FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
Measuring Nature Connectedness: Validated Tools for Practitioners
- THEME 7
- TRACKS 1-3
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Beginner
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Sofia Availoti
By the end of this course, you will be able to select, administer, score, and interpret a validated nature connectedness instrument with your clients or participants, and report a defensible figure to referrers, commissioners, or sponsors.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Distinguish nature connectedness as a measurable psychological construct, separable from exposure to nature and from environmental knowledge.
- Select among validated instruments (the NR-6, the Connectedness to Nature Scale, the Inclusion of Nature in Self Measure, and the Nature Connectedness Index) based on your client group, your audience, and the timescale of change you intend to detect.
- Administer, score, and interpret a before-and-after measure with reliability and validity figures stated, and report a defensible group-level result.
- Design a complete measurement protocol in which the audience, instrument, timing, mode, scoring, and reporting form one consistent set of decisions.
- Adapt your protocol across populations, environments, and group sizes, and brief referrers, commissioners, or sponsors on the figures you report.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Forest Therapy and nature-based practitioners: add a defensible measurement layer to your sessions and report a cohort-level figure to the charities, referrers, or sponsors that fund your work.
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Healthcare and clinical practitioners: add a brief, validated outcome alongside your clinical assessments to evidence the contribution of nature-based provision within a care pathway, without making claims beyond what the measure supports.
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Corporate well-being practitioners and coaches: produce a cohort-level, benchmarkable figure suitable for board reports and budget renewal conversations with your sponsors.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- Course overview: the skill, the outcomes, and how the course is structured.
- How to use the course: sequence and measurement discipline.
- Self-assessment of your current measurement practice.
- Setting your professional intention.
- Practice log template, used across the whole course.
1Foundation
- Guided activity: measure your own nature connectedness with two validated scales.
- Reflection on the experience of being measured.
- What nature connectedness is: the construct and why it is measurable.
- From construct to instrument: how validated scales operationalize connection.
2Deep Dive
- Reliability and validity: what makes a measurement tool trustworthy.
- Trait, state, and change: what each instrument can and cannot detect.
- Case study: measuring change across an 8-week program.
- Extended practice: administering and scoring a before-and-after measure.
- Reflection and Professional Context Worksheet.
3Application
- Annotated worked example: a measurement protocol for a corporate well-being program.
- Design your own protocol.
- Integrative run-through.
- Reflection and self-assessment rubric.
4Integration
- Integration reading: measurement as professional evidence.
- Final reflection and 30-Day Action Plan.
- What I Learned competency checklist.
- Professional Tools Package: Activity Template, Evidence Summary Card, Adaptation Framework, Client Communication Template.
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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 7: Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Literacy
Curator
About the instructor
Sofia Availoti
International Projects Director (Greece )
Sofia holds an MSc in Environment and International Development from the University of Edinburgh and a Joint European MSc in Environmental Studies – Cities & Sustainability. Fluent in Greek, English, and Spanish, she brings over 12 years of international experience in One Health, nature-based solutions, urban health, and sustainability. As International Projects Director at the Forest Therapy Hub, she leads global initiatives promoting nature-based health practices and training. Sofia also serves as Lead Expert for the One Health 4 Cities Network (URBACT), lectures on urbanism and health, and is a certified Forest Bathing Guide, Forest Therapy Practitioner, and yoga teacher.
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
Sofia Availoti
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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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