Between ever-increasing screen time, the constant hum of digital notifications, and a cultural shift towards indoor complacency, today’s kids are growing up in a world that’s disconnected from the natural rhythms of curiosity, creativity, and imagination.
Instead of climbing trees, they’re scrolling feeds. Instead of inventing games, they’re watching others play behind a tablet. Instead of exploring the world around them, they’re stuck in a loop of passive consumption. The result… digital disruption.
Compounded by reduced attention spans, online bullying, social media pressures, and deepened isolation – lack of outdoors play is taking a measurable toll on kids. They are more anxious, more withdrawn, and more overwhelmed than ever.
As a therapist, your caseload is likely filled with children silently carrying stress and emotions they don’t know how to process - and nowhere for it to go - until now!
Join us for a nature-based exploration where unstructured play becomes more than a nostalgic return to “simpler times” — it becomes essential to child development.
Learn practical strategies for use in any setting to reawaken a child’s innate drive to imagine, move, create, and connect. Offering a rare pause — a chance to reset, regulate, and rediscover the joy of simply being a kid.
Secure your seat today, and discover how you can bring children back to nature, even in a classroom or clinic, giving them space to roam, play, and wonder!
Starting June 4th, 2026
1-day of LIVE appearances from leading nature-based therapy experts
3 on-demand BONUS sessions
Earn up to 7.25 live CE Hours, and up to 10.75 Self-Study CE Hours
Interactive Q&A and downloadable handouts for each live session, including 30-day access to all bonus sessions
Delivered at your convenience
Enjoy unlimited access and replays on all sessions at your convience
Earn up to 17.9 self-study CE hours
Downloadable handouts for each session
Learn on your own schedule, downloadable handouts for each, and earn CE as you go!
This expert-led nature-based training equips mental health professionals, rehab professionals, and educators with practical, evidence-informed strategies to help kids heal and thrive.
Through experiential methods, you’ll learn:
- Practical nature-based interventions for indoor, outdoor, and even virtual settings to address trauma, anxiety, dysregulation, and more
- Expressive arts with natural and symbolic materials
- Creative ways to use movement, sound, rhythm, and natural materials for bilateral stimulation
- Seasonal and cyclical elements to support regulation
- Rucking, sand, and pebbles as tools for balance, posture, and sensory modulation
- Nature-based sandtray therapy
- The use of stones, flowers, and more as therapeutic metaphors
- Digital detox strategies to restore emotional regulation and social engagement
- Guiding families toward practical shifts that protect sensory health and resilience
- Outdoor play activities to spark sensory and motor development, creativity, and independence
EARN UP TO 7.25 LIVE CE HOURS & 10.75 SELF STUDY HOURS Click here for Credit hours breakdown
All times are listed in central standard time (CST)
As we continue to decrease children’s time and space to move and play outdoors, we are seeing a simultaneous rise in the number of children that are presenting with sensory and motor deficits. At the same time, classroom teachers are observing more and more children having trouble with attention, falling out of their seats in school, increased clumsiness, and even aggressiveness with games like tag on the playground.
So, how can we reverse this alarming trend of sensory and motor issues in children? How can we ensure that children are fully engaging their body, mind, and all of their senses?
Using the same philosophy that lies at the heart of her popular TimberNook program—that nature is the ultimate sensory experience, and that psychological and physical health improves for children when they spend time outside on a regular basis—Angela Hanscom offers several strategies to help children thrive in outdoor environments using a therapeutic approach to nature play.
