FTHub ACADEMY COURSE
Trauma-Sensitive Nature-Based Practice
- THEME 4
- TRACK 1-4
SELF-PACED · ONLINE
- 3–5 hours
- 5 modules
- 1 video
- Certificate of Completion
- 1-year access
- Level: Intermediate
- English
99 €
49 €
Curated by
Jennifer Salinas
By the end of this course, you will be able to design and facilitate trauma-sensitive nature-based sessions that support regulation and engagement for clients with trauma histories across clinical, educational, and outdoor settings.
Outcomes
What you'll gain
- Design a trauma-sensitive session for a specific client group using the Orienting Sequence and a defined 5-phase structure, with choice architecture built into every phase.
- Audit any natural environment for sensory, spatial, social, temporal, and somatic triggers, and plan a concrete response to each.
- Apply the FTHub Liquid Interactions Model and the SAMHSA Six Principles Of Trauma-Informed Care to your own facilitation context.
- Recognize the edges of the window of tolerance from body and breath, and respond with titration, pendulation, and a defined referral threshold within your professional scope.
- Communicate the scope and evidence base of trauma-sensitive nature work to clients, referrers, and colleagues using ready-to-use briefing templates.
Audience
Who is this course for?
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Therapists and counselors: extend your existing clinical work with a regulation-supportive outdoor practice you can offer alongside your sessions, with a defined scope and clear referral routes.
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Youth and social workers: deliver predictable, choice-based outdoor sessions for the young people and families you support, with structures that hold under unstable conditions and changing groups.
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Educators and school counselors: translate outdoor learning into trauma-sensitive sessions for your own students, with professional briefings for staff, parents, and carers.
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Intermediate level. No formal prerequisites required; designed for practitioners who already facilitate sessions with clients or participants.
Course Framework
Course structure
Experience first, then evidence, then application, then commitment. The module structure is the product.
0Orientation
- Course overview, structure, and the trauma-sensitive scope of practice.
- Self-assessment of your current baseline with trauma-affected participants.
- Setting your professional intention for a named client group and setting.
- Practice log template used across the rest of the course.
1Foundation
- The Orienting Sequence: a choice-based grounding practice you complete yourself.
- Structured reflection on your own first-hand experience.
- Neuroception and the polyvagal basis of safety in natural environments.
- The window of tolerance, titration, and pendulation in nature-based work.
- Knowledge check.
2Deep Dive
- Outdoor-specific triggers across five categories (sensory, spatial, social, temporal, somatic).
- The SAMHSA Six Principles Of Trauma-Informed Care applied to the outdoor session.
- Case study read through the FTHub Liquid Interactions Model.
- Extended titration and pendulation practice.
- Professional context worksheet for your own setting; knowledge check.
3Application
- An annotated worked example of a complete trauma-sensitive session, with reasoning at every phase.
- Design your own session for your named client group.
- Integrative rehearsal of your opening and choice architecture.
- Self-assessment rubric for your design; knowledge check.
4Integration
- Synthesis of trauma-sensitive practice as a coherent professional stance.
- Final reflection compared against your Module 0 baseline.
- 30-day action plan with named clients, dates, and tools.
- What I Learned competency record.
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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 4: Nature-Based Approaches for Specific Populations
Curator
About the instructor
Jennifer Salinas
Forest Bathing Guide (USA)
Jennifer Salinas is an educator, facilitator and certified Forest Bathing Guide passionate about helping people and communities reconnect — with nature, themselves and each other. Jennifer brings over 15 years of experience in early childhood education, leadership development and community-based facilitation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy, as well as a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Jennifer is especially inspired by the ways nature supports healing, resilience, reflection and belonging.
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
Jennifer Salinas
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International Projects Director
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