For anyone inspired to transform trauma as part of our evolving planet, join the journey . . .
Together in Nature
Training Overview
What We'll Explore
This ‘Together in, with and of Nature’ Journey offers a deeply nurturing, experiential development opportunity.
It is for anyone inspired by the transformation of trauma and humanity as part of an evolving planet.
The training will help those who are:
supporting trauma-informed recovery and learning in children, young people and adults;
interested in their own personal development;
curious in how ‘the more than human world’ is an essential part of healthy human development.
You will come away with:
an upgraded approach to story-making through a fluid, somatic sense of Self that is part of the Whole,
an expanded team of allies in the human and natural world,
an outdoor facilitation kit, manual and digital resources for using this approach with others and embedding it in your own life.
We'll journey together through:
Space-Holding
Needs, Behaviours & the Sacred
What is space-holding & when do we need it?
What happens if we don't have it (growing up/older)?
What skills do we need as space-holders?
What archetypes, life stages & transitions call you most as a space-holder?
What is Sacred?How do we experience it?
How can we nurture and direct attention when space-holding?
Story-Making
Story, pattern and character
What are these fundamentals of human perception?
How are they enshrined (or not!) in our home – the natural world.
How does story help (or hinder) our navigation through life?
How do our stories get stuck, small & separated by trauma?
How do we identify Self & Other?
Subtle Worlds
Senses, Somatics & Attunement
How do we get to know our traumatized body?
Do we know our bodies as instruments of connection & knowing?
How do we experience ourselves & each other?
Can we do this more deeply?
Can we experience ourselves IN each other and in nature?
What kinds of support and wisdom emerge as we expand and re-connect our worlds?
Coherence
Evolving, Integrating & Wholeness
How we are supported and mirrored in the natural world?
Can we re-define our sense of Self & other, within a more conscious somatic & relational field?
What kinds of evolving, fluid stories, metaphors & archetypes can emerge from and for us?
How can we co-create stories together for new generations and evolving planet?
Experienced guides map and co-create our trainings.
Meet The Together in Nature Team
Jon Cree
Ecological Educator, Mentor, Storyteller & Song-holder
Jon has been revelling in ecological literacy and nature connectedness for as long as he remembers. He is passionate about therapeutic story-making, telling and listening. He's worked with children, young people and adults. Co-Author of The Essential Guide to Nature Pedagogy, he's also deeply woven into the field of trauma healing and wellbeing through nature. He's one of the most loved and respected nature practitioners in the UK.
Emma B
Educator, Creator, Yoga Therapist & Trauma Specialist
Trained extensively in traditional Yoga schools, contemporary approaches to trauma and indigenous practices, Emma now playfully weaves together Yoga, somatic inquiry, story-making, sound, attachment and ancestral trauma healing, nature connection & local plant medicine for health, healing, growth & connection. She co-founded the GrowFree Community to nurture new ways of living, healing and being together.
Together in Nature is led by Emma B and Jon Cree and supported by our creative community.
Nathalie Gaglione
Somatic Intimacy & Men's Sacred Sexuality Coach
Nathalie specialises in providing personalised coaching for intimacy, love and relationship; bringing peace, freedom, purpose, conscious relationship and supporting you to falling in love with yourself and life.
For Nathalie, Together in Nature "was sensational with wonderful space holding and wisdom. An incredibly rich experience."
Heidi Neal
Body-Oriented Coach, Therapeutic Mentor, Nature Practitioner
Heidi brings trauma sensitive somatic coaching, therapeutic mentoring, and nature connection to support individuals and communities in coming back to wholeness.
Heidi says "This training was really beautiful, a journey, a gift. Insightful, I received wisdom. Training and personal development intertwined."
Melanie Kidd
Creative Workshop Leader, Curator & Outreach Practitioner
Trained in theatrical arts, Mel focuses on creativity, confidence-building, and collective learning. She combines the arts and therapeutic training to hold supportive spaces that empower individuals and communities.
Mel said "This training gave me more confidence in my creative facilitation powers by drawing on nature. I felt witnessed by the land and more integrated with myself and in community."
Georgia Brooker
Permaculture Educator, Mother Nature Circle Facilitator & Poet
With a rich background in education and learning, Georgia weaves strands from life-roles spanning motherhood, permaculture teaching and design, community gardening, tai chi practice, and Humanist Celebrant experience.
Georgia has "noticed a more trusting and sincere sense of connection with people as a result of being seen and somatically safe with the other participants in such a profound way."
