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Geoffrey McMullan. BEM, MSc
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- Geoffrey is a Wilderness/Nature Therapist Wilderness Living Skills Instructor.
I am delighted to invite you to Pathfinder the school of Natural Awareness and Tracking. The participants who attend my workshops gather together because they share a love of the wilderness and a desire to work with the psyche and spirit within a fun and collaborative atmosphere.
Natural Awareness courses will be of interest to outdoor practitioners, counsellors and psychotherapists, policy makers, trainers, researchers, students, wilderness guides, students, social workers, police and nature/adventure therapists and anybody with an interest in developing within the field of nature therapy and tracking.
Through these hands-on, experiential workshops, the courses will provide a forum for the exchange and development of ideas, fostering collaboration among the varied professional areas within the field of wilderness/nature therapy, using a variety of wilderness-living-skills, tracking and nature awareness games and exercises.
I encourage cooperation, inquiry and sharing. I ask that people leave marketing agendas at the door and come with a willingness to share knowledge and ideas with all participants for the greater good.
What other professionals had to say about Natural Awareness
According to (Ward, 2007; Mortensen, 2006; & Dorell, 2006) Natural Awareness has demonstrated its potential as a therapeutic-intervention for people with addictions.
(Dorell, 2006) a consultant psychiatrist stated that Nature-Awareness was, “able to create the bridge that we were unable to create… enabling them to respond to more traditional treatment methods”.
Another counsellor had the following to say. “It works on the spiritual side of the disease, which is hard to deliver to the patients… Nature Awareness workshops have been of great help to the treatment team it has helped us to explore areas that we would never have got by conventional therapies” (Mortensen, 2006).
While (Ward, 2007) an independent counsellor, referring to her client who had taken part in Nature-Awareness while in rehab, stated that it was an “Integral part of her recovery… which focused on the here and now”.
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- What are the benefits of Natural Awareness?
Natural-Awareness promotes behavioural, cognitive and affective change demonstrating an integrated approach which synergistically works with other therapies, such as Cognitive Behavioural Techniques (CBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), Gestalt (GE), 12-Steps (STEPS) which is used to deliver an end result GREATER than the use of a single therapy used in isolation, as an intervention Natural-Awareness can and does compliment main stream models.
Some of the beneifits are.
• It builds trust
• Promotes confidence and self-esteem
• Improves communication
• Promotes working as a team
• It strengthens relationship skills
• It’s in the here and now
• Connects people to a sense of wonder, helping to put life into perspective
• Encourages individuals to take responsibility for their own actions
• Develops and promotes independence and creativity
• It helps to develop problem solving and life skills
• Allows individuals to achieve things they never thought possible
• Reduces anxiety, helps to deal with anger
• Promotes respect for oneself, others and nature
I have posted my blog as my new web site is under construction.
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- Why not check out my blog as well: http://wild-tracking.blogspot.com/
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- http://www.pathfinder-uk.com/
Geoffrey McMullan. BEM, MSc's Blog
Pathfinder's Natural Awareness Blog
Posted on January 10, 2010 at 7:44pm —
Bushcraft for Counsellors and Professionals etc
Posted on December 12, 2009 at 10:00am —
Pathfinders Natural Awareness Blog
Posted on December 12, 2009 at 9:37am —
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Posted on December 12, 2009 at 9:20am —
Exploring how People with Addictions Experienced Nature-Awareness as a Therapeutic Intervention.
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Posted on June 17, 2009 at 5:06pm —
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I will post a summary of the day for you.
Thanks again.
Warm wishes
Geoffrey
I saw your event how interesting, my husband is very interested in the same awareness stuff, we would love to attend but we live in Montana USA.
We would very much like to see an out line of your event & videos if you make any.
Lu D
Good luck with it all.