“I want you to imagine that you have been in a lovely deep sleep for hours and that you are just waking up. As you open your eyes you notice the grandest, most beautiful oak tree that you have ever seen, standing against a gorgeous blue sky….”

This three-hour workshop will offer you skills for guiding nature-based visualisation mediations. These meditations offer us the chance to feel one with nature through our magical imaginations. They can also offer us opportunities to visualise deities, guides and animals who may offer us compassion and guidance.

Building a personal connection to nature is key in ecotherapy. Nature-based visualisations can guide our imaginations into lush forests, beautiful beaches or to memories of nature that have been important in our lives. These meditations plant positive mental seeds that can grow, nurturing our love of Earth and connecting us deeper with the ecosystem.

Human beings have amazing and mysterious imaginations. Whether you experience visualisation meditations as portals into other realms of existence, or simply as relaxation techniques, there is much positivity to be found in visualising the natural world.

This aims to be a beautiful and practical workshop exploring how to:

• start and end a nature meditation gently and with care
• use the right pacing
• explore the use of silence
• help your clients feel in control of their visions
• describe clear scenes whilst leaving important details to the clients
• help your clients feel safe and held

We will do several meditations together in the session, ensuring an enjoyable and relaxing workshop experience!

Although this event is part of the Ten Directions training course for ecotherapy practitioners, anybody can book and take part in this public online event. If you are interested, please do buy a ticket.

Please note that we will not be recording this online event. We cannot offer refunds to people who do not show up assuming that they will get a recording.

Stephen McCabe is an ecotherapy practitioner, storyteller, tarot reader and practising Zen Buddhist. All of these things influence his work with people and nature. His work includes tutoring for the Ten Directions training programme, facilitating ecotherapy groups in Scotland, and running an online ecotherapy programme based on myth, folklore and tarot. He also runs the Nature Therapy Online podcast. You can find him at www.naturetherapyonline.net