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The Ancient And The Boy

by Scott Poynton | Aug 14, 2022 | General

Secreted away in the High Jura Forest, in a tiny grove known to just a few, The Ancients wait. They wait for children. Not to eat them as dark, wrong telling stories from the past would suggest. How we justified destroying the ancient forests with our myths of the...

When The Forest Sent A Dog Song

by Scott Poynton | Aug 14, 2022 | General

In March 2021, I had the privilege of becoming a certified Forest Therapy guide. The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides offer six month training programs and I’d signed up the previous September (in 2020, amidst pandemic blues). Every two weeks...

The Power & Purpose of Meaning at Work

by David Motzenbecker | Jul 14, 2022 | General

‘Work’ is currently changing before our eyes. The COVID-19 pandemic has made many rethink their relationship to work. People are reshuffling their priorities, opening their eyes to what is important. Why did it take us so long to open our eyes to damage...

The Deep Rest of Winter

by Linda Lombardo | Nov 24, 2021 | General

Those of us who love the outdoors, seemingly enjoy everything it has to offer. In Spring and Summer, we can hardly wait to go outside and feel rebirth and renewal in every breath; see bulbs break ground and burst into flower; the trees leafing into their distinct...

What is Your Medicine?

by Linda Lombardo | Nov 13, 2021 | General

What is Your Medicine? To know what our unique gift in the world is or to understand how to use that gift in the world is a universal Human longing. It matters little if that world is just one person, a family, a community or the whole planet. When you don’t...

Forest Therapy: What is it & How Do You Find a Guide?

by FBF Contributor | Apr 13, 2021 | General, Research

In our industrialized, technological society, many people fear that while we intuitively have a connection with nature, that connection is becoming weak as we spend less and less time in the outdoor environment. According to the EPA we spend up to 93% of our waking...