CERTIFIED OUTDOOR FACILITATOR
Who are you?
This certification program is a truly unique and comprehensive learning journey and thus require that you have at least 3-4 years of facilitation experience. This experience can come from working in one or several of these roles:
Process consultant
HR Business Partner
Eco-/nature therapist
Learning and development professional
Psychotherapist
Project Manager
Coach
Consultant
Previous facilitation experience is a prerequisite.
You love facilitating processes and feel a great belonging to and admiration of the natural world. Learn from us how to bring your facilitation outdoors!
This certification program is a unique and comprehensive facilitator development program for facilitators, coaches, consultants and learning and development professionals, who want to learn how to safely and effectively facilitate processes and groups in the great outdoors.
Several scientific research studies reveal the effectiveness of facilitating with the natural world compared to class room facilitation, from improved working memory, increased focus, attention and clarity of thought to creative thinking, perspective taking, improved collaboration and higher learning retention.
Basic certification
Achieve a certification to demonstrate that you’re capable of designing and delivering effective and safe outdoor facilitation.
Experienced trainers
Your trainers have more than 15 years of facilitation experience and experience with working with clients and have a deep and profound love and care for the natural world.
Powerful tools
Fill your facilitation toolbox with new, powerful and proven outdoor facilitation tools. Bring something new and effective to your clients and differentiate yourself as facilitator.
Immersive experience
Spend 4 days (3+1) immersing yourself in the wonders of the natural world. Experience yourself, nature and facilitation in completely new ways.
Next free introduction webinar: April 14th, 3 - 3:30 CET
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What you’ll learn:
Foundations and principles of Outdoor Facilitation
How to work with the natural world as a co-facilitator and how to blend in the symbolic, energetic and contemplative powers of nature into your facilitation
Experience the reciprocal relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world and how to integration this relationship into facilitation
Outdoor facilitation tools, such as:
The Shared Vision
The Meeting In The Middle
The Teamwheel
The 4 Intentions Council
How to allow insights and learnings from the natural world to simply emerge without analyzing, judging or concluding
How to use Panarch theory and the 4 seasons to facilitate change
Basic knowledge of scientific research about the benefits of outdoor facilitation and the ability to communicate it
You as an Outdoor Facilitator: self awareness, self management and self motivation using the 4 Elements archetype model
Sustainable outdoor behaviors and attitudes
Using the Design Star for effective design and planning
Creating and maintaining the right energy and group dynamics outdoors
Venue & guide selection
Risk assessment & safety management
Prototyping of your own outdoor facilitation process
Give and receive feedback in peer-groups
The certification program in a nutshell
The outdoor facilitation training gives you confidence and courage for the integration of natural elements in group processes. As a result, sustainable transformation in organizations can unfold more naturally.
Dates (2025):
3-day Training module: May 30th - June 3rd
1-day Integration module: October 3rd
Location and accommodation:
Villa Skovly, 55 Gammel Lundeborgsvej, 5874 Hesselager
Glamping Fyn | villa-skovly.dk | Lundeborg
The process:
Before enrolling into the program, you’ll be invited to a brief consultation call with one of our trainers to manage expectations, what you’d like to gain from the program and assess your credentials for successfully completing the program.
We work with elements of self-awareness and personal development in combination with experiential knowledge transfer and implementation. We will find ourselves in a constant change of impulses, experiences and reflections and enable a transfer into our own everyday life.
After the 1-day integration module, we meet 2 times online and provide a community platform to facilitate the integration of what we’ve learned and share experiences and practices.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
DAY 1: Arriving and learning to sense natural environments and yourself
Arrival practice individual and in a circle
Opening ceremony
7 Sensory practices
Listening practices - the 5 levels
Experience the attributes of different natural environment and cultivating nature awareness
Experience nature as a co-facilitator
The 7 foundations for effective outdoor-based facilitation
DAY 2: Outdoor-based facilitation - frameworks and techniques
Accessibility and safety in nature
Matching client case with activity selection and design specific to outdoor settings (Design Star)
How group dynamics change in natural settings and how to embrace it
Building trust and connection in a nature-based group setting
Practice sensing, recognizing and dealing with group dynamics
Experiment Outdoor facilitation exercises and tools
DAY 3: Planning and executing an outdoor-based facilitation
Prepare and rehearse practicum
Facilitation execution and Hot-chair feedback based on the 7 foundations of effective outdoor facilitation
Comprehensive review of course concepts and skills
Individual reflection and goal-setting for continued development
2-hour follow up webinar
Insurance
Risk assessment and management in natural environments
Emergency response and evacuation planning
Communicating outdoor-based facilitation tenders to the business world
Practicum
Design, execute and evaluate min. 2 outdoor facilitation sessions (Optional: Supervision)
Min. 1 buddy session
1 coaching session
DAY 4: Integration
The 4 elements archetypes at work
Feedback circles, lessons learned
Establishing a personal code of conduct in natural settings
Sit-spot self awareness based on Find Your Flow
Sharing circles based of the 4 Intentions
Next steps
Certification ceremony, group photo and closing ceremony
Program highlights
4 days (3+1) immersed in nature in a unique natural environment
Design outdoor tools for your work context, test them in a group and integrate them into your agenda
Experience, guide and master our best outdoor tools
Developing and communicating inspiring outdoor facilitation offers
Get to know and communicate scientific studies on benefits of being and facilitating in nature
A strong community of like-minded people for collaborative sharing of experience and projects
3-day immersive training
1-day immersive integration
3 experienced outdoor facilitators as trainers
1 individual pre-certification on-line meeting
2 online meetings for sharing of experience, practices and integration and further development of what has been learned
In-depth tools and playbooks
Official Certificate of Completion handed out during an official ceremony
2 nights in a single room or bring your own tent
All meals (regional, organic, vegetarian) included: 2 x breakfast, 3 x lunch, 2 x dinner, cold and warm drinks as well as snacks / fruits throughout the day
Free introduction webinar
Get to know more about the Certified Outdoor Facilitator program by joining our 30-minute free webinar. Join and receive a limited discount voucher.
Next free introduction webinar: April 14th, 3 - 3:30 CET
Your investment in becoming a Certified Outdoor Facilitator
Price (incl. all meals & overnight stay in a single room as long as available): 14.495 DKK.
If you bring your own tent, the price is: 11.495 DKK (dependent on the venue).
3.995 DKK is to be paid during registration to secure your seat.
Remaining payment is due 14 days in advance of the first course day. You may to choose to pay this in installments - contact us for further information.
