Become a Wild Therapist
“In moving I seemed to find a way in which every part of me was able to see and feel… now a bird, now a twig, now an old woman, now water – a permeable, changing body…”
- Miranda Tufnell
This is not a training in the traditional sense. This is a returning. A descent into the tangled root systems of your own aliveness, in kinship with deer, stone, bramble, and dream.
Since 2012, this year-long journey—seeded by Nick Totton and carried forward by a web of facilitators —has grown like a mycelial network: each cohort emerging with its own texture, rhythm, and unexpected fruiting. There is no fixed map. We move with the weather of the world, with the griefs and gifts each person carries, with the land itself. Read on…
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Train as a wild therapist
The bones of the training are simple and sacred:
A series of closed-group residentials where we live in close relation with more-than-human kin—tree, buzzard, river, sky.
Each day begins with a social dreaming matrix, where we speak the language of our night and waking dreams, weaving individual symbols into a collective dreaming.
We find a sit spot—a place to return to, spending longer within the forest over time.
We work in pairs, in triads, and as a whole group, not just on but with the land—as co-therapists, as curious apprentices to its teachings.
This training is about composting what no longer serves,
so you can root back into the wild intelligence that never left you.
It is a re-membering.
A shift from a human-centred gaze to an earth-centred presence.
From “holding space” to being held.
Through this deep immersion, you will begin to attune to the wider dreaming of Earth—wisdom that pulses beyond the limits of individual understanding. You will begin to sense the world through your skin again.
You’ll explore how to be with others outdoors,
not as a technician,
but as a responsive node in a living web.
This work seeps into how you show up with clients—indoors, online, in cities or forests—because it changes the way you listen.
No essays. No evaluations. No performance.
Just presence, practice, and the deep listening that reweaves what’s been disconnected.