FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
The Five Pathways to Nature Connectedness: A Practitioner’s Toolkit
- THEME 1
- 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
Betty Fang
By the end of this course, you will be able to design and facilitate nature-connection sessions that engage the five evidence-based pathways and produce a measurable increase in your clients’ sense of connection to nature, in full nature, urban, or indoor settings.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Distinguish nature connectedness from contact, and design activities that build the construct measured by validated instruments such as the Connectedness to Nature Scale and the Nature Relatedness Scale.
- Recruit each of the Five Pathways (Contact, Emotion, Meaning, Beauty, Compassion) through specific attentional prompts, weighting Emotion and Beauty appropriately for the strongest evidence-based effect.
- Build a durable noticing habit in your clients through a portable daily transfer task, supported by the 30 Days Wild and the Three Good Things in Nature evidence on sustained connectedness gains.
- Produce a complete pathways-based session in 30-, 60-, or 90-minute formats for your own client group, with safety notes and a structured debrief, using the FTHub Activity Template.
- Communicate your session's purpose and evidence base to referrers, commissioners, and colleagues using the FTHub Evidence Summary Card and Client Communication Templates.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Nature-connection guides and facilitators: Forest Bathing guides, nature connection facilitators, and well-being practitioners gain a structured design framework that converts time outdoors into measurable connectedness gains with their own groups.
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Health and social-prescribing practitioners: Primary care physicians, nurses, social prescribing link workers, and primary-care well-being coordinators add an evidence-based nature-connection offer with outcomes they can report back to referrers and commissioners.
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Outdoor educators and coaches: Outdoor educators, wellness coaches, and retreat leaders convert exposure-based activities into pathway-based sessions that produce a lasting sense of connection in their clients.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- Course overview and how to use it
- Self-assessment baseline of your current connectedness practice
- Setting your professional intention (client group, environments, outcome)
- Practice log template used across the course
1Foundation
- Three-Pathway Engagement Walk (Contact, Emotion, Beauty)
- Reflection on the practice
- Nature connectedness as a measurable construct
- The Five Pathways model (Lumber, Richardson, Sheffield, 2017)
- Self-assessment of foundational knowledge
2Deep Dive
- Pathway weighting: why Emotion and Beauty carry the most weight
- Durability and the noticing-habit mechanism
- Case study in a social-prescribing setting
- Meaning-and-Compassion extended practice
- Professional Context Worksheet for your own group
- Self-assessment of readiness to design
3Application
- Annotated 60-minute worked example
- Design Your Own Pathways session
- Integrative full-session run-through
- Reflection on your design
- Seven-criterion self-assessment rubric
4Integration
- Integration reading: designing across the five pathways
- Final reflection compared with your Module 0 baseline
- 30-day Action Plan with named clients and dates
- What I Learned competency checklist
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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 1: Sensory Awareness and Nature Connection Facilitation
Curator
About the instructor
Betty Fang
Capacity Building & Content Manager (Singapore/China)
Betty Fang, an FTHub-certified Forest Bathing Guide based in Singapore, has a deep love for nature and a profound understanding of the therapeutic benefits it offers. Betty has worked with local mental health institutes to bring Forest Bathing to their patients, as well as working with local branches of global charities to further her dreams in this space.
Fluent in both English and Mandarin, Betty is well-equipped to bridge cultural and linguistic gaps, making the practice of Forest Bathing accessible to a diverse audience. Passionate about bringing Forest Bathing to China and wider Asia, her vision is to foster the well-being and mindfulness of those navigating the challenges of modern life.
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
Betty Fang
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"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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