FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
Micro-Dosing Nature in Urban Environments
- THEME 6
- TRACK 3
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 brief, repeatable nature exposures for urban therapy, coaching, and corporate clients using the small green and indoor features available in dense city settings.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Design a 2-tier urban micro-dose protocol with a default site and a guaranteed fallback, anchored to an existing client routine.
- Survey and rank micro-dose sites in your own working area by biodiversity, soundscape, and refuge, and not by size.
- Deliver a scripted attentional cue that reliably shifts a client into the soft, non-searching gaze the restorative response requires.
- Evaluate your protocol against an eight-criterion self-assessment rubric and revise it before facilitating with clients.
- Communicate the evidence base for short, frequent nature exposures to clients, referrers, and commissioners using the Evidence Summary Card.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Urban therapists: Add a brief, repeatable nature-based practice to your sessions for clients whose lives do not allow long outdoor exposures, using the indoor and street-level features already around them.
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Coaches: Equip individual and group clients with a daily attentional reset they can sustain inside dense urban routines, anchored to existing work moments.
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Corporate practitioners: Build evidence-grounded micro-dose interventions for office and hybrid teams using courtyards, window views, and short break windows, supported by a weekly tracking method that answers the “too short to matter” objection.
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Recommended prerequisite: A foundational grounding in nature-based facilitation.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- How the course works and how to use the materials
- Baseline self-assessment of your current practice
- Setting a professional intention for a named client group
- The practice log used across all modules
1Foundation
- The 5-minute urban micro-dose: a guided three-layer attention practice
- Structured reflection on what your body and attention did during the exposure
- Attention Restoration Theory and the micro-restorative effect
- The nature-dose evidence: weekly thresholds, frequency, and accumulation
2Deep Dive
- Why quality matters more than size in small urban spaces
- Biodiversity, soundscape, and refuge as site-selection criteria
- A field survey of the micro-dose sites accessible in your own working area
- The Professional Context Worksheet for your client group
3Application
- A fully annotated worked example with the reasoning behind every design choice
- Designing your own 2-tier protocol with a default site and a fallback
- Running your own protocol before facilitating it with clients
- An 8-criterion self-assessment rubric for your design
4Integration
- Micro-dosing as a sustainable model for urban practice
- Final reflection against your Module 0 baseline
- A 30-Day Action Plan with three dated client commitments
- The What I Learned competency record across four domains
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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 6: Urban and Indoor Nature Integration
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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Betty Fang
International Projects Director
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"Placeholder — short, outcome-specific quote from a practitioner who launched their practice after FBG certification."
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