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  • 2024 Healing with Nature Retreat

  • 2023 Healing with Nature Retreat


Healing with Nature: An Immersive Wilderness Therapy Workshop
Sep
22
to Sep 24

Healing with Nature: An Immersive Wilderness Therapy Workshop

Sold Out!

If you miss the registration window or if the workshop is full, please email snowy@wolftreewildernesstherapy.com to be added to a waitlist.

Come join Snowy Lajoie, LCSW-R and KMOG for an immersive, experiential workshop weekend at Light on the Hill, a serene retreat located in the wooded hills of Van Etten, NY (30 mins from Ithaca, NY).

This retreat is open to all helping professionals (therapists, teachers, coaches, medical providers, SLPs, OTs, RNs, psychiatrists, etc.) who are interested in learning and experiencing how nature-based therapeutic interventions can help restore and heal our clients and ourselves. 19 continuing education (CE) credits are available.

There are two registration options:

  • On-Campus Package

    • For participants who are staying at the Inner Light Lodge at Light on the Hill for the duration of the workshop

    • Includes all lodging, all meals (gourmet vegetarian), 19 CE credits, and all workshop events.

      • $550 per person (single room, 18 rooms total available)

      • $500 per person (double room/2 people, 4 rooms total available)

  • Commuter Package

    • For participants who are commuting to the retreat from the local area

    • Includes all meals (gourmet vegetarian), 19 CE credits and all workshop events.

      • $450 per person (5 registration spots total available)


 
 
 

Information on Continuing Education credits (CEs):

This workshop has been approved for 19 CEs via R.Cassidy.

Psychologists:

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0018. 19 contact hour. Live online.

Social Work:

IL-SWs: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #159.000785. 19 CE hour.

MN: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the Minnesota Board of Social Work, CEP #2281 approval 2/22/22 – 2/22/23. 19 CE hour.

NY: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider (#0006) of continuing education for licensed social workers. This program is approved for 19 contact hour Live online.

OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 19 clock hour, #RCST110701

Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists

IL-MFTs: Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, Approved Continuing Education Sponsor, #168-000141. 19 hour.

OH: Provider approved by the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for 19 clock hour, #RCST110701

TX: Approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Provider #151 19 CE hour.

Chemical Dependency Counselors

CA: Provider approved by CCAPP, Provider #4N-00-434-0555 for 19CEH. CCAPP is an ICRC member which has reciprocity with most ICRC member states

TX: Provider approved by the TCBAP Standards Committee, Provider No. 1749-06, 19 hour general. Expires 1/31/23. Complaints about provider or workshop content may be directed to the TCBAP Standards Committee, 1005 Congress Avenue, Ste. 460, Austin, Texas 78701, Fax Number (515) 476-7597.

Educators

TX: R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with the Texas Education Agency CPE# 501456. This course is 19 CE hour.

Nurses

CA: Provider approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CeP15554, for 19 contact hour

Dentists

CA: R. Cassidy Seminars is a provider approved by the Dental Board of California as a registered provider of continuing education. RP# 4874 19 CE hour.


Cancellation Policy:

If you cancel your registration by May 1, 2023, you will receive a 100% refund, minus any taxes or registration fees.

If you cancel your registration by July 1, 2023, you will receive a 50% refund, minus any taxes or registration fees.

After July 1, 2023, you may be eligible for a 25% refund for cancelations, minus any taxes or registration fees.

For questions or concerns, please email snowy@wolftreewildernesstherapy.com


Health & Safety Policy:

For the health, safety, and comfort of all participants, each individual will be responsible for taking a COVID test (either OTC antigen test or PCR) within 24 hours of the start of the training. If the results are positive, or if the individual is experiencing active symptoms of COVID or influenza, then that person will not be allowed to participate in the weekend workshop. This policy is dependent on the “honor system” and on a participant’s self-report of his/her/their own health status.

This event will be held in indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the weekend. Masks are always welcomed but not required.


Disclosure statement:

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.


Wolftree will contribute 0.5% of your purchase to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.

Wolf Tree Wilderness Therapy will contribute 0.5% of your purchase to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.


Location:

Light on the Hill

209 Blake Hill Road

Van Etten, NY 14889

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