Nature and Movement as Therapeutic Resources

Welcome to my Udemy course! You can enroll for free and learn about my capstone experience. I will describe my time at Trailhead in Madison, WI to support my educational experiences in a doctoral occupational therapy program. Trailhead uses adventure and outdoor therapy strategies to support client goals. Home health visits also occur based on individual client needs. The goal is to use nature or other accessible tools to support mental health. My capstone allowed me to work on individual learning objectives, activities, and artifacts throughout a 14-week experience. I will teach you in my course how this project relates to professional development, research, ethics, professionalism, education, and more! You will be able to hear about the research I completed to justify and better understand this concept. I will outline the data from studies that evaluate nature and movement. Specifically, many of them demonstrate how people can improve mood, sleep, and overall wellbeing when engaging with nature and/or movement. I will share a nature guide in the “resources” section that contains 20 different nature-based intervention ideas that rely on occupational therapy’s unique lens. This can be used to target many skills, is appropriate across different ages, and can fit for various diagnoses.