Coordinateur de l'Institut Irlande et Angleterre

Shirley Gleeson est une consultante Bien-être et Nature , ainsi que la fondatrice d'Ecowellness Consulting Limited, anciennement connue sous le nom de Nature, Health and Wellbeing Ireland. Elle vit à Dublin. Shirley est titulaire de deux masters, l’un dans le domaine de la Santé et l’autre dans le secteur social. Elle possède plus de vingt ans d'expérience en lien avec la santé et les soins sociaux dans les secteurs public et privé. Elle conçoit des interventions basées sur la nature pour améliorer la santé et le bien-être des gens. Elle anime également des formations, toujours centrées sur la nature, pour les professionnels de la santé mentale.

Elle a été la première guide européenne certifiée, en forêt thérapie , après avoir terminé sa formation aux États-Unis avec l'Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT) en 2014. Elle a été mentor et formatrice à l'ANFT et a encadré des guides du monde entier.
Shirley a une formation post-doctorale approfondie en écothérapie, en arts expressifs, en counseling, en gestion du stress, en thérapie comportementale dialectique, en thérapie familiale comportementale et en utilisation thérapeutique de la pleine conscience.

Elle a présenté sa recherche et sa pratique en forêt thérapie lors de conférences internationales en Irlande, en Grèce, en Suisse, au Royaume-Uni et en Autriche et s'est récemment adressée aux Nations Unies à Genève sur le thème des forêts et de la santé humaine. Shirley a suivi une formation de Guide Nature avec Eco Training en Afrique du Sud et a effectué un stage avec les parcs nationaux d'Afrique du Sud. Elle a un profond respect de la nature,et un attrait particulier pour les arbres.

Ann Tilman s'occupe dela santé, de la connexion nature, de l'art, de la manipulation du stress, de la pensée divergente, du coaching de performance et de la dynamique d'équipe. En tant que fondatrice de Foresterra, elle propose des expériences basées sur la nature en Belgique et en Italie. En reliant les gens, la nature et la culture, elle stimule l'écotourisme et l'apprentissage transformateur comme une source d'inspiration ultime pour des changements significatifs dans notre vie et dans le monde.

Ann possède plus de 20 ans d'expérience en RH en sciences de la vie et en arts. En tant que directrice des ressources humaines, elle s'est spécialisée dans le développement organisationnel, la création de valeur et le renforcement de la culture, ainsi que dans l'alignement des pratiques humaines sur les objectifs de croissance. Pour faire face au bien-être psychosocial, à l'équilibre travail-vie personnelle, au stress et à l'épuisement professionnel, elle prône la pleine conscience dans la nature, l'auto-leadership, l'enquête reconnaissante, la culture de rétroaction et les pauses de yoga. Son perfectionnement professionnel peut être caractérisé par une croyance dans le pragmatisme menant à une pratique intelligente. Elle est convaincue que les gens sont capables de plus qu'ils ne le pensent. Son principal défi dans la vie est de stimuler les gens à explorer et à utiliser leur plein potentiel.

Ann est titulaire d'un master en philologie romaine et en affaires internationales. Elle est une pratiquante passionnée de yoga et de qi gong et formée à la pleine conscience. Pour elle, la nature est un lieu de guérison et de croissance personnelle. Ann est une guide de Bain de forêt, certifiée par le Forest Therapy Institute (FTI). En 2018, elle a terminé sa formation auprès de l'Association des Guides et Programmes de Nature et de Forêt Thérapie. Elle est devenue le premier Guide certifié de Forêt Thérapie en Belgique. Elle conçoit des ateliers de sensibilisation, des programmes de soins personnels et de bien-être en entreprise pour les individus, les équipes et les organisations.

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Alex est le fondateur de l'Instituto de Baos de Bosque et de l'Instituto de Banhos de Floresta de Portugal et a collaboré en tant que consultant spécialiste dans le groupe d'experts sur la santé humaine et le  bien-être à la Conférence ministérielle sur la protection des forêts en Europe, tenue par l’organisation Forest Europe.

Alex est aussi l'auteur de "Feel the Forest : The Shinrin-Yoku Experience", Grijalbo, édité par Penguin     Groupe éditorial Random House.

Pour pallier au stress quotidien de la vie urbaine, il propose et développe des techniques de connexion naturelle afin que chacun.e puisse profiter des bienfaits sur la santé engendrés par les milieux naturels.

Il développe des programmes pour les entreprises et les organisations avec une volonté continue d'aider les entreprises à réduire le stress, à prévenir le syndrome de Burn-out, à améliorer le bien-être de leur collaborateurs/trices et à stimuler la créativité et le travail d'équipe. Alex s'attache à promouvoir cette pratique afin d’aider chacun à dépasser ses propres limites et à améliorer son bien-être.

