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ForwardMarch 20, 2026 Nature-Based Tools for Burnout, Anxiety & Depression: For Personal Self-Care & Clinical Application
This one-day workshop provides mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals with the knowledge, skills, and firsthand experience to incorporate a wide variety of nature-based tools and mindful nature-based techniques into both personal self-care and professional practice.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and mental health clinicians (psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists).
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Review a wide variety of nature-based interventions (NBIs) for use with patients/clients
- Cite and describe evidence-based references about NBIs for psychoeducation teaching with patients/clients.
- Distinguish and describe how differing NBIs affect neuro pathways relevant to burnout, anxiety, and depressive disorders
- Develop and use nature-based interventions in client treatment plans, and with considerations for sustainability, client ability, access, and preference.
- Detect and validate client self-reporting of NBI effects and apply that in co-creating a sustainable NBI treatment plan aligned with client’s treatment goals.
- Evaluate NBI effectiveness through measurement tools and client self reporting.
- Reflect on your own nature relatedness.
- Demonstrate creating a NBI treatment plan aligned with the client’s treatment goals.
Additional Information
Mass General Brigham & New England Nature & Forest Therapy Consulting
| All sessions facilitated by Nadine Mazzola, CFTG, MAT | |
| 8:30am | Nature-Based Intervention (NBIs) & Practices and the Evidence Base |
| 9:10 | What are NBIs? / The Scope of NBIs - Part I |
| 9:50 | Experiential Session I |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 10:45 | Treatment Plans - Part I |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Experiential Session II |
| 1:40 | The Scope of NBIs - Part II |
| 2:05 | Treatment Plans - Part II |
| 3:05 | Break |
| 3:20 | Refining Treatment Plans and Risks & Limitations |
| 4:00 | Final Discussion / Q&A |
| 4:30pm | Adjournment |
Course Director & Speaker
Nadine Mazzola, CFTG, MAT
Director, New England Nature & Forest Therapy Consulting
Advisor & Senior Instructor, Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides and Programs
Educational Designer, Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides and Programs
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Mass General Brigham and New England Nature & Forest Therapy Consulting (NENFT). Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation Statements
AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Mass General Brigham is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Mass General Brigham maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 6.50 continuing education credit.
Psychology
6.50 Continuing Education (CE) credits awarded
Available Credit
- 6.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 6.50 Participation
- 6.50 Continuing Education (CE) for Psychologists