2025 Arkansas Environmental & Outdoor Education Conference

Forest Bathing is an immersive experience designed to help deepen the connection to your surroundings through your senses. Participants will be given various “invitations”, or prompts, to help facilitate this connection. During invitations we wander independently, then we come back together as a group between invitations. We then end with a tea gathering. This practice is designed to foster deep ways of “knowing” the earth. Instead of naming plants and animals we’re more concerned with who they are. The benefits of the practice include lower blood pressure, easier emotion regulation, and reduced stress among many others. Forest Bathing helps to connect humans to the land and each other. We protect what we love.
Target audience: Classroom teachers, PreK-higher education, School administrators, Non-formal educators, Program directors