Alex a mis sur pied le programme KIDS-Forest  pour les adolescents à risque d'exclusion sociale. Il a ainsi travaillé avec différentes institutions pour l'engagement des jeunes.

Basé entre Barcelone et Lisbonne, il a participé à des événements et des formations en Espagne, au Portugal, en Irlande, en France, au Royaume-Uni, en Slovénie, en Croatie, en Slovaquie, au Costa Rica, aux États-Unis et en Australie, entre autres.

Il est formé à la  gestion d'entreprise, sociologie, communication non verbale et leadership. Il est titulaire d'un E-MBA de l'EAE Business School de Barcelone. De plus, il a suivi une formation de Guide en Forêt Thérapie avec l'Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT).

Il a été le premier formateur européen de l'ANFT, a formé et mentoré des guides du monde entier.Il a été présenté et/ou interviewé dans différents pays par: TVE 1, RNE, TV 5, Antena 3, Condé Nast Traveler, Euronews,El Periodico, LaVanguardia, Huffpost, Barcelone, Betevé,   Diari Ara, El Mundo, El Diario Vasco, Burgos Conecta, Body and Mind Magazine,  TimeOut, Lectures, RTP, SIC Mulher, TVI, Public, Viscao, Pais, Samedi,A nossa  Prima, Calm Magazine,  Saber Viver Magazine et Q Magazine,  Burgos Journal, Norwegian Airlines Magazine parmi d’autres médias.

Jacques s'implique dans le domaine de la protection de la nature et du travail social depuis une vingtaine d'années. La nature a toujours joué un rôle important dans sa vie, retraçant des souvenirs de son enfance, quand il allait marcher et se nourrir dans les bois, avec l'un de ses grands-pères.

il a offert des promenades et des services liés à la nature au grand public, ainsi qu'à certaines institutions et associations.

Il travaille souvent avec des partenaires tels que des professeurs de yoga, Qi Qong et Mindfullness practionners, par exemple, pour avoir des journées thématiques basées sur la baignade en forêt avec une portée plus large en termes de contenu.

Son engagement a vu différentes étapes. La partie la plus importante a été en tant que fondateur et directeur d'un maraîchage bio en lien avec un réseau, connu en France, sous le nom de « Jardin de Cocagne ». Pendant près de 15 ans, il a géré et développé cette activité, qui visait à aider les personnes ayant des difficultés sociales et de santé à réintégrer le monde du travail.

Pendant ce temps, il a mis en place deux maraîchers sur deux endroits différents. Le premier, était consacré à la production de légumes et d'herbes biologiques, tandis que l'autre était uniquement de la culture de fleurs. En tant que tel, il a été l'un des deux premiers sites en France, connu sous le nom de « Fleurs de Cocagne », à produire des fleurs coupées biologiques, utilisées pour créer et vendre des bouquets originaux de fleurs, directement aux clients.

Auparavant, il a travaillé en tant que cadre marketing, en Angleterre, pour une start-up innovante, impliquée dans la conception, la production et la vente de satellites terrestres mobiles.

Jacques est titulaire d'une maîtrise en marketing et d'une maîtrise en gestion en entreprises sociales et solidaires (DESS). Il possède également une qualification CELTA par le biais du Cambridge English Teaching Framework.

Après avoir obtenu ses principaux diplômes, il a suivi une formation en permaculture et en sonothérapeute.

Il pratique le yoga et la méditation sur une base régulière, et occasionnaly certains Qi Qong.

Jacques est un guide certifié de baignade en forêt par l'Institut de thérapie forestière (FTI).

En 2016, à la suite de sa formation, en Irlande avec l'Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, il devient le premier guide certifié de thérapie forestière, en France.

Caitlin Keddie is the founder of Forest Therapy Scotland, and became Scotland’s first certified Nature & Forest Therapy Guide in 2017. Caitlin lives in Glasgow and offers Forest Bathing through public and private events around Scotland.

Having had a close relationship with the natural world throughout her childhood, Caitlin has been interested in natural health and wellbeing all her life. For the last 8 years, Caitlin has been working with Scotland’s oldest herbal establishment Napiers the Herbalists. She was director and manager of their busy multi-disciplinary health clinic and herbal apothecary in Glasgow, and now runs Napiers Bathgate, a community interest company (CIC) set up to make natural medicine and health education more accessible for local communities. Caitlin is passionate about holistic health and wellbeing, and is a strong advocate for spending time in nature for mental health, as well as physiological health.

Caitlin’s focus is on creating a safe, supportive and accessible space where people can enhance their wellbeing through mindful connection with nature, giving participants all the tools necessary to create a deep and long lasting relationship with the natural world and their local community. Caitlin also loves to share her wide knowledge of plants and their many health benefits on her guided walks.

