The Inner Ecology Program

Building resilience and emotional intelligence through nature.

We live in an age of high stress, constant change, and information overload.
Inner Ecology is a nature-based experiential learning program designed to develop our capacity to meet these demands with greater awareness, regulation, clarity and intention.
The program includes four sequential workshops that bring together guided nature immersion, embodied practices, facilitated reflection and take-home exercises.
Informed by eco-psychology, neuroscience, and land-based learning methods.
Workshop 1: PAUSE — Regulate and ground
Interrupt information overload, restore attention and cultivate grounding.
Workshop 2: FEEL — Listen inwardly and outwardly
Recognise sensation and emotion as information and develop greater emotional awareness.
Workshop 3: DIGEST — Make meaning
Integrate information and experience, identify patterns and create space for reflection.
Workshop 4: RESPOND — Choose intentionally
Translate awareness into action, adaptation or acceptance according to the situation.
Nature is not simply the setting for the program. It is part of the learning methodology.
Natural environments provide opportunities to slow down, restore attention, engage the senses, gain perspective and observe the principles of adaptation, interdependence and regeneration at work.
Participants don't simply learn about these concepts. They experience them.
Each workshop will be delivered as a two-hour, in-person, facilitated session with take-home materials and resources.
All equipment and resources needed for the workshop will be provided.
Full program (four sessions in total)
$6,000
Number of Participants: 12
Price per Extra Participant: $250
Various workshop locations are offered around Sydney, selected in consultation with each client. Travel to and from the agreed location is excluded.

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Cheryl Simpson

Monica facilitated an engaging and unique team building opportunity for my childcare team of 16 educators in Squamish. She was prepared, knowledgeable, flexible and accommodating. She was open to collaboration and feedback in the planning stages and was very personable and professional on the day of the event.
Camille Verdiere

I had the chance to do a forest therapy session with Monica. That was just wonderful. I truly reconnected with myself but also with the forest, the nature. You realized you are not alone, you are a part of something. I recommend it for all people are looking for senses, self-development, reconnection, open heart moment.
Thank you for this, I don't see the forest with the same eyes.
Heather Hendrie

Monica & crew at Society of Trees are the consummate professionals! If you’re wanting your team to experience a gentle, connecting, deep dive into nature, check it out!
Brendan Boyce

Amazing!! Monica was amazing! This experience is amazing! I didn't know what to expect but when I finished with the immersion I felt a vigorous renewal. A great way to disconnect from the every day hustle and explore nature in a way you have never experienced before. An open curiosity is all that you need to bring with you.
Evelyn Coggins

Forest therapy is a practice supporting every aspect of health and well being. Monica is a committed and practiced forest therapy guide. I highly recommend her services.
Valerie L

What a great experience! Monica creates a beautiful space that is grounding and full of connection. I left feeling lighter, nourished and knowing the insight I gained would serve long after it was over.
Lucy Hodgkinson-Fisher

Monica is a wonderful, intuitive guide. I often get distracted during guided meditations, but not this time! I was completely immersed in, what felt like, an in-person crash course in Braiding Sweetgrass 🌿. Highly recommend ✨
Gabriele Hailazidis

Amazing, so enriching. Re-connect with nature and realise your inner trust and connection strengthening. Monica has an amazing way of making the experience deep, very meaningful and fun. Enjoyable memory leaving traces in your heart whilst respecting and appreciating everything around us.
Candace Whitlock

Monica took us for a beautiful guided meditation in the forest. She set up before hand and clearly put in so much effort to make it a welcoming space for us all to go to and share. I would highly recommend forest therapy - the meditation session helped me to feel more present not just at that moment, but for a week afterwards, and I’ve implemented my own forest bathing meditation sessions where I still use the things she taught us.
Lisa Richardson

Beautiful, informed, spacious, grounding, relaxing... Society of Trees offers a unique self-care experience that provides relaxation and an energetic lift that lasts longer than a massage or bubble bath, and is accessible afterwards forever. Having various ways to reconnect with the larger Earth around us, shared by Society of Trees, through invitations and processes, all backed by science, is a lovely experience. Highly recommended.
Stewardship Pemberton

The Forest Therapy Session with Society of Trees was so lovely and the teachings are lasting. I find myself returning to the place we practiced with a renewed sense of connection to self, place, community and nature. Monica's open heart and gentle guidance are truly a gift to the world!