How does becoming a Guide support my career?

Certified Forest Therapy Guide is a new job category. It has been rapidly gaining recognition, much like Certified Yoga Instructors. While most guides are not able to make a full livelihood exclusively from guiding, although a small but growing number are succeeding at doing so. We think this will become easier to accomplish in the near future, as the this rapidly-growing practice becomes more widely known.

 

There are many ways that guides are successfully incorporating Forest Therapy into their careers. The examples below are all from active guides, but our guides are always finding creative ways to incorporate Forest Therapy into all kinds of fields:

• Nature education and interpreting at parks, botanic gardens, arboretums, and nature preserves

• Leadership and service provider in Parks Prescription and similar programs

• Integrating forest therapy into counseling and social work

• Introducing forest therapy into holistic healing and wellness practices, at spas and in other settings

• Including forest therapy as a powerful force to support personal coaching

• Bringing forest therapy into employee wellness programs

• Incorporating forest therapy into executive retreats and organizational team building

• Extending classroom learning time into the outdoors

• Nature education, environmental studies, and advocacy

• Teaching forest therapy as a personal practice for self-development

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Internship opportunity may be paid depending on qualification and experience. If you become certified by ANFT, you may become part of our Nature and Forest Therapy guide network.