HUMANS BELONG WITH NATURE
Taking time for nature, ourselves and each other is more important than ever!
Our MissionWe promote greater levels of public health, wellness and ecological awareness by making forest bathing widely available and accessible.
We strive to develop provide professional opportunities for forest therapy guides, practitioners and the communities they serve. Our core values are friendship, curiosity, inclusion, and professionalism. |
Our VisionWe'll know we are succeeding when beneficial and uplifting nature connection experiences are available for everyone, in the real-world conditions in which they live.
We'll know we are succeeding when forest bathing and related practices become mainstream aspects of how people live and care for themselves and for the land. We'll know we are succeeding when people everywhere remember how we are part of, and belong to, the natural world; and when we have aligned how we live so we are in harmony with nature. |
Our HistoryFOBI's first big project was the 1st Forest Bathing International Conference, Congress and Celebration in North America, which was attended by 250 people from 24 nations. The conference was generously sponsored by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT).
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We are honored and deeply appreciate our media partners and supporters!
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Partnerships
There are many organizations with missions and programs that align with ours. Partnerships are an essential part of how we operate. We seek partnerships with those who are working to restore nature, human relationships with nature, and relationships of wild things and places with humans. The piece we bring is access to a very powerful method of nature connection, known as forest therapy, that can have transformative effects on those who experience it. Organizations that steward or advocate for natural places know that their work depends upon building constituencies of people who deeply care for the land. The methods of forest therapy go beyond educating peoples' minds; hearts are educated as people directly experience and remember their kinship and place of belonging in nature.
We are listening to the field and watching as many organizations join the effort. We invite other leaders with similar ideas to join us in conversation. Let's find common ground and agree to direct our energies toward each organization's greatest strengths, and grow together like a forest, rich in diversity, providing habitat for many forms of forest activism and healing practices.
We invite conversation and friendship from all who care about forest therapy and who are committed to continuing the work of bringing it into the world in all the good ways we can imagine.
We are listening to the field and watching as many organizations join the effort. We invite other leaders with similar ideas to join us in conversation. Let's find common ground and agree to direct our energies toward each organization's greatest strengths, and grow together like a forest, rich in diversity, providing habitat for many forms of forest activism and healing practices.
We invite conversation and friendship from all who care about forest therapy and who are committed to continuing the work of bringing it into the world in all the good ways we can imagine.
