Who We Are

Lorraine Trowers

After experiencing her own personal healing through time out in nature, Lorraine founded The Place Outside CIC initially supporting women in recovery from trauma based addiction.

Lorraine studied Ecopsychology with The Natural Academy for 4 years, before bringing her learning to The Place Outside CIC. The sessions support people in their enquiry into how nature can support mental health and wellbeing through a deeper understanding of their reciprocal relationship with the natural environment. This re-membering self back fosters a sense of belonging not just to ourself but with each other and to the other than human community of which we belong.

Lorraine enjoys being out on the land. She enjoys supporting people in their own journey back to their nature relationship, witnessing the joy and transformation that can unfold when people come together in their shared experience of nature connectedness. She also enjoys singing, which can sometimes be heard during the group sessions.

As well as facilitating groups, Lorraine also supports people through Ecotherapeutic 1:1 therapy.The Natural Self model (Natural Self Ecotherapy) explores with a trauma informed approach, our innate wholeness, to welcome back our parts that are no longer serving us. The parts that may be holding us back or keeping us small . We are met with healing and recovery when we can welcome all our parts back in with compassion, which is explored through NSET sessions.

Lorraine qualified as an Ecotherapist , after studying Ecopsychology/ Ecotherapeutic Practice with the Natural Academy

Get in touch with Lorraine directly if you would like further information about 1:1 therapy

Call: 07791 070893

https://www.naturalacademy.org/practitioners/

Alice Goodenough: an environmental educator and researcher. She is interested in how people’s relationships with natural space contribute to their health and well-being. She coordinated the Good from Woods scheme in partnership with Plymouth University and recently researched girl’s perceptions of forestry, for the Timber Girls project. She qualified as a Forest School teacher in 2015.

Alison Cockcroft is an artist and community arts practitioner. Her art practise explores relationship, including the human relationship to nature. She is drawn to natural and outdoor settings as spaces that provide a rich sensory and immersive experience in which to explore creativity and connection. Alison works with an awareness of the Five Ways to Nature Well-Being framework by gently guiding participants with activities that encourage looking and noticing, emotional responses and empathy. Art based practises of looking, recording and making, support participants to deepen their knowing of a place and to build a relationship with it. Art processes also support the making of meaning by engaging people with imaginative speculation, narrative, metaphor and ritual. Any methods and art materials used are environmentally sensitive and the emphasis is on experience and process rather than specific outcomes.

Katie Rowan has led groups of children, teens and adults in nature and land based education for over 10 years. Training as a forest school leader in 2005 she went on to deliver transformational land based programmes for four years at Embercombe in Devon and more recently spent three years as a therapeutic educator at Ruskin Mill college in Gloucestershire. Katie works as a mentor for teenage girls in her local community witnessing the challenges faced by young women as they navigate the adolescent journey and the immense power and potential held in this stage of life.