Sahajo Stewart
GrowFree Trauma-informed Nature-based Community Facilitator
A member since the start, Sahajo is part of the fabric at GrowFree. She has co-facilitated the Fight, Flight, Freeze & Me Course and completed our full 2024 training package. Combining an educational background, experience in GrowFree and other peer support settings, indigenous practice, motherhood and love of nature, Sahajo creates and holds space intuitively for others healing from trauma.
Kathryn Gronkowski
GrowFree Trauma-informed Nature-based Community Facilitator
Kathryn is another long-standing member of GrowFree, arriving with birth trauma and, like most of us, discovering her own early childhood attachment issues along the way. She completed our 2024 training package, and brings experience from nursing, breastfeeding peer support and her love of music and spoken word to curate creative therapeutic outings and spaces for GrowFree members.
Lisa Avery
GrowFree Trauma-informed Nature-based Community Facilitator
Lisa has embraced the courses, support and community in GrowFree, thriving into new levels of belonging, freedom and confidence. She now takes this into the ballroom and spreads trauma-informed love in her dance community. She organises outdoor hiking and swimming outings for our members and is supporting GrowFree's land-based projects through her background in environmental research.
Ali McLean
GrowFree Trauma-informed Nature-based Community Facilitator
Having found her voice after a childhood where she couldn’t, it's become a key part of what Ali brings to any space. Coming from the music industry, she now runs singing circles, teaches Kundalini Yoga and has completed our 2024 training. Along with her love of nature-based heart-led song and vocal work, horses guide her journey. She brings all of this to GrowFree.
The GrowFree Model & Community Facilitators
At GrowFree we're always looking to keep our offerings accessible and sustainable.
Our mission is for our trauma-informed resources, courses and peer support to be available to those who need it.
All of our courses and trainings can be taken on their or as part of a fuller package. Together in Nature combines with our Fight, Flight, Freeze & Me and Trauma-informed Peer2Peer courses to form our Nature-based, Trauma-informed Peer & Practitioner Training Package.
Our newly trained community facilitators who completed the training package in 2024 will be supporting the Together in Nature training as apprentices making sure all the materials are ready, participants have any support they need and the meals are delicious. This allows them to go through the journey again at a subsidized rate and with a view to being part of future facilitation teams. This could be you in 2026!
What Have People Said?
Feedback from Together in Nature 2024
It was a truly inspiring, deepening, connecting, attuning and hugely humbling experience. I don’t think I can even put into words just how magical and transformative it was.
Ali McClean
from This Spirit Sings
Incredibly healing, safe, inspiring & warming. I arrived a weary, haggard, battered traveller and left a warrior of peace.
Ethan M P
Forestry Practitioner
What chimed most for me was the session in the woods, moving with the trees and the synchronized walk with another. I came away as someone who feels more in tune with my nervous system and doesn’t have to feel ashamed for sitting listening.
Allanah F
Media Creator & GrowFree Community Peer
I felt gently guided to a very moving deep space – to get unstuck - held by both Jon and Emma and the community. It was deeply trust-building. The mirroring and creative toolkit were most useful and impactful for me.
Bela S
Mother, Midwife, Pregnancy Yoga Teacher, Home Educator & GrowFree Community Peer
Join Us in 2025.
You Can Book Your Place Now.
Together in Nature will be held on two occasions in 2025.
Join us March 24th-28th near Malvern in Worcestershire, England
or May 6th-10th near Kemnay in central Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Spaces are limited on both journeys.
The Worcestershire price includes bed, breakfast and dinner at the training venue.
The Aberdeenshire price is non-residential with no meals. An evening meal for 4 days can be added for £32. A camping option with breakfast and dinner can be added for £75.
If you are a third sector organisation or private party looking to book more than 2 places we may be able to offer a group discount. Please contact [email protected] for Worcestershire group bookings and [email protected] for Aberdeenshire group bookings.
Together in Nature 2025 Worcestershire
5-Day Trauma-Informed, Nature-Based Training Journey for Peers & Practitioners with Jon Cree, Emma B & Team. Residential -bed, breakfast & dinner included.
605.00 GBP
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Together in Nature 2025 Worcestershire 3 Part Payment
5-Day Trauma-Informed, Nature-Based Training Journey for Peers & Practitioners with Jon Cree, Emma B & Team. Residential -bed, breakfast & dinner included. This is the first of 3x£215 payments.
215.00 GBP
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Together in Nature Aberdeenshire May 2025
5-Day Trauma-Informed, Nature-Based Training Journey for Peers & Practitioners with Jon Cree, Emma B & Team.
