Online Courses & Lectures
Echoes of Nature: Reflecting on Embodied Memories
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
December 17, 2025
06.30 pm – 08.30 pm (CET | MEZ Berlin)
Certificate of Completition
Costs: € 0,00
As practitioners of outdoor and nature-based therapeutic modalities, what we bring to the table truly matters. Our presence and facilitation are shaped not only by cognitive insights but also by the lived memories woven into our bodies. These embodied memories influence how we connect, respond, and create safety in the natural world.
Grounded in Sondra Fraleigh’s Ecosomatics and informed by decades of ecoliteracy and outdoor practice, this workshop offers a reflective space to explore the wisdom held in your body—the subtle echoes of your own experiences in nature.
Through a blend of short presentations and guided somatic prompts, you will be invited to:
🌱 Revisit formative nature experiences that have shaped your confidence and joy outdoors
🌿 Reflect on what may still need to be integrated or metabolized
🌾 Recognize how embodied memories may surface in your role as a guide, facilitator, or therapist
This 2-hour session blends theory, reflection, and gentle experiential practice—creating a safe and spacious container to deepen your self-awareness as a practitioner.
🪶 Optional Certificate: Participants who submit a brief reflection following the session will receive a Certificate of Completion.
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.
Contact: Sage.Borgmastars@abo.fi
If you would like to find out more about Adventure & Nature Therapy, you are welcome to visit our digital JOURNAL website.
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Participants and trainers
share their thoughts
“In my experiential and nature therapy work with children and young people in a youth welfare facility in the Netherlands, I experience every day how young people open up in nature – how they gain confidence, show their true nature and grow beyond themselves. It’s touching to see how much strength, creativity and vitality they have.”
“When people meet in nature – away from everyday roles, in the open air – there is often space for real togetherness. I am particularly touched by working with patchwork families and couples when they are allowed to rediscover themselves in nature. As a trainer at ATI, I love teaching in very different places – every forest, every landscape speaks its own language and weaves itself into the learning process.”
“As part of the 2025 graduating class, I never imagined I would grow beyond myself in this way and proudly graduate as a certified Clinical Adventure & Nature Therapist (Level 3).
Throughout this journey, nature has been more than a setting – it has been a mirror, a companion, and a powerful source of reflection and transformation.
I’m excited to see where this path leads me – into the world, into nature, and further into myself.”
We come from the field
We have been active in the field of Adventure & Nature Therapy for many years and have excellent international networks. Since 2010, we have successfully developed and offered Adventure & Nature Therapy continuing education and training courses in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Iceland, Greece, and Latin America.
Our long-standing involvement in the international networks of Adventure Therapy Europe (ATE) and the Adventure Therapy International Committee (ATIC) significantly shapes our work.
We are also regularly represented with lectures and workshops at international congresses such as the IATC, the GATE or the international specialist congress “erleben & lernen” (University of Augsburg).
More than 25 years outdoor and nature experiences as professional trainers
More than 20 years experiences in psychotherapy, coaching and supervision fields
Experts in creating and developing Adventure & Nature Therapy Programms
