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FTHub ACADEMY COURSE

How to Integrate Expressive Arts in Outdoor Practices

SELF-PACED · ONLINE

99 €

49 €

Curated by

Inga Dreimane

By the end of this course, you will be able to design and facilitate a structured expressive arts session that uses intermodal decentering to support reflection and self-regulation for your clients in outdoor and indoor natural settings.

Outcomes

What you'll gain

Audience

Who is this course for?

Course Framework

Course structure

Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.

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Orientation
  • Orientation to the course and the experience-before-theory sequence.
  • Self-assessment of your current arts-based facilitation.
  • Intention-setting for your professional design target.
  • Practice Log template for use across all modules.
  • The Gathered-Materials Response, the core outdoor practice.
  • Structured reflection on your own experience of the practice.
  • Intermodal decentering, the working mechanism explained.
  • Low-skill, high-sensitivity: why the benefit does not depend on artistic skill.
  • The four expressive modalities outdoors: visual, movement, writing, and sound.
  • Nature as material and as container, with implications for site choice.
  • Extended two-modality practice and structured reflection.
  • Professional Context Worksheet for your client group and setting.
  • An annotated worked example of a 60-minute session, decision by decision.
  • Design Your Own session template, built against your context.
  • Integrative rehearsal of your own design.
  • Self-assessment rubric with safety and mechanism gate criteria.
  • Synthesis from single practice to facilitation repertoire.
  • Final reflection against your starting baseline.
  • 30-Day Action Plan with named clients and dates.
  • Competency checklist across perception, concepts, facilitation, and design.

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.

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 9: Nature-Based Creative and Expressive Practices
Track 1: Nature-based Clinical Practitioner

Theme 9: Nature-Based Creative and Expressive Practices

Curator

About the instructor

Inga Dreimane

Project Manager (Latvia)

Inga is an FTHub Certified Forest Therapy Practitioner and Trainer, as well as an active contributor to the Forest Therapy Institute Research Lab. Holding a master’s degree in Psychology, she has worked in the field since 2005 and is a member of the Latvian Association of Addiction Psychologists. Fluent in Latvian, English, and Russian, she supports individuals facing addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, and codependency. With extensive experience working with vulnerable youth and adults, she integrates evidence-based psychology with the restorative power of nature. Inga has also spent over a decade training professionals and developing educational programs focused on addiction prevention, violence, crisis intervention, and resilience building.

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

99 €

49 €

Curated by

Inga Dreimane

Access

How to access this course

Three entry points — choose the one that fits where you are right now.

Individual purchase

49 €

99 €

FTHub Academy Pro Monthly

60 €

/mo

Cancel anytime

FTHub Academy Pro Annual

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Ratings & Testimonials

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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."

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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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"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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