The training is designed in a way that will gently guide you through all the steps and processes to integrate and deepen the learning in your head and in your body. Upon completion of this course you will be able to succesfully guide forest therapy walks within the framework of ANFT's guide certification training.
The tuition for the six month core guide training program is $2995 USD.
The tuition for the four-day immersion is $495. Wait to pay until you are ready to register for a specific immersion. You will have two years from the completion of your core guide training to do the immersion. This price does not include lodging, meals nor transportation.
Other costs include payment for Wilderness First Aid training, which is required for Certification, and is provided by third parties. Prices range from $100 to $300.
Tuition figures are current as of January 1, 2021 and are subject to change.
Ben Page is a Forest Therapy Guide, global advocate for the practice and the author of Healing Trees: A Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing. He is the founder of Shinrin Yoku LA and Integral Forest Bathing and has been guiding Forest Therapy walks since 2015. During his tenure as a trainer and mentor of guides, Ben has trained hundreds of guides around the world. From 2017-2020, he also served as the Director of Training for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, specializing in curriculum and pedagogical design and was the main designer of the ANFT Forest Therapy Guide Training on Thinkific. Since his practice began, Ben has been featured in such publications as Women’s Health, USA TODAY, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and WebMD. Ben is also a co-founder of The Open School, Southern California’s only free democratic school. He holds a B.A. in religious studies from Carleton College and an M.A. in human development and social change from Pacific Oaks College.
Kat is an ANFT certified Forest Therapy Guide, Trainer and an artist, based in the Netherlands. Her element is to help people re-connect with nature, with themselves and others, while focusing on the aspects of reciprocity, respect for all beings, heart intelligence, body wisdom and the state of flow. With her passion for nature-inspired art, and a background in cross-cultural communication, Kat enjoys guiding people and teams from all cultures with her company Way Back Home, and attempts expressing the relatedness of all beings through Shinrin-yoku Art and practicing Flow Arts. She is trained in Forest Therapy, Cross-Cultural Communication and is currently training to be Mind-Body & Eating Psychology Coach. She has nearly two decades of experience in teaching adult students, both on-on-one, in groups and online, holds a Masters degree in Linguistics and Translation Studies and is fluent in Dutch, English, Czech and a passive bilingual speaker of German.
Our Mission: Support planetary health by nurturing heart-centered relationships between all peoples and the More-Than-Human world of nature.
