FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
Inclusive Nature Practice: Disability, Neurodiversity, Access Barriers
- THEME 4
- TRACK 4
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Inga Dreimane
By the end of this course, you will be able to design and facilitate inclusive nature-based sessions in which physical, sensory, cognitive, communication, and economic access are built in from the start for groups with co-occurring access needs across clinical, educational, and outdoor practice settings.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Audit any environment you use for the access barriers a participant would meet across the four domains (physical, sensory, cognitive, communicational & economical), using the FTHub Access Audit Walk.
- Explain why a barrier is environmental rather than personal, drawing on the social model of disability, the biopsychosocial view, and FTHub's Liquid Interactions Model (FTHub, 2021).
- Design a complete, inclusive session bounded by the most restrictive access feature, applying Universal Design, multi-channel instruction (UDL), and sensory-load calibration.
- Adapt your session across populations, environments, and group sizes using the FTHub Adaptation Framework, with its absolute limits on when not to adapt.
- Communicate your access approach to participants, referrers, and commissioners using a needs-based briefing that invites disclosure without requiring a diagnosis.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Forest Therapy Practitioners and Forest Bathing Guides: Strengthen the access design of your existing group sessions so participants with disabilities and neurodiverse participants can complete the same session together, with no separate provision.
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Health, clinical, and social prescribing practitioners: Add a needs-based briefing, an access-bound route, and an evidence-anchored case for inclusion to your nature-based work with referred clients.
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Educators and youth practitioners: Apply Universal Design for Learning and sensory-load calibration to outdoor sessions for participants who require predictability, multiple channels of instruction, or built-in parallel options.
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No prerequisites required, beyond active professional practice in nature-based work or a closely related field.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- Course overview, learning outcomes, and how to use the materials
- Self-assessment of your current access practice
- Intention setting and a map of your professional context
- Practice log used throughout the course
1Foundation
- The Access Audit Walk: surveying a real working environment for access barriers
- Reflecting on what you observed, before reading the theory
- From impairment to barrier: the social model and the biopsychosocial view
- The 4-domain access taxonomy: physical, sensory, cognitive, and communicational & economical
2Deep Dive
- Universal Design and Universal Design for Learning
- Sensory processing differences and the outdoor sensory environment
- Case study: a co-designed multi-access woodland session
- Extended practice: one activity in three access variants
- Mapping your own professional context
3Application
- Worked example: a fully annotated inclusive woodland session
- Design your own inclusive session
- Run the design as a participant whose access profile is unlike yours
- Self-assessment against a 10-criterion access rubric
4Integration
- Synthesis: inclusion as a design default
- Final reflection and 30-day action plan
- What I Learned self-inventory across four competency domains
- Certification and recommended next courses
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10Module
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 4: Nature-Based Approaches for Specific Populations
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
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Inga Dreimane
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