If your role involves caring for people, Forest Bathing skills could be invaluable to help you support them more effectively and meaningfully. This can be paid or voluntary work, or among friends and family.

The benefits of connecting with nature are so wide that applying these skills is only limited by our imagination. Examples include working in:

Education

Childcare/Youth work

Healthcare

Social work/Social care

Community work/family support

Peace work

Caregiving/Parenting

Counseling/Therapy

Forest School/Nature Connection

Mental healthcare

Creative Arts/Art therapy

End-of-life care

Occupational/horticultural therapy

Media work

If your role is land-based, or water-based, Forest Bathing skills are invaluable as they finely develop our powers of observation.

We will need to adapt rapidly to the climate changes ahead, and to do so we need the ability to read nature minutely and sensitively, and follow her lead towards regeneration.

Areas of work that could benefit from Forest Bathing skills are wide. Examples include:

Agriculture/Horticulture

Forestry

Fisheries

Ecology

Conservation

Water system management/restoration

Rewilding and land restoration

Regeneration research

Science communication

Town Planning

Architecture/ civil engineering

Sustainable tourism

No matter what our work, we are more effective when we feel calm relaxed and focussed - exactly the frame of mind that Forest Bathing helps us sink into.

Connecting with nature reduces our stress response and sense of hurry, while increasing our open free-thinking creativity and cooperation with others. Imagine if world leaders were to practise Forest Bathing before their meetings!

Whether we are in positions of power and influence, or we lead more typical lives, we all make decisions every day that affect the future of our planet.

I believe that in these times, self-care is a radical act of generosity that supports positive change for the future!

Forest Bathing brings us to the present moment and cushions us from the effects of society’s background anxiety, so we see the world afresh.

We naturally become more aware of our world’s incredible life-support systems - air, water, soil, and the intricate web of life.

From this relaxed and joyful place we can make day-to-day decisions from our own true values, and no matter how humble our life, the effects will ripple out into society.

Collectively, we have the power to bring about great change for the future, for the good of all beings.