Counselling with nature (CWN) is an approach based on the law of nature by which everything seeks to survive, to grow, and to be interconnected. CWN incorporates outdoor sensory activities, allowing individuals to use their 53 natural senses (stifled by our predominantly indoor lives) to reconnect to the natural environment. (KS)

The integrated ecology program at World Peace University (Washington) uses a therapeutic approach to environmental awareness that enables participants to connect with nature and fill the sensory voids that encourage apathy, dysfunction, and dependencies. Suggests personal difficulties result from the difference between how nature works and the way…