Caitlin’s work has featured on BBC Landward, BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Out of Doors’ and  ‘Kaye Adams’ programmes, the Herald Scotland, the Scottish Sun, the Holistic Scotland Magazine, as well as various radio discussions on nature for mental health.

Caitlin is Certified Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy  Guide by the Forest Therapy Institute. Also  a Certified Forest Therapy Guide by the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides & Programs.

Claudio is responsible of the Instituto de Baños de Bosque in Chile.  Founder of Bosque para Ti, pioneer of Forest Bathing practice in South America

He is a Forest Bathing Advisor for the Department of Protected Areas of CONAF  in Chile, Ministry of Agriculture.

He facilitates and develops techniques of connection with nature to improve in employees health benefits through natural environments.

Claudio develops programmes for companies and organizations in stress management, employee well-being and stimulate creativity and teamwork.

With its operations center in Valdivia, where his projects are developed under the eaves of the Valdivian rainforest..

Certified Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy  Guide by the Forest Therapy Institute. Also he is a Forestry Consultant, Technician in Risk Prevention and Environment, Engineer in Risk Prevention, Master Student in Occupational Hygiene,(E) Diploma in Ecotourism.He has been mentioned and / or interviewed, Radio El Conquistador where he actively participates in the Gen Viajero program, interviews; Diario La Tercera, Diario La Segunda, and Publimetro.

Pedro M. Trindade has worked as an intern and collaborated in research in the Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermmanshof, in Weinheim, Germany.  

Back in Portugal, he decided to dedicate himself to one of his other passions – dance – teaching and leading several artistic and choreographic projects.

Passionate for personal growth and the development of health and wellness habits, he decided to create in 2018 his blog Peace of Plant, sharing content on how contact with nature, plants and the art of gardening can be a source of wellbeing in our lives.

Discovering Forest Bathing was something that allowed Pedro to reconcile his several interests, from the contact with public and personal development, to health and wellness habits promotion and environmental protection.

Pedro holds a MSc in Landscape Architecture by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Oporto. He is a Certified Forest Bathing Guide.

Paco is an amateur percussionist with musical training and passionate about writing, both disciplines are fundamental in his life. The practice of forest bathing is the basis on which he develops his projects for the creation of experiences in nature.

Galician by birth and heart, he has spent more than half of his life in Madrid, developing activities in the field of IT consulting, specialized in the field of Human Resources, and the development and implementation of agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum) , as a means for the optimization and humanization of business processes.

 He studied Technical Engineering of IT Systems in Madrid. In addition, he has a master's degree in creative writing (Hotel Kafka), and has completed different courses and retreats of Vipassana meditation. He is a Certified Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy Guide by the Forest Therapy Institute (FTI). He is also a Guide certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT).

Marta is a social community worker for more than ten years and focused her career in relationships with people, supporting them and encouraging their resilience and sense of belonging to their community.

She is now the social work representative in her city’s Health Board, diagnosing cases of non desired loneliness, helping with immigration procedures and also welcoming refugees and people seeking international protection.

Marta is a nurse and has a master degree in Tropical Medicine and International Health. She has worked in county and district programmes related to cooperation development. She has evaluated and led nutritional and health projects in the NGO Action Against Hunger in different countries, strengthening local public health systems integrating programs to their structures.

Marta studied emotional ecology, as the sustainable and creative management of emotions to improve the self, our relationships and the world we live in.

As a teacher, she has worked in Barcelona’s Nurse School, in NGOs and in local and regional institutions.
She is FTI’s Forest Bathing Guide and Forest Therapy Practitioner. She sees nature, art and music as connection ties for people and civilizations. She likes getting to know other cultures and surroundings, and also listening and observing how nature, people and life itself are all interconnected. 

Katarzyna Simonienko is a psychiatrist- a medical practitioner and a scientific researcher, PhD in psychiatry. She works in the Mental Helath Hospital in Choroszcz, in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Bialystok and in outpatient services in Bialystok, Poland . She is a Certified Forest Therapy Practitioner by FTI.

She works in field of different mental health diseases and stress prophylaxis as well. She is a founder of first medical forest bathing  centre in Poland:  Centrum Terapii Lasem/ Forest Therapy Centre PL . From 2018 she is a licensed guide of the Białowieża National Park. She is a member of the Japanese shinrin-yoku organisation INFOM (International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine). Currently she runs forest therapy workshops, leads shinrin-yoku walks in Poland, she also promotes medical knowledge in the field of forest therapy on scientific conferences, in medical journals and in media in Poland and abroad.

In private life she paints, photographs wildlife and run a Facebook fanpages ‘Zapuszczeni / Beforested’ about nature and ‘Galeria Silva’ about her art. She is interested in herbal medicine, old stories, different worlds, archetypes, fairy tales, legends, old European cultures (Celts, Slavs, Vikings), tribal cultures and related ethnopsychiatry.

