Holding Care with the Land: Forest Therapy and Collective Healing

Join us for this interactive virtual session in the next BUSSW Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series event exploring Forest Therapy as a practice of collective, justice-oriented care. Participants are invited to reflect on how land, listening, and relationship shape healing and belonging. Rather than treating nature as a resource, Forest Therapy offers a way of being with the land rooted in reciprocity, presence, and care. Grounded in ancestral ways of knowing and trauma-informed, equity-focused practice, the session considers how access to land, rest, and healing has been shaped by history and systemic inequities. Through guided reflection and dialogue, participants will explore their own relationships to care—how it is given, received, and held within communities and systems—while learning how Forest Therapy can support collective healing in times of grief, burnout, and change. This event is part of the BUSSW Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series presented by BU School of Social Work’s Equity & Inclusion Committee. Please visit bu.edu/ssw/eiss for additional details, past event recordings and more. One CE credit will be available to social workers licensed in Massachusetts. If you wish to receive CE credit, please provide your license number in the registration form.

Register by: 2/25/2026
When 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm on 26 February 2026
Contact Name Boston University School of Social Work
Contact Email bussw@bu.edu
Contact Organization Boston University School of Social Work
Fees free
Open To public
Speakers Andrea Jaramillo