This Online Nature Connection Guide is brought to you by An Darach Forest Therapy
and funded by local Green Health, Community and Environmental initiatives.
Nature Connection Guide
It’s not just the connection with nature that’s important,
it’s about the nature of the connection
This Nature Connection Guide currently just covers the Scottish Highlands but we will be developing it further across Scotland and Northern Ireland during 2023.
We hope to begin to add publicly accessible green spaces in England and Wales in 2024.
If you would like to nominate a local green space to be mapped for nature connection activities, please contact us.
If none of these locations are convenient for you, have a look at our ‘Virtual Nature Connection Tours’.
How it Works
This Nature Connection Guide offers a range of simple nature connection activities that you can try in different locations.
The idea is to really slow down to the pace of nature, connect with nature through all your senses and experience the benefits to wellbeing greater nature connection can bring.
Use the navigation to select that area that you are visiting, then use the interactive map to select a location and follow the suggestions. You are free to try the activities that appeal to you and leave the ones that do not. You can also download a PDF of the nature connection activities to take with you if you prefer.
Each map contains 360º pictures of the location and suggested nature connection activities that you can try.
Environmental Responsibility Pledge
“People protect what they love, they love what they understand and they understand what they are taught”
- Jacques Cousteau
We are all caretakers of the environment and our vision is to help you to learn about and understand the benefits of increased nature connection, so that you will collectively care for our natural world.
In using this Nature Connection Guide resource, we hope that you will pledge to:
Take only nature connection journal entries, photographs and memories (and the occasional fallen pinecone or interesting leaf), and leave only footprints
To reflect on what you can offer back to nature, so that the locations listed are not just used and exploited by humans for their wellbeing potential, but benefit from a reciprocal relationship