Nature Connectivity | Nature (Re)Connection Certification
With our Nature (Re)Connection Certification, you will guide groups in the forest or in a park to offer them an unforgettable experience where participants learn about and experience the benefits of nature as revealed by contemporary scientific research — including how nature affects the brain and the immune system, why it reduces stress, and how it restores our cognitive abilities.
Our next Certified Guide Session will run in Fall 2025!
Course Dates: 5 November - 17 December 2025
Course Length: 7 weeks, online
Class Days: Wednesdays (3h) and Saturdays (3h)
IMPORTANT: Ecoleader is a prerequisite for the Nature (Re)Connexion Certification course
Fall Session 2025
The Fall Session of the Nature (Re)Connection Certification course will run from 5 November 2025 - 17 December 2025.
Please note that the Ecoleader Course is a pre-requisite.
This course will run in the weeks before, from 10 September - 25 October 2025.
Course Description
The whole world wants to reconnect with nature. Show them how!
The Nature (Re)Connection Certification trains you to design and lead reconnection experiences using the method developed by UNature: a 7-step sensory journey in nature, based on more than 5,500 scientific publications. We created this experiential and cognitive method, Nature (Re)Connection, to facilitate the transmission of this scientific knowledge within our communities.
You will have at your disposal a wide range of practical exercises to offer, along with extensive knowledge covering environmental psychology, biology, sociology, and anthropology.
By obtaining the Nature (Re)Connection Certification, you join a community of nature connection enthusiasts! Trainers from Canada, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and Belgium are waiting to share experiences, feelings, and knowledge with you on this very current topic.
This training is especially aimed at:
Coaches, therapists, and professionals in helping relationships
Facilitators, community workers, and nature educators
People undergoing career changes who want to make nature reconnection a core part of their practice
Most people trained by UNature say they have been deeply transformed by this teaching. They have changed their perception of the natural world, of course, but also of their own nature.
This course aims to help you:
Teach, through an immersive experience, to groups, individuals, or institutions, the benefits of connection with nature
Guide sensory immersions in nature using the exclusive Nature (Re)Connection method
Communicate scientific research in an accessible way to diverse audiences
Stay up to date with the latest scientific advances
Adopt an embodied, sensitive, and rigorous pedagogical approach
Adapt the method to different contexts and audiences (corporate, school, institutional, etc.).
Lead the Nature (Re)Connection sessions requested from UNature through its network.
Support ecological transition by placing humans back at the heart of nature.
Deepen your own relationship with nature.
In the Nature Connectivity | Nature (Re)Connection Certification you will discover:
Nature (Re)Connection Certification Curriculum
Modules 1-7: Ecoleader Course
✔ The successful completion of the Nature Connectivity | Ecoleader course is a prerequisite to become a certified guide.
Module 8 - Conveying Knowledge
✔ Explanation of the Nature (Re)Connection program and overview of the fundamental elements of the activity. Encounter with and testimony from certified guides.
✔ Specifications of Nature (Re)Connection: comparison with other types of nature activities (like Shinrin Yoku, Forest Bathing, Sylvotherapy…). An experiential, sensible and cognitive approach.
✔ The activity: choice of premises, overview of the different stages. How to identify the ideal place and path
Module 9 - Stages 1 & 2: Entering the Forest and Relaxation
✔ Every stage of the Nature (Re)Connection activity is built around the transmission of current scientific knowledge on the impact of nature on each of our senses, its effect on physical and mental health, as well as experiential exercises.
✔ Study of scientific knowledge, experiential activities and other logistical modalities related to these two stages of the activity.
Module 10 - Stage 3: Touch
✔ Study of scientific knowledge, experiential activities and other logistical modalities related to this stage of the activity.
Module 11 - Stage 4: Sight
✔ Study of scientific knowledge, experiential activities and other logistical modalities related to this stage of the activity.
Module 12 - Stage 5: Hearing
✔ Study of scientific knowledge, experiential activities and other logistical modalities related to this stage of the activity.
Module 13 - Stage 6: Smell
✔ Study of scientific knowledge, experiential activities and other logistical modalities related to this stage of the activity.
Module 14 - Stage 7: Niksen and Closure
✔ Study of scientific knowledge, experiential activities and other logistical modalities related to these two stages of the activity.
✔ This class marks the end of the mandatory Certified Guide training.
Revision: Learning to learn
✔ Study and memorization strategies: how to approach the course material, synthesize it, understand it and reproduce it during the theoretical and practical exams.
✔ Discover studying methods based on neuroscience and get practical tips for memorizing.
Revision: Express science naturally
✔ Discover how to use your senses to learn study more efficiently.
✔ Capture the attention of your listeners.
✔ Learn how to create a Nature (Re)Connection that is true to yourself while keeping science at the forefront.
✔ Find out what impact your thought and movement patterns have on your ability to express yourself accurately and originally.
Your Instructors
Julie Schadeck is the General Manager at UNature. As such, she collaborates with local organizations, schools, businesses, and policymakers in developing new projects that advocate for the integration of nature-centric practices into various sectors.
By teaching this class, Julie gets to live her passion of helping people (re)connect to and understand the intrinsic value of nature, whether it is by explaining how we arrived at where we are today, or by sharing the many amazing things that nature has to offer. Holding an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy, she is also a Certified Guide herself and has thus experienced first hand the impact that this innovative course focusing on the human/nature connection can have on the people that follow it.
Chantal Carrier teaches presence and self-awareness to help people express themselves with confidence, accuracy, and coherence, while remaining true to themselves. Her interventions in the revision module of the guide formation will help future guides to find a personal and flexible approach to their activities in the forest, as well as facilitate the memorization of the content.
Chantal was trained at The School of Dance in Ottawa (Canada). She then developed various techniques linking verbal expression to posture, which she teaches to professional speakers throughout Quebec. She is also a certified guide from UNature.
Class Prices
UNature is deeply committed to social and environmental justice. Part of your registration fees funds projects to share the impacts of nature with disadvantaged populations (free participation in Nature (Re)Connections, scholarships for classes, trainings, school aids, etc.).
Nature Connectivity | Ecoleader
1.390,00 CAD (924,00 € TTC)
Or 4 monthly installments of 345 CAD (231 € TTC)
Nature Connectivity | Nature (Re)Connection Certification
2.760,00 CAD (1.848,00 € TTC)*
Or 6 monthly installments of 460 CAD (308 € TTC)
*This price already includes de Ecoleader class since it is a pre-requisite.
For those who have already completed Ecoleader at an earlier time and wish to continue with the Nature (Re)Connection Certification course, the cost is: 1380 CAD (924 € TTC) or 4 monthly installments of 345 CAD (231 € TTC).
Scholarship Application
UNature awards one scholarship per semester. This scholarship allows the participant to follow our courses completely free of charge. To find out more about the requirements and to apply for a scholarship, head here.
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Fall Session 2025
The Fall Session of the Nature (Re)Connection Certification course will run from 5 November 2025 - 17 December 2025.
Please note that the Ecoleader Course is a pre-requisite.
This course will run in the weeks before, from 10 September - 25 October 2025.