Ecotherapy for All

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  Spring Emergence with Ecotherapy for All
  Join Ecotherapy for All for a season of energizing your role within your ecosystem, wherever you are.
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  Ground in Community this Autumn
  Ecotherapy for All’s new Autumn Exploration series dives into connection with your own habitat to shape and deepen community bonds.
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  How can therapists play a role as community builders? Learn with nature-based therapist, yoga teacher, and writer Bailey Sims.
  Deliberate attention to not only individual healing, but to relationship as a conduit for it, is the foundation of Bailey Sims practice at Mind Body Nature Counseling. This collaborative approach is something all nature-based practitioners can learn from for the benefit of their own communities.
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  Summer Outside with Ecotherapy for All
  Find summertime slow down with the Ecotherapy for All Summer Outside series.
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  Add a resource to the Midwest Ecotherapy Resource Map!
  Have a resource to add to the Midwest Ecotherapy Map? Access the submission form here!
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  Intimately Urban: Activating Parks & Trails for Community Connection
  Do a quick search on the pros of urban greenspace, and you’ll find decades of research on the health benefits that parks can bring to city residents. But what if we take this a step further? Beyond building and maintaining a beautiful, safe, accessible greenspace, how do we turn these sites into hubs for community connection?
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  Mental Health, Mentorship, & Mud: Outdoor Camps Support Youth Development 
  Camp Mariposa Aaron’s Place provides a safe space for youth whose families are affected by substance use disorder. Camp and other mentorship programs provide mental health support in nature.
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  OuT in Nature: Occupational therapist Julie Buck shares how nature shapes her work with children
  Julie Buck’s business is play. She shares how nature-based activities have become part of her practice as an occupational therapist.
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  Starting With Your Own Habitat
  Connection and climate action at the local level (think your neighborhood block) support mental health and meaning through challenging times.
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  Affording the Outdoors – What are my options for getting outside?
  The problem: costly recreational gear preventing you from getting outside and trying something new. The solution? Sharing your love of the outdoors with others!
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  Public Spaces – The Perfect Tool for an Inclusive Practice
  This blog post is the third in a multi-part series about Indy Community Yoga’s use of public spaces to increase access, inclusion, and community-building through their practice. You can read the posts in any order: Part 1 explores affordability, and Part 2 covers meaningful partnerships. When Tony Wiederhold decided to start offering free yoga and… Read more: Public Spaces – The Perfect Tool for an Inclusive Practice
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  Community & Partnership Building – Expanding Your Impact
  This blog post is the second in a multi-part series about Indy Community Yoga’s use of public spaces to increase access, inclusion, and community-building through their practice. You can read the posts in any order: Part 1 covers affordability, and Part 3 explores the value of public spaces. Affordability and inclusion are baked into everything… Read more: Community & Partnership Building – Expanding Your Impact
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  Affordability & Accessibility – The Value of Public Spaces in Community Practice
  There’s a kind of magic that happens when people or movements come into alignment. That’s exactly what my interview with Tony Wiederhold on affordability and accessibility felt like.
• Balancing Rest & Action
  Ecotherapy requires rest and intentionality, and creating inclusive spaces requires action for equity. How can we as advocates balance the two?
• Energy in Advocacy
  We all have a role to play in mental health advocacy and climate activism. Your own strengths shape your role!

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