Estes) Reflection on Vasilisa the beautiful and Baba Yaga Creativity and connection: the birch tree A Belgian place: The Minnebron, the last drinkable source in Flanders Receiving and gratitude Wisdom of the circle: Which signals do you follow on your path? September 28: The Campine Dream (Belgium) Welcoming back and reflecting upon the digging work of the past month Short theory: othering and belonging Creativity and connection: (return of) the juniper tree Reflection on 'a pine tree in the campine' A Belgian forest: Visbeekvalley, a palimpsest Wisdom of the circle: Which local story would you like to calibrate to the new realities? October 26: Sacred Space (Bhutan and India) Welcoming back and reflecting upon the digging work Short theory: fragmentation history of Belgian's landscape A forest bath with Bhutanese serial rooters Reflection on an unnarrated short documentary: 11 Palms in Bangalore Poisonous plants and other boundaries Creativity and connection: Night shade A Belgian forest: Brabant woods, Belgium's next national park? Wisdom of the circle: What is a sacred space? 23 November: The language and stories we live by (Ghana and the Low Countries) Welcoming back and reflecting upon the digging work of the past month Short theory: An introduction to ecolinguistics A memory: interior versus exterior life Creativity and connection: Big Tree Digging the roots of a Belgian tradition: Where does Sinterklaas come from? Wisdom of the circle: Which stories does Belgium need? Assignment for next two months January 25: The Clearing from the West wind (From Ireland to Belgium) Welcoming back and reflecting upon the past months Reflection on the retelling of 'St Dimpha and the rowan tree Short theory: mental health and nature connection Creativity and connection: the rowan Wisdom of the circle: What do you have to let go? Assignment for next two months February 22: The home of a snail (New Zealand and Canada) How does the sky look like? Short theory: Orientation and the medicine walk Reflection on the Maori symbol 'koru' Reflection on the 'Medicine Walk' (Wagamese) Creativity and connection: Back to the Hazel tree Last sharing and reflections on creations of participants Wisdom of the circle: Where will you go? What's next? Included in the price: content and guidance via monthly zoom and email monthly: pdf with ideas, inspiration and invitations creative vibes, a new 'tribe' and other 'things' that are priceless Not included: physical meeting Cost: Price per session: € 12 If you register for all 10 sessions: € 90 The ticket price should not be a barrier (contact us via the contact form or explain shortly in the registration form why we should waive the costs. The money is for the charity of Robur op Den Eik vzw (eg volunteer reimbursements). Subscription: Please subscribe via this registration form. Participants send the money to the account of Robur op Den Eik vzw at least two days in advance to receive the zoom link. Communication: month + "rerooting" + e-mail address Robur op Den Eik vzw IBAN: BE82 5230 8087 7968 BIC: TRIOBEBB Battlefield 11 2550 Kontich Belgium We could create an invoice on request. What is Robur at Den Eik vzw? Robur op Den Eik ( www.roburopdeneik.org ), a charity recognized by the King Baudouin Foundation (www.goededoelen.be ), is a place of CONNECTION, through rest, nature, healing and creativity, specifically for people suffering from burnout and for the prevention of burnout. Nature plays a decisive role. The Robur hobbit-like silence house wants to be a healing presence in a small-scale, modest way (can be done under supervision!). As a meeting place where people can share together, Den Eik supports the web of connectedness. Robur also wants to be a place for artists: finally writing that book, finishing that CD, etc. Creativity is also a necessity of life that has to do with rest, nature and healing. In addition, there is a strong ecological aspect. Robur calls for awareness in the choices we make, including in the use of (drinking) water and electricity. Because we need less than we often think. Do you know people who don't want to be heroes in 2021 and want to dream and create with me in a virtual cave?

Hier vind je in de bosbaden kalender een handig overzicht waar en wanneer begeleide bosbaden doorgaan. Kalender 2025 Op deze pagina vind je de kalender van komende bosbaden. Je kan telkens op de datum klikken om meer details terug te vinden. Voor meer info en inschrijving zal je worden doorverwezen worden naar de website van de begeleidende bosbadgids. Noot: wij delen enkel info die de gidsen ons doorgeven. Gidsen staan zelf in voor organisatorische details van hun activiteit. Opleidingen tot bosbadgids Ben je eerder op zoek naar een bijscholing tot bosbadgids? Neem dan een kijkje op de pagina opleiding.

