ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the practice of environmental arts therapy working in parks and woodland in North London. An emphasis is placed on the geographical spaces used and the process of working indoors and moving outside. A description is given of the Circle of Trees group and the environmental arts therapy training course and considers the continuities and differences experienced when moving one’s creative art therapy practice outdoors. Particular attention is paid to the seasonal changes, the indigenous Celtic cultural knowledge of the tree calendar, and how nature provides visual and sensory experiences that stimulate metaphor, imagination and art responses.
