PurposeOUR WHY
Cascadia Forest Therapy is a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation whose governance is based on a consensus decision-making model. We provide support and resources to connect professional nature and forest therapy guides with the land, their communities, and each other. Vertical Divider
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VisionOUR WHAT
To be a trusted source for ethically and professionally guided nature and forest therapy experiences within the Cascadia Region. Vertical Divider
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MissionOUR HOW
To grow the regional culture of nature connection by ensuring accessibility to guided forest and nature therapy experiences. |
How Might the Forest Do This?
This question guides our members as we work to realize the mission.
Our Members
Our members envision a mycelial network of humans on ancestral Coast Salish land that engage their communities in nature connection experiences, promote cultural repair, and model the re-storying of the relationships between humans and the earth. Membership is open to all.
Members support the organization by volunteering their skills and talents, participating in member gatherings, and lending their voices to decision-making. True to any relationship based in reciprocity, membership comes with responsibility as well as benefits.
Members support the organization by volunteering their skills and talents, participating in member gatherings, and lending their voices to decision-making. True to any relationship based in reciprocity, membership comes with responsibility as well as benefits.
We Value
- Our ancestral home in nature
- Each individual’s unique relationship/connection to the Earth
- Cultural repair through nature connection
- Scientific research as well as Indigenous and ancestral knowledge
- Ceremony, as individuals and in community, as a way to remember, honor, and strengthen our connection to the Earth
Guides
Our contracted certified nature and forest therapy guides adhere to the same standards of
practice and uphold our organization’s values.
practice and uphold our organization’s values.
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Debbie Harrison
Sequim, She/Her |
Lynne Aebi
Woodinville, She/Her |
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