If you are within reach of Exeter Ian is currently available for the following:

Individual environmental arts therapy. Fortnightly two hour sessions in woodland locations on the edge of Exeter.

The Lionheart men's group. One evening a month in a woodland location on the edge of Exeter.

If you would like to work with Ian in your area then you may wish to consider these instead:
Environmental arts therapy workshops
These workshops are shaped by the month that they are run in, the location and the materials that it offers. Any wild and natural location is adequate, including woodland, moorland, beaches, meadows, even gardens if extensive enough. Access to shelter in case of rain and a source of heating in the colder months is helpful.

Consultancy
Ian is employed by Devon Partnership Trust to run the Wild Things project for users of the Recovery and independent living (mental health) service in Exeter. This project offers a programme of environmental arts therapy and outward bound activity in wild and beautiful locations throughout Devon and beyond. It has proven to be highly effective and extremely popular, especially with young men (a client group  that traditional services have consistently struggled to engage). If you wish, Ian can assist you in setting up a similar service in your area.

 Research
Ian is interested in opportunities to research the following:

The Circle of trees is based on the Celtic Ogham tree calendar, an indigenous system of reference that applies to the Celtic lands, their traditions, their trees and their seasons. Ian would welcome the opportunity to research other indigenous systems that relate to other lands. This would require a period of time spent in that country working as an environmental arts therapist with local people in their own natural locations as well as time to study the mythology and ecology of the area.

Having worked for many years with metaphors relating to trees Ian would welcome the opportunity to explore therapeutic encounters with animals and would love to hear from anyone already working in this field. Ian is beginning to develop this practise as part  of the Wild Things programme and would welcome the chance to work alongside practitioners in other countries.

How do you or your organisation work therapeutically with Nature? Ian would love to hear about different forms of practise all over the world.