December 17, 2025

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06.30 pm (CET | MEZ Berlin)

two hours

Certificate of Competition

Echoes of Nature: Reflecting on Embodied Memories

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Your body remembers what your mind forgets. 🌿
In this 2-hour online journey with Sage Borgmästars (Finland), explore how embodied memories from nature shape your confidence, joy, and presence as a practitioner.
Inspired by Ecosomatics (Fraleigh, 2015) | 🪶 Certificate available

🌿 Trauma-informed and nature-based practice

🧠 Theoretical framework
This 2-hour online session introduces a trauma-informed, experience- and nature-based practice in line with the ENBI (Experience- & Nature-Based Interventions) framework. Designed as a location-independent format, it integrates guided attentional focus, embodied and perception-based practices, and structured reflective processes. The aim is to support self-regulation, stabilization, and meaning-oriented experience through a conscious relational engagement with both inner and outer natural phenomena.

🛡️ Trauma-informed principles
The session is grounded in core trauma-informed principles such as safety, choice, individual pacing ⏳, and consistent respect for personal boundaries. Change is not pursued or imposed; instead, the format offers a process-open space for sensing, noticing, and reflecting, allowing experience to unfold according to the participant’s own rhythm.

🌍 Nature as a relational experiential field
Within the ENBI understanding, nature is not applied as a technique or intervention in a narrow sense, but approached as a relational experiential field 🌱. This field can support presence, affect regulation, and experiences of connection and belonging. The session integrates bodily, emotional, and cognitive dimensions of experience, reflecting a biopsychosocial and experiential orientation.

🧩 Target group and contextualization
This format is particularly suited for professionals and interested participants seeking a mindful, low-threshold, and human-centered exploration of experience- and nature-based processes. It may be used as a stand-alone self-experience session or as a complementary element within ENBI-related training and continuing education programs.

Sage Borgmästars

Based in Finland since 2018, Sage Borgmästars, MEd. is a doctoral researcher currently exploring forest therapy, somatic modalities, and embodied writing techniques.

Certified in Washington State in 1998, with over a decade teaching within the International Baccalaurate in Belgium, she is an experienced English, history, and geography teacher.
Across the decades she has enjoyed taking learning outside across the Pacific Northwest, Brazil, Costa Rica and Europe. Recently, reenchanted by the way we tell our own stories, Sage has turned towards more informal outdoor education and integrating wellbeing and sustainability themes with the healing properties of the outdoors.

Sage.Borgmastars@abo.fi