‘The forest is a huge, wise book, from which we can learn many useful things. It is a work of original and unmanageable art. A living organism, a pharmacy, a palpable arrangement of bubble worlds and a friend. A bag of fairy tales, a source of archetypes, fears and comforts. The Context. That’s why I am here.’

Marco Nieri is a bio-researcher and an expert on habitat health. He began working as an expert in bio-ecological design of living and working environments, using the most vital knowledge of East and West, aware of the circular relationship between Man and Environment. 

Driven by the desire to deepen the knowledge of our habitat, for over fifteen years he has closely collaborated with Dr. Walter Kunnen of Antwerp (Belgium), who in 1960 founded "Archibo Biologica", an independent scientific research center on the Biosphere and the energetic influences exerted on living organisms by natural and artificial electromagnetism, a reference point for hundreds of doctors and naturopaths from all over Europe. This experience led him to special research to study plant bio-electromagnetism and its influence on the human organism. Thus he elaborated the "Bioenergetic Landscapes", an innovative technique with which he creates bioenergetic parks and gardens to benefit human beings.

He collaborates with Marco Mencagli to deepen the themes of Forest Medicine with multidisciplinary studies, and to apply this new research in the creation of scientifically based Forest Bathing paths in Italy and abroad.Together they wrote the book "The Secret Therapy of Trees", ed. Penguin Random House, 2019, also published in Italy and France. Marco also published the book: "Bioenergetic Landscape", ed. Sistemi Editoriali, Italy,  2009. Articles, interviews and reviews on his work and research are constantly published in the Italian and foreign press.

Marco is a Certified Forest Bathing Guide by the Forest Therapy Institute (FTI).

Kerry Walker is a passionate Forest School Practitioner and an Eco-Art Therapist.

She currently lives on the West Coast of Ireland, where she experiences the daily language and connection of nature landscape. She feels strongly that this connection with nature and each other is vital at this moment in time.

Her appreciation for nature and art has brought her on creative journey's around the world. She has facilitated creative arts programmes in Spain, India, Guatemala and Chile, with a focus using art and nature as a tool for integration, connection and awareness.

She is the co-founder of Down to Earth Forest School, a nature based educational programme where children are supported to learn and create through nature. She is also part of the facilitator team for the Forest School Leadership programme that takes place in Galway.

She feels fortunate to work in Brigit’s Garden, a Celtic Garden in Galway set within 11 acres of native woodland & wildflower meadows. It is here where she is a part of the Environmental Education team. She facilitates workshops on environmental and sustainability issues, and nature connection workshops for Primary and Secondary School children.

Kerry holds a Masters in Art Therapy and she is currently training in Eco-Psychology and Therapeutic Play Skills for Children. She is a Certified Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy Guide by the Forest Therapy Institute (FTI). Since completing the Certified Forest Therapy guide training with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, she has led monthly forest therapy walks in Brigit’s Garden and various woodlands around Galway.

She is a Certified Forest Bathing Guide by FTI.

Mila is also an experienced translator; she collaborates with the independent publishing house "Dvi Tylos/Two Silences" and this year together with a colleague she translated the book "Shinrin-Yoku: the Art and Science of Forest Bathing" by dr. Qing Li into Lithuanian language.

She guides walks in urban forests of Vilnius and other Lithuanian forests. Mila is one of the organizers of the annual Forest Festival which takes place in Anyksciai town; in 2019 during the festival she coordinated Forest Therapy day – a whole day dedicated to forest bathing and therapy.

Pietro Ostano is as a freelance professional working in the fields of Language Coaching, Forest Bathing and Group Dynamics.

Following his early childhood years in Africa, he moved to the Italian Alps and has always lived in rural areas; a true extension of his comfort zone, this environment helps him build nature-based learning experiences for kids and adults.

He works with schools, banks, incentive travel agencies, professionals and families and has recently been assigned two teaching positions at a vocational high school operating in challenging contexts.

During summertime he is usually involved in leading residential summer camps in the Alps, study-vacations abroad, hiking trips, or enjoying free time to explore new pathways, spending time outdoors.

Pietro has successfully organised and coordinated volunteer-based trail cleanups in the Cervo Valley as a way of promoting physical, psychological and social health, to encourage interaction, and reduce isolation.

His engineering background hasn’t stopped him exploring psychology, sociology and the human condition in general.

His Forest Bathing approach relies on his intense and variegated lifestyle and his experience with people, and is aimed at improving healthy relationships by healing and reinforcing self-esteem, empathy, hence reciprocity.

His goal is to coach individuals, groups and organisations into learning and using their interpersonal skills to create a healthier and happier society for us humans and the natural environment we all depend on.