Eco-Somatic Self-Care and Resilience for Educators
Description: Training that invites participants to reconnect with the restorative power of nature while learning practical, science-based tools for wellbeing and regeneration. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and eco-somatic practices, the course explores how breath, movement, and sensory awareness - combined with time in nature - can strengthen resilience, reduce stress, and recharge energy.
The participants will discover how aligning with natural rhythms and developing a stronger relationship with the natural world not only supports physical and mental health but also awakens intuition, creativity, and inner balance. Participants will leave with a personal toolkit of evidence-based strategies they can use to sustain themselves in demanding professional environments and inspire wellbeing in their students and communities.
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Dates and Locations
- 02.–06.11.2026
Don’t see the dates that suit your group? Send us an e-mail with the proposed dates and location and we will get back to you.*
*- Only in case you are 7 or more persons from the same organisation.
Daily Programme
Monday - The Forest
- Welcome, introductions, and community agreements
- The forest as the week's opening landscape archetype
- The case for educator wellbeing: burnout, compassion fatigue, and the foundations of resilience and wellbeing
- Naming the cultural context: digital disconnection, loss of community, and separation from natural rhythms
- Introduction to biophilia and the science of nature connection
- Somatic practice: body scan, grounding breath, and arriving in the body
- Journaling practice inspired by the Forest archetype.
- Introducing the personal Nature Relationship practice
- Closing reflections
Tuesday - The Desert
- Desert as the landscape archetype of the day
- Somatic practice – breath, stillness, movement
- Understanding the nervous system: our responses to safety, stress, and shutdown
- Reading your own somatic signals: mapping personal stress patterns and depletion stages
- The four elements (earth, water, fire, air) as frameworks for self-understanding — including Ayurvedic perspective
- Elemental self-inquiry and embodied exploration
- Expanded states of awareness
- The need to unburden
- Desert-inspired journaling/drawing/art
Wednesday - Water
- Water opening practice: fluid body movement, breath as a wave, tidal rhythms of the body
- The science of circadian and circannual rhythms: light, darkness, melatonin, serotonin, and seasonal cycles
- Practical and free strategies for realigning with natural light rhythms — and understanding the cost of disruption
- The psychology of flow states and emotion as information rather than disruption
- Relational awareness and co-regulation
- The water archetype in myth and story: rivers, the sea, rain — flow, depth, renewal
- Journaling/art water inspired practice: what is flowing in your life right now — and what is dammed up, waiting to move?
Thursday - The Mountain
- Mountain opening practice: grounding and verticality, breathwork connecting earth and sky
- Resilience in helping professionals: post-traumatic growth, meaning, and community
- Somatic resourcing tools
- Vision, deep time, ancestral wisdom
- Balance between challenge and comfort
- Journaling practice - What is your mountain — the challenge asking you to grow? Who is climbing with you?
Friday - Grassland
- Participant-led morning: each person shares and guides the group in a practice from the week
- Community and co-regulation: sharing circle
- Roots and networks: how individual wellbeing ripples into organisations, teams, and communities
- How to introduce eco-somatic micro-practices into school culture — meetings, transitions, daily rhythms
- Building the Personal Resilience Toolkit: regulation, restoration, expansion, connection
- Harvest Circle: participants share insights, practices, and gifts they carry back to their community
- Closing reflections, feedback and certificates
Competences Acquired by Participants
By the end of the training course, participants will:
Knowledge & Understanding
- Understand the neuroscience and psychology of stress, burnout, and resilience
- Learn the science of circadian and circannual rhythms and their profound — and often overlooked — impact on mood, energy, health, creativity and cognition
- Understand the concept of biophilia and the evidence for nature's role in restoring attention, reducing cortisol, and promoting psychological well-being
- Explore how the four elements (earth, water, fire, air) can serve as frameworks for self-understanding and balance
Skills & Practice
- Develop a personalised breathwork toolkit using evidence-based techniques for regulation, restoration, and expansion
- Build a somatic movement practice that can be woven into daily professional life
- Learn practical strategies for aligning with natural light, darkness, and seasonal rhythms without requiring significant time or resources
- Practise mindful nature awareness and develop a personal relationship with a living being (such as a tree) as a meditative and grounding anchor
- Explore natural ways to expand the mind and access deeper states — using breathwork, movement, art, journaling, and visualisation
Attitudes & Transferable Capacities
- Reframe self-care as a professional and collective responsibility, not a personal indulgence
- Develop greater embodied self-awareness — the ability to notice and respond to the body's signals before reaching depletion
- Strengthen relational awareness and the capacity for co-regulation within teams and communities
- Leave with a felt sense of connection to the natural world as a resource for creativity, intuition, belonging and renewal
Type of Certification of Attendance Awarded
- Certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input
- Europass mobility certificates – to be issued by the applicant’s NA
Course Packages
Please note that ‘All in one – single room’ and ‘All in one – double room’ packages are being offered only in Limassol, Cyprus
1. ‘ALL IN ONE – Single room’ PACKAGE - 1240€
- Tuition fee and training material
- Certificate of Competence
- Accommodation in a Single room in a 3 or 4-star hotel (6 nights)
- Full Board (5 days)
- Administration costs
- Coffee Breaks
- Cultural visit
2. ‘ALL IN ONE – Double Room Sharing’ PACKAGE- 1040€
- Tuition fee and training material
- Certificate of Competence
- Accommodation - double room sharing in a 3 or 4-star hotel (6 nights)
- Full Board (5 days)
- Administration costs
- Coffee Breaks
- Cultural visit
*Choose double room sharing if you are 2 colleagues from the same organisation willing to share a double room/ or if you have any accompanying person travelling to the venue of the course together with you (we can arrange the accommodation for accompanying persons as well).
3. ‘BASIC’ course PACKAGE - 450€
- Tuition fee and training material
- Certificate of Competence
- Administration costs
- Coffee Breaks
- Cultural visit
Note: separate invoices for the training fee only (400 EUR) can be issued upon request from the organisation.
DOREA as well offers group discounts in the case of 7 or more persons from the same organisation.
