How does it feel to be outside?
Calmer, refreshed, inspired, with more perspective, wishing you could stay longer?
Nature Connection Experiences with Held Outside help you make the most of your time outside, truly connecting with nature.
This boosts your physical and mental health and can support you to deepen your relationship with nature.
Held Outside Nature Connection Experiences
These evidence-informed sessions include relational nature and forest therapy (also known as forest bathing or Shinrin Yoku), beginner naturalist journaling, wild tending, conservation education and simple rituals.
Held Outside operates primarily on Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi land, now known as the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. You can join a publicly scheduled Nature Connection Experience or book a private program tailored to you or your group.
G’day, I’m Jay. I’m a nature connection guide, educator and advocate.
You’ll regularly find me under a hat or a tree, on a bike or a grassy patch and looking for good conversation with other humans or our otherthanhuman kin.
I’ve been a science communicator since 2009 and a nature connection guide since 2020. I first came across the concept of human-nature relationship while trying to understand why modern humans can be so self- and Earth-destructive.
I read about forest bathing and later completed a certificate through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. I chose ANFT because their relational approach to nature therapy recognises not just the health benefits for individuals, but also the benefits to nature and human society from this practice.
Through Held Outside I bring my experience in facilitating groups, outreach engagement and my knowledge and ways of being to help you feel held, outside.
What happens on a nature connection walk?
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Feel held, outside.
© 2021 Held Outside
Buderim, Qld.
I acknowledge that this area of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) is the unceded lands of the Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi people and that a sentence on a website is not enough. I do my best to respect country and the elders and teachers past, present and emerging through how I live, speak and work.
May we all tread gently.
