Forest Therapy - New Growth

After few months of recovering from my operation, I finally restarted my forest therapy session and this time I had about 8 participants. I am always very encouraged by returning participants. This time I had one who came when I organized my first public session and she came back again to spend time with nature. I named my first session of 2025 - New Growth. I believe that it was not a conincident that we had our session on 23 March 2025 and 20 March was the official first day of Spring. 21 March was also International Day of Forest. As we entered into the season of Spring, it’s the season of new growth and new lives budding. The 8 participants came mainly from the education industry and I had a pretty international group make up - a few British, Singaporeans, Indian, Philippine, Chinese, Americans and Thais.

After the Pleasure of Presence, I only had time to do two partnership invitations. I love this invitation that I did with the. I invited the participants to go out there to fellowship with a more-than-human being and invited them to talk about what were some of the things that they were able to control and some of the things they could in 2024. Also I wanted them to reflect on the values that carried them through and invited them to pick items that would represent their top 3 values. The result was a beautiful picture of nature-items of their values. There were pretty deep sharing from the participants.

I received pretty good feedback from this session. One participant asked me what is my motivation of doing this for free? I replied saying that I have received much from nature myself and I believe that should return a favour to nature by offering invitations to others. Through my invitations, I wish that they can spend time with nature and learn to slow down with forest.

Ronneth

3 April 2025