SLIDESnature.pptCopy of Using the Outdoors for Counseling GOOGLE SITES VERSION.pptxUse your School Grounds for Counseling: Nature is a Great Healer!
Use your School Grounds for Counseling: Nature is a Great Healer!
Start by taking a walk your school grounds. Please consider these questions:
Start by taking a walk your school grounds. Please consider these questions:
- Is there any picnic tables, benches or other sitting spaces that we conducive for meeting?
- Is there a path you can walk?
- Are there trees that you can sit by?
- Is there a nice grassy area you could use?
- Is there a courtyard that could be used?
- Is there spaces that would allow for privacy but not on display?
- Are there gardens that you could utilize/access?
Resources
Resources
From ASCA Website: Wherever in the world you deliver your school counseling core curriculum lessons, nature will help your students learn. Natural elements have been credited with great power since ancient times. This Resource Series publication, by Barbara Flom, Ph.D., provides lesson plans for elementary school students focused on myriad character- and leadership-building topics all based on a nature theme. Updated in 2019 to align with the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success.
Read the article below about EcoWellness as found in the American School Counselor Association publication.
Read the article below about EcoWellness as found in the American School Counselor Association publication.
The article indicates seven EcoWellness Dimensions: Physical Access, Sensory Access, Connection, Protection, Preservation, Spirituality and Community Connectedness. Pick 4 of these dimensions and think about how you could apply them in working with your students in your school setting and school community.
Center for Nature Informed Therapy
Center for Nature Informed Therapy
Learn more about our partner, Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan, founder of the Center for Nature Informed Therapy.
Books:
The Outside Within, Dr. Heidi Scheiber-Pan Stories of nature's role in psychological well-being.
Taming the Anxious Mind by Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan - "deconstructs the complex treatment of anxiety and stress disorders into a use-friendly and action-oriented guidebook
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