Testimonials by the participants of the Training Course
Participant testimonials highlight the deep personal and professional impact of the training course. Many youth workers described the experience as transformative, noting increased calm, emotional stability, self-awareness, and connection to nature.
Participants emphasized the value of embodied learning, wandering practices, dream work, councils, creative expression, and structured reflection. Several reported feeling more grounded, resourceful, and motivated to bring these methods into their professional practice.
A recurring takeaway was the desire to share the methodology with others and integrate nature-based human development approaches into youth work, therapy, and community settings. The testimonials confirm the relevance, depth, and applicability of the project’s approach.
Here are some examples of participants opinions:
What has shifted in you as a result of the program?
- I feel very inspired to start doing, to make a difference and it somehow feels easier now than before the programme. Like I have a lot of resources and vocabulary to use my voice and experience to make a difference.
- The training offered a great space for learning and personal growth. My commitment to guiding people and creating nature-based learning experiences have become even stronger.
- The main conclusion and take away for me was to feel a desire and inner motivation to pass on this method and way of life to other people, friends and my clients.
Which elements/methods/practices of the program were most valuable for you?
- All practices that made me move to the edge of my stretch zone. Hmmm, I think most of them were moving me to experience things I haven’t experienced before.
- The guides magic during the first five days. The dreamwork and the possibilities to have one to one guidance
- To wander in nature with tasks to do or reflect upon. To be in nature. I wish it had been even more of this. To find some new words/vocabulary was very valuable to me as well. To be in a group in general gives great depth for me. Dream work also.
- Wanderings in the nature, reading and writing poems, all exercises that creates space for sharing and reflections like Mandala council. I appreciate a lot the meeting groups for reflection and the morning dream work during the breakfast.
What are your key take-aways from the course?
- The importance of being in different artforms, the troughs of the nature, the importance of being in our real essence
- Embodied experience, clear structure and ready exercises/experiences to implement with others.
- Nature-based human development methods for working with young people: new insights for using the methods and practices. Structured methodology for assessment of needs, design and implementation of programmes, using the eco-centric map of human wholeness.
- I have joy for the smooth and empathic experience as a big picture. I will bring the feeling of being in a such a nice group of people. I liked the frame of the method to use as a tool. I think I didn’t really land yet to answer this question properly.
You can download the full Evaluation Report of the training at this link – https://learningforchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Evaluation-Report-TC-The-Way-of-Nature-KA2.pdf