FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
How to Design and Implement a Sit Spot Workshop
- THEME 8
- TRACK 5
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Beginner
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Meg Afauna
By the end of this course, you will be able to design and facilitate a multi-session sit spot workshop for your own clients or participants, sequenced to a maturing place baseline and delivered with brief, undirected noticing cues.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Design a multi-session sit spot workshop with a deliberate session arc and validate it against the FTHub Self-Assessment Rubric before delivery.
- Facilitate a structured sit spot workshop using a short verbal framing, at most one mid-sit cue, and a closing signal, holding silence as the working medium.
- Select and sequence noticing prompts that recruit contact, beauty, and meaning, matched to a maturing place baseline across the series.
- Adapt the workshop across populations, environments (full nature, urban, indoor), and group sizes using the FTHub Adaptation Framework.
- Communicate the evidence base for the practice to clients, referrers, and commissioners using the Evidence Summary Card.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Forest Therapy and Forest Bathing guides: extend your facilitation repertoire with a structured, repeatable workshop format you can run with your own groups.
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Health and well-being practitioners: add a low-intensity, evidence-informed session series for the clients, patients, or participants you already work with, alongside your existing care.
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Outdoor and wellness tourism guides: convert single outdoor experiences into a repeatable practice that your participants can continue independently after the session ends.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
0
Orientation - Course overview and how to use the materials.
- Baseline self-assessment of your current facilitation.
- Workshop intention-setting for your own context.
- Practice log template, used across all modules.
1Foundation
1
Foundation - Your first returning sit spot practice (guided practice).
- Reflection on the experience, written before the theory.
- Place attachment and the familiarity baseline.
- The five pathways to nature connection.
- Module knowledge check.
2Deep Dive
2
Deep Dive - The cumulative architecture of a workshop series.
- Facilitating attention without directing it; the function of silence.
- Structured three-phase sit spot practice (extended practice).
- Professional context worksheet for your participants and setting.
- Module knowledge check.
3Application
3
Application - Annotated worked example: a four-session sit spot workshop.
- Design your own multi-session workshop.
- Rehearsal of opening framing and closing signal.
- Self-assessment rubric for your design.
4Integration
4
Integration - Integration synthesis: the workshop as a practice of return.
- Final reflection compared with your Module 0 baseline.
- 30-Day Action Plan with named participants and dates.
- Competency checklist for your continuing professional development (CPD) record.
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Module 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
Track 5: Wellness Tourism Practitioner
Theme 8: Specific Workshop Design and Facilitation Formats
Curator
About the instructor
Meg Afauna
FTHub Forest Bathing Guide (Australia)
Meg is an FTHub Forest Bathing Guide and passionate advocate for nature connection in Australia. With a background in regenerative agriculture, herbal medicine, horticulture, and community development, she weaves together therapeutic horticulture, forest therapy, and ecological education to foster wellbeing, community resilience, and deeper relationships with nature. Through workshops, community initiatives, and nature-based experiences, she helps people reconnect with themselves, each other, and the more-than-human world.
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: Beginner
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Meg Afauna
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"Placeholder — short, outcome-specific quote from a practitioner who launched their practice after FBG certification."
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Betty Fang
International Projects Director
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"Placeholder — short, outcome-specific quote from a practitioner who launched their practice after FBG certification."
"Placeholder — short, outcome-specific quote from a practitioner who launched their practice after FBG certification."
Betty Fang
International Projects Director
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