2/26: Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series Event on Nature-Based Healing, Featuring Andrea Jaramillo

BUSSW’s Equity and Inclusion Speaker Series Presents

Holding Care with the Land: Forest Therapy and Collective Healing 

Thursday, February 26, 2026
5:30–6:45 p.m. (ET)
Virtual on Zoom

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Join us for this interactive virtual session 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.

Accessibility

Boston University strives to be accessible, inclusive and diverse in our facilities, programming and academic offerings. Your experience in this event is important to us. If you have a disability or believe you may require accommodation for another reason, please contact the BUSSW Equity & Inclusion Committee at swequity@bu.edu to discuss your needs. 

About Andrea Jaramillo

Andrea Jaramillo (she/they) is a certified Forest Therapy Guide and founder of Forest Nurse, which offers guided experiences that foster healing, connection, and well-being through time in nature. Drawing on her background as a registered nurse in labor and delivery, hospice, and maternal–infant public health, her work approaches Forest Therapy as collective, justice-oriented care rooted in relational, equity-focused practice and honoring ancestral ways of knowing. She invites reflection on access to land, rest, healing, grief-tending, belonging, and how we care and are cared for within our communities and systems.