Oost-Vlaanderen Gidsen in Oost-Vlaanderen (Update 03 March 2023) Benten Martens is een Forest Mind Instructor & Mindful Shinrin Yoku Guide Regio: Hotondbos in Kluisbergen (Oost-Vlaanderen), Mer de Sable & Bois de Stambruges in Stambruges (Henegouwen) specialisatie: hoogsensitieve en overprikkelde personen contact: nature@bentenmartens.be www.bentenmartens.be Forest Mind: elke donderdag van 15 - 17u Shinrin Yoku: elke zondag van 9 - 12u Katriina Kilpi is een Finse gids (ForestMind) en duizendpoot die heel wat pionierswerk in België heeft verricht. Haar website is https://www.natureminded.be/. (Meer info volgt) Marian Ceuppens van Caminando Coaching is gecertificeerd natuurcoach en organiseert naast coachingsessies ook stiltewandelingen en bosbaden. Haar werkveld is Gent en de brede omgeving van Gent. Voor Bosbaden neemt ze jou mee naar de Makegemse bossen nabij Merelbeke en naar het Drongengoedbos in Aalter. Voor haar is verbinding met je eigen natuur, met het ongepolijste wilde zelf, de essentie van een vervuld leven. Verbinding en verbondenheid met de natuur is de sleutel hiertoe. Ze neemt je mee op weg naar vertragen, verstillen, voelen, ervaren. Zintuigen op scherp; openen voor de antwoorden en spiegels die de wilde natuur ons biedt. Je vindt meer info op haar website caminando coaching. Je kan haar ook volgen op FB en Instagram . Haar website is www.caminando-coaching.com . Emmy Schockaert is een creatieve bosbadgids/natuurcoach. Zij gidst vooral in bossen in de Vlaamse Ardennen. Ze is ook de bezielster van Barrevoets . De natuur is haar passie en groene draad in het leven. Met Barrevoets wil ze een schakel zijn in de verbinding tussen mens en natuur. Haar opleidingen van natuurgids, herborist, natuurcoach en bosbadgids (Shinrin Yoku/Metzamieli) bundelt ze in begeleide wandelingen. Hierbij staat niet het wandelen maar het vertragen, verstillen en prikkelen van de zintuigen centraal. Emmy gebruikt onze Keltische achtergrond graag als leidraad. De seizoenen en het ritme in de natuur zijn haar inspiratiebron. Ook werkt zij vaak samen met CM . Je kan haar volgen op facebook en instagram . Usha Henning van Inside Nature neemt je graag mee de natuur in tijdens bosbaden, sessies natuurcoaching, loopbaanbegeleiding en/of dansworkshops (authentic movement). Ze is vooral actief in Gent, Merelbeke, Brakel, Geraardsbergen, Wetteren en Aalst. Tijdens deze activiteiten word je uitgenodigd om je te verbinding met de natuur om je heen en je eigen innerlijke natuur en ritme. We maken immers deel uit van de natuur. De rest van de natuur spiegelt ons veel over onszelf en hoe we in het leven staan. In een bosbad nodigt Usha je uit om bewust en in stilte de natuur in te gaan en zo ervaar je het leven in het bos op een intense manier. Je zet al je zintuigen open en dompelt jezelf dus echt onder in de geuren en kleuren van het bos: een waar bosbad. Dit brengt je in het hier en nu en geeft je energie, ruimte, gezondheid en inspiratie. Tijdens het bosbaden , de coachings en workshops bundelt ze haar kennis en ervaring als bosbadgids en natuurcoach (opleidingen bij Shizendo en Innersteps) natuurgeneeskundig therapeut, lichaamsgericht therapeut, en psychisch/sociaal coach en counselor (Hogeschool Hippocrates NL) sjamanisme, familie- en systeemopstellingen en dansexpressie/Authentic movement. Usha werkt samen met o.a. CM, Steunpunt geestelijke gezondheidszorg, ANB en Natuurpunt. Je kan haar volgen op facebook of via haar blog en nieuwsbrief . Neem gerust contact op: https://insidenature.be/contact.html of telefonisch via 0474936867.