475.00 GBP
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Together in Nature Aberdeenshire 2025 3-Part Payment
5-Day Trauma-Informed, Nature-Based Training Journey for Peers & Practitioners with Jon Cree, Emma B & Team. This is the first of 3 £170 payments.
170.00 GBP
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Once our costs are covered, we do our best to provide a limited number of supported places on or courses and trainings. If you would benefit from this, please contact [email protected]
Find Out More About Together in Nature & GrowFree at One of Our Upcoming Events
You can find out more about Together in Nature or get involved in GrowFree through our other events.
Thurs December 5th / 7.30 PM
GrowFree Curiosity Call for 2025
Find out what's going on in GrowFree in 2025 and how you could be involved in this Zoom Call with Emma B.
Sunday 22nd December / 12 - 4PM
Cultivator's Collective Solstice Event at The Vinery, Banff, Aberdeenshire
Gather in community at this event curated by Georgia Brooker to mark a moment of pause and seasonal threshold. Find out more about GrowFree, Forest Gardening in Winter, enjoy ethical seasonal stalls and open mic. Book a space with Emma B for An Introduction to Yoga Nidra & Plant Consciousness at 12.30pm.
Venue: The Vinery, Duff House Gardens, Airlie Gardens, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AZ
January 7th - February 7th 2025 / Various
Rest to Rise Retreat (Online)
Experience stillness, peace & deep rest this winter by joining us in the Rest to Rise Retreat. There will be various sessions and offerings from GrowFree Practitioners and members all designed to support you to winter well and rise up fresh in Spring. By Donation / Pay What You Can £15-60.
January 9th / 7:30 PM
Wintering Well with Jon Cree
An online gathering via Zoom filled with shared stories, poetry and reflections on what it means to winter well. Jon will also give more insight into the Together in Nature Training Journey. This is included in the Rest to Rise Retreat as well as accessible on its own by donation.
Do I need any specific experience or qualifications?
At GrowFree we know that life experience is more than enough to qualify us for expertise. This will support you to navigate any life experience more smoothly.
The training is also for qualified and experienced practitioners who would like to level-up their knowledge and confidence for trauma-informed, nature-based space-holding, education, therapeutic care and other support.
Are these residential trainings?
The Worcestershire training is being held at a residential venue called Anybody's Barn and as such is designed as a residential training. It may be possible to include some non-residential participants - email Jon to request this.
The Aberdeenshire training is held at GrowFree's home site near Kemnay. There are some accommodation options and camping will be available along with breakfast and dinner, for about £75 or dinner only for £32. The price listed above is non-residential.
What are the timings of the trainings?
Most of the content will be delivered 9am-4pm. However, there will be earlier morning and evening sessions that deepen the integration of material, the embodied experience and our connection as a community.
What will this qualify me to do?
Peer support and peer facilitation are desired and paid roles found in more and more fields. This training (along with our other courses) will support you to access these kinds of roles. Scotland has a national policy aiming for the workforce across all sectors to become trauma-informed. This training will support you to work in this way and our certificate of completion to demonstrate that.
We are considering whether to have our training accredited yet aware there may be a contradiction for us and our values with seeking external validation as opposed to trusting in internal knowing and our own sovereignty. This will be considered over 2025.
Is it for me and my organisation?
Together in Nature is an in-depth experiential training for anyone who holds or wants to hold trauma-sensitive space for themselves and/or others in nature. This could include Yoga teachers, holistic and somatic practitioners, support workers, peer facilitators, teachers, outdoor (and other) educators, health professionals, social workers, doctors, psychologists, parents, childcare workers and all manner of other roles and people.
Participants will come away with a more in-depth knowledge of how our nervous systems inter-relate with our natural (and other) worlds and how we can create and hold spaces that empower, soothe, and support others to tap into the support, guidance, wisdom and resources available. Participants will also leave with a manual and toolkit to support them to share this with others and embed it into their work and lives.
If this sounds like a 'yes' in your body, its for you.
If your organisation seeks to be trauma-sensitive, progressive, body-informed, ecologically aware and sustainable in terms of tapping into resources freely available in nature, then its for you.
Still Prefer to Speak before you . . .
. . Join the Journey with Us
Send us a message now to register your interest in the training or other event. Let us know your question or just tell us a little more about you, what draws you to our journey and anything else that feels important to you. We can arrange a chat to see if we're a fit.
Who are we?
GrowFree is a sole trader operated by Emma Baxter.
Business Address: Woodend Farmhouse, Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire AB51 7LA
Contact email address: [email protected]
Contact telephone number: 07590815175
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