FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
How to Design a Nature-Based Corporate Workshop for Creativity
- THEME 8
- TRACK 2
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Alexandra Brinzac
By the end of this course, you will be able to design and deliver a structured Nature Walk Brainstorming Workshop in 30-, 60-, or 90-minute variants for corporate teams working on a specific, sponsor-agreed business question.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Design a 60- or 90-minute Nature Walk Brainstorming Workshop for a specific corporate team and business question, using a 6-phase protocol that alternates between divergent and convergent cognitive modes.
- Calibrate phase durations and the divergent walk floor to the published evidence on directed-attention recovery and default mode network engagement, drawing on Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan, 1995), Berman et al. (2008), and Atchley et al. (2012).
- Adapt the workshop across populations (junior contributors through senior leadership; cross-functional teams), environments (full nature, urban park, indoor with biophilic elements), and group sizes from 4 to 24 using a three-dimensional adaptation framework.
- Shape the workshop question with the executive sponsor in writing before delivery, and communicate the protocol's evidence base to Learning & Development leads, executive sponsors, and procurement contacts using a calibrated client communication template.
- Assess your own session design against an 11-criterion self-assessment rubric before first delivery, and produce a clustered shortlist of a strategic reframe that the commissioning client receives within 24 hours of the workshop ending.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Corporate facilitators: gain a structured creative-thinking workshop format you can deliver to teams of 4 to 24 across 30-, 60-, or 90-minute variants, with an evidence-grounded protocol that produces a documented deliverable for the commissioning client.
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Learning & Development leads and HR business partners: add a calibrated nature-based workshop to your team-development portfolio, with the evidence base, sponsor-communication templates, and adaptation framework needed to commission and run it confidently across business units.
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Executive coaches and organizational consultants: deepen your repertoire with a session format that engineers a documented divergent-thinking shift in your client’s team on a defined business question, with sponsor handoff and convergence outputs already designed.
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Recommended prerequisite: existing competence in facilitating professional workshops (corporate, educational, or otherwise) and basic familiarity with nature-based practice. This course builds specialist design and delivery skills, not foundational facilitation.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- Course overview and how to use the materials.
- Baseline self-assessment of your current corporate practice.
- Intention-setting for the team and business outcome you are designing for.
- Practice log template, used across all modules.
1Foundation
- Run the protocol on yourself in a solo divergent walk (experience before reading).
- Attention Restoration Theory and the four components of a restorative environment.
- The default mode network and the timing of creative incubation.
- Knowledge check.
2Deep Dive
- Close reading of the Atchley, Strayer, and Atchley (2012) Backpacker Study.
- Mapping the 6 phases to a dual-process model of creative cognition.
- Dose, setting, and cognitive load: what the evidence specifies for each phase.
- Site sensory inventory and the Professional Context Worksheet.
- Knowledge check.
3Application
- Worked example: a 90-minute workshop for a 12-person product strategy team.
- Design Your Own template: 15 fields covering the full session.
- Integrative pilot and 11-criterion self-assessment rubric.
- Knowledge check.
4Integration
- Synthesis of the course as a coherent professional practice.
- Final reflection comparing your starting and ending positions.
- 30-Day Action Plan with three named commitments.
- What I Learned: an 11-item competency record for your CPD file.
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COURSE TOOLS
Professional Tools Package
Included in every course. These are not learning exercises — they are working documents you use with your clients, referrers, and colleagues. Available from Module 3.
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Activity Template
Complete facilitation script with timing, safety notes, and debrief questions. Three duration variants. -
Evidence Summary
Plain-language summary of findings and citations. For clients, HR, and referrers. -
Adaptation Framework
Checklist for adapting across client populations, environments (nature/urban/indoor), and group sizes. -
Client Communication Template
Ready-to-use briefing text for three professional contexts: clinical/health, educational, and tourism/outdoor.
Learning Pathway
Theme & Tracks
Where this course sits — and where it takes you next. This course is part of the following Theme and Professional Track(s).
Theme 8: Specific Workshop Design and Facilitation Formats
Curator
About the instructor
Alexandra Brinzac
Psychologist (Romania)
Alexandra Brînzac is a psychologist, FTHub Forest Bathing Guide and FThub Forest Therapy Practitioner who has been guiding nature-based experiences since 2021. Drawing on psychology and nature connection practices, she supports children, youth, and adults in cultivating wellbeing, resilience, and a deeper relationship with themselves, their communities, and nature.
Evidence Base
Grounded in peer-reviewed science
Why this matters for your practice
FTHub Academy courses are evidence-informed at every step. The evidence is not decorative — each module connects theory to field practice using the same scientific frameworks underpinning the FTHub Method.
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Alexandra Brinzac
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