The first international Forest Therapy Days was held in Karjalohja, at Elontuli course center in the beginning of August this year. The seminar was a full day of sharing knowledge, life and work experiences, good practices and forest therapy methodologies. The presentations gave to us a possibility to travel the world and to discover howContinue reading “IFTDays Seminar 2018 Conclusions”
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How IFTDays 2018 came to be
We have been asked time and time again, what brought on IFTDays. Here is our story, written a while back already but got buried under all the other work. The idea for this event started brewing in the hearts and minds of two Finnish forest therapy practitioners. Heidi Korhonen, a project manager from the southwesternContinue reading “How IFTDays 2018 came to be”
1st International Forest Therapy Days 2018 (opening words by Katriina & Heidi)
Welcome, forest friends, to the first International Forest Therapy Days! We have named this event International Forest Therapy Days. But as it happens, the definition seems to still hang in the air. Who practices forest therapy? A human being to a human being in the forest environment? Who is the therapist anyway? Theift up ourContinue reading “1st International Forest Therapy Days 2018 (opening words by Katriina & Heidi)”