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Wild Therapy 
One Year Practioner Training 2026-27 

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Starting September 2026 

 

This is not a training in the traditional sense. This is a returning.  A descent into the tangled root systems of your own aliveness.

 

Since 2011, this year-long journey – seeded by Nick Totton and carried forward by a web of facilitators – has grown like a mycelial network: each cohort emerging with its own texture, rhythm, and unexpected fruiting. There is no fixed map. We move with the weather of the world, with the griefs and gifts each person carries, with the land itself.

 

The bones of the training are simple and sacred: A series of closed-group residentials where we live in close relation with more-than-human kin—tree, buzzard, river, sky.

Each day begins with a social dreaming matrix, where we speak the language of our night and waking dreams, weaving individual symbols into a collective dreaming.

We find a sit spot—a place to return to, spending longer within the forest over time. 

We work in pairs, in triads, and as a whole group, not just on but with the land – as co-therapists, as curious apprentices to its teachings. 

 

This training is about composting what no longer serves,  so you can root back into the wild intelligence that never left you. It is a re-membering.  A shift from a human-centred gaze to an earth-centred presence. From “holding space” to being held.

 

Through this deep immersion, you will begin to attune to the wider dreaming of Earth –wisdom that pulses beyond the limits of individual understanding. You will begin to sense the world through your skin again. You’ll explore how to be with and hold space for others outdoors, not as a technician, but as a responsive node in a living web.

 

This work seeps into how you show up with clients—in therapy rooms, online, and

outdoors in cities or forests – because it changes the way you listen.

 

No essays. No evaluations. No performance. Just presence, practice, and the deep listening that reweaves what’s been disconnected.

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Wild Therapy Intro Weekends
1-3 May 2026 | 12-14 June 2026
Freshwinds, near Hastings 

Experience a taster of the One Year Practitioner Training. 

 

We will gather as a group around the fire, cook and eat together and live close

to the land. We share our night and waking dreams in a social dreaming

matrix. We will venture into the forest and out onto the land—alone, in two's

and three's and as a group.

 

You'll explore the art of holding space for clients outdoors rooted in an

awareness of our inseparability from the natural world. You can integrate

this into how you work, whether indoors, outdoors or online.

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Hastings & St Leonards
Eco-Therapy Group

Welcome to the Hastings and St Leonards Eco-Therapy Group!

We meet monthly to explore some of the local woodlands and natural landscapes in and around the area. We also work as a therapeutic group covering a variety of themes aimed at gently bringing us into a deeper connection with ourselves, others and the land.

 

All are welcome to join the group at any time, come and make friends and enjoy the delights of connection.

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Practicalities

Places are limited (except for clean up days), so please do contact me if you intend to join the group, and make sure  I have your contact details.​

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Wear suitable clothing and footwear, bring a plastic bag or something waterproof to sit on, water and snack unless otherwise directed.​

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Most groups start at 10.30am and are on a Sunday, and usually last approximately 3 hours. No dogs or children, and suggested contribution is usually £20 to be paid on the day, but pay what you can afford.

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