ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relational aspects of a nature-based trauma therapy, specifically focusing on the enlivening, soothing, and resourcing processes that occur in such a dynamic space. Through working with movement, somatic communication, use of space, metaphor, and nature connection, the chapter explores how much of the therapy takes place in the non-conscious, nonverbal realm of experience. With the natural world acting both as co-therapist and as a fluid, relational context for the therapy, the work centres on how the client both reveals and then begins to heal their trauma via a live embodied relational process.