- Developmental changes that are taking place in children
- Why more and more children are presenting with sensory, motor, and social issues
- The decline in creativity and imaginative play abilities
- Sensory and motor development, creativity, and independence with outdoor play in all environmental settings
- The speed of digital information verses the speed of neurodevelopment
- Growing impact of technology on learning and behavior
- Unique challenges for children with learning, processing, and attention deficits
- Role of the senses in self-regulation, perception, and adaptive response patterns
- Sensory Imbalances: Overusing vision in a screen-based world
- Impact of weak links in sensory triads on learning and behavior
- Influence physiology to reduce disorganization and dysregulation
- Rebalance through controlled activation of multiple senses
- How sensational movement outdoors resets dopamine and attention systems
- Contrasting nature’s multisensory rhythm with the screen-based dopamine rollercoaster
- Use digital detox strategies to restore regulation and engagement
- Guide families toward practical shifts that protect sensory health and resilience
- Explore research-based benefits of nature for regulation and resilience
- Learn how natural elements reduce stress and foster connection
- Practical applications for indoor, outdoor, and even virtual settings
- Stones, clay, flowers, feathers, and more as therapeutic metaphors
- Adaptable tools for trauma-informed child and family sessions
- Creative pathways for addressing histories of stress and trauma
- Engage in “I Know My Yeses and Noes” and learn the 4-step process
- Case study video: Nature-based Sandtray in practice
- Sample consent forms for safe and ethical integration
- Support children and families in building inner resilience
- Enhance self-awareness and boundary recognition through nature metaphors
- Integrate simple, powerful strategies into everyday practice
- Discover how bioenergetics in nature activates the vagus nerve and restores balance
- Explore why bottom-up, body-based approaches foster nervous system regulation
- Understand how physical encounters with nature fuel resilience and well-being
- Rucking, sand, and pebbles as tools for balance, posture, and arousal regulation
- Movement and grounding practices that enhance executive functions
- Simple, accessible strategies for bringing the outdoors indoors
- Integrate body-based, nature-informed practices into therapy for children and families
- Apply interventions that strengthen mind-body connection while reducing stress
- Evaluate current research, benefits, and limitations of nature-based physical approaches
- Support emotional regulation through body-centered pathways
- Harness nature’s physical effects to unlock deeper layers of mental and emotional healing
- Expand your toolkit with creative, practical strategies rooted in research and practice
- Practical strategies for integrating nature indoors—no forest required
- Symbolic and sensory elements to reduce stress and boost resilience
- Adaptable techniques for office, school, hospital, or telehealth settings
- Trauma-informed design that honors ancestral wisdom
- Seasonal and cyclical elements to support regulation and rhythm
- Boost engagement with children, neurodivergent clients, and trauma survivors
- Guided imagery, sensory stations, and nature altars
- Incorporate soundscapes, textures, and rituals into therapy
- Expressive arts with natural and symbolic materials
- Nature-based rituals for co-regulation and resilience
- Address eco-anxiety, nature deprivation, and burnout
- Cultural and social justice considerations for equitable practice
Three Bonus Recording – Completely FREE!
- A nature-informed framework for applying all 8 phases of EMDR in practice
- Creative ways to use movement, sound, rhythm, and natural materials for
- bilateral stimulation
- How egocentric approaches can make EMDR more culturally responsive
- Step-by-step guide for transitioning your clients’ mindset from indoors to outdoors
- How to incorporate nature therapy, mindfulness and other treatment modalities while walking
- Checklists, risk assessments & resources to prepare for your outdoor practice
- Explore the power of practical & playful applications of the Polyvagal Theory
- Strengthen connection & dual awareness with nature play therapy
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Angela is a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook—an award-winning developmental and nature-based program that has gained international popularity. She is the author of Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children. Hanscom is also a frequent contributor to The Washington Post and in 2019 won the Small Business of the Year Award for the State of New Hampshire.
Aubrey is an occupational therapist, providing advanced clinical evaluation and intervention in the area of sensory integration and learning. She has certification in sensory integration theory and practice, and certification in the Tomatis Method and Tomatis-based auditory interventions. She possesses advanced knowledge in visual-vestibular integration treatment techniques, treatment of postural-ocular and functional visual skill deficits, and intervention to address sensory motor-perceptual factors contributing to dyslexia and dysgraphia.
Janet is founder of FirstPlay Therapy®. She is a Registered Play Therapy-Supervisor, TEDx Speaker and past chair of the Association for Play Therapy Ethics and Practice Committee. She is author and editor of the following books: Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Programs, Models and Practice, and Healing Child and Family Trauma through Expressive and Play Therapies: Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body & Mindfulness and Nature-based Play & Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Children, Teens and Families, and Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide.
Lorelei is the founder of Integrative Wellness Therapy. She is a registered and licensed occupational therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher has over 20 years of practice. Lorelei is a recognized international lecturer and author. Throughout her career, she has been driven by a passion to research, discover and create the most highly effective therapy techniques and tools to support lasting change with her broad range of clients’ needs.
Cheryl is a licensed clinical professional counselor and counselor-educator with 30 years of clinical and educational experience with individuals, families and children. She is a certified trauma professional and an abuse and domestic violence specialist with extensive clinical experience working with trauma survivors of all ages. Dr. Fisher was awarded the Governor’s Award for her clinical work in trauma. She is certified in Jungian Sandtray work and play therapy. Dr. Fisher’s writing projects include Homegrown Psychotherapy: Nature-Informed Counseling and the Dr. Sophia children’s book series that connect children to nature in healing ways
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