Build Your Own Adventure Ecotourism Business
Mindful Hiking Guide And Retreat Leader Certification
Learn how to guide unforgettable mindful hiking experiences, develop experiential learning facilitation skills outdoors and launch your first nature retreat in 90 days.
The World Is Your Classroom
Teach Mindfulness Awareness, Experiential Learning And Build Community Outdoors
In the program, you will learn 7 different kinds of mindful peak experiences and how to facilitate them in groups so people can get out of their heads and step into the “felt presence” of their immediate experience.
We believe that if we are to build a regenerative future, we need to rewild learning and foster deeper human connection by building nature-based communities.
One of the easiest ways to do this is through experiential learning workshops, hikes and retreats.
This group certification program guides you through the process of crafting, selling and facilitating group experiences outdoors that create kinship between people and the natural world.
You will learn how to build a sustainable business and gain the confidence, practical marketing knowledge and technical skills to fill your events with likeminded people who want to learn outdoors and connect with nature.
Outdoor Experiential Learning And Team Building Activities
Get access to our library of experiential learning and team building activities you can use to craft your own outdoor workshops, hikes and retreats.
Here are some of the guided experiential learning activities that you can learn how to facilitate in this online certification program:
How The Mindful Ecotourism Hiking Guide Certification Works
Here’s what we be covering in this live 8-week group cohort program held on Zoom:
1. Mindful Awareness And The Kinship Worldview
We will start with a grounding in mindful awareness and explore how restoring kinship worldview and a spiritual ecology of mindful relationality in an interconnected web of life is essential to reverse today’s growing ecological crisis.
You will get guided practices for how to facilitate each of the 7 mindful peak experiences to help people let go of self-focused analytical thinking and shifting into immersive states of eco-focused mindfulness.
2. Facilitating Experiential Learning And Group Storytelling
You will learn how to apply the Kolb experiential learning model outdoors and facilitate group storytelling where people get to share their experience and know each other on a deeper level.
To build your confidence you’ll launch and facilitate your first group hiking experience with a small group of people you know to apply what you are learning each week.
3. Human Rewilding And The Science of Ecotherapy
Discover the fascinating science of ecotherapy, the research done on Shinrin-Yoku (forest bathing) in Japan and how nature-based communities can address today’s epidemic of degenerative physical and mental illnesses.
Learn why human rewilding and spending more time outdoor in community is the perfect antidote to screen overstimulation and why community builders will be one of the most important jobs as the coming wave of artificial intelligence replaces so many routine human jobs.
4. Citizen Science For Identifying Flora, Fauna And Fungi
Explore the interconnected web of life by learning to identify keystone species of local species of flora, fauna and fungi and the role they play in biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Get our experiential learning guides for using citizen science tools for developing your pattern recognition skills so you can identify the most important edible and medicinal plants and mushroom you will see each season outdoors.
5. Teaching Mindful Forest Bathing Invitations
Craft your own forest meditation workshops with 30 forest bathing invitations based on Japanese research and practices known as Shinrin-Yoku, which translates as “bathing in the atmosphere of the forest.”
Learn about the medicinal properties of plants, trees and mushrooms and why the world’s forest are like medicine cabinets offering a wide variety of herbal medicines as well as helping our overstimulated attentional and nervous systems relax and recharge.
6. Selling Your Outdoor Education Events With Ads
Get access to pre-built templates, sales funnels and guided facilitator trainings for crafting your own experiential learning workshops, hikes and retreats.
Learn how to fill your workshop by with only $10/day of Meta and Google Ads to attract your ideal people. Get in-depth training on marketing strategies for promoting and selling out your events with ads and joint ventures so you don’t have to constantly post on social media.
7. Building A Hybrid Online/Offline Community
The most important part of growing a sustainable business is building an engaged community where people get to know, learn from you and get notified when you launch your experiential learning workshops and events.
We will cover the foundations of building an hybrid online/offline community that makes it easy to fill your events. We will also be covering important topics like hiking safety, insurance, taxes, compliance, ethics, referrals and building a sustainable business that doesn’t burn you out.
8. Group Coaching And Nature Retreat Leadership
We will end by covering how to upsell people from your experiential learning events into paid group coaching programs and mastermind groups where people get the accountability and support they need to build mindful habits in a likeminded community.
Get templates, sales funnels and coaching program outlines for each season so you can focus on important experiential learning and nature connection practices in 4-week group programs launched each Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
About The Instructor
Kyle Pearce a certified interpretive hiking guide, mindfulness-based ecotherapy practitioner and digital marketing professional who has over a decade of experience helping social impact startups grow.
He started Mindful Ecotourism in 2016 leading forest meditation workshops in Stanley Park near his home in Vancouver. Today, he lives and leads nature retreats in Banff National Park during the summer and in Central and South America in the winter.
Kyle has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, he runs an online coaching community called DIY Genius since 2011 and he has led over 250 paid outdoor workshops, hikes and retreats so he provides participants with plug-and-play templates, sales funnels and online ads training so they can consistently sell out their events.
He has a B.A. in History from the University of Victoria with a specialization in ancient civilizations, animism and the history of the modern world where he developed a passion for spiritual ecology, mindfulness in nature and building a regenerative future.
Build Your Own Adventure Ecotourism Business
Mindful Hiking Guide And Retreat Leader Certification
Learn how to guide unforgettable mindful hiking experiences, develop experiential learning facilitation skills outdoors and launch your first nature retreat in 90 days.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How is this different than other ecotherapy and forest therapy programs?
Most ecotherapy and forest therapy programs are run by non-profits that don’t teach you how to sell out your workshops or build a business.
Kyle teaches from the experience he has gained from leading over 250 paid outdoor workshops, hikes and retreats.
He provides participants with plug-and-play templates, sales funnels and online ads training so they can consistently sell out their events, which is something that most coaches, teachers and facilitators struggle with.
Do I need any other certifications?
To run your own hikes and retreats we’d also recommend getting 40-Hour Wilderness First Aid Training.
Other participants have certifications in forest therapy, ecotherapy and herbalism but they are optional.