This workshop is an opportunity to tend to your own health and well-being AND earn CE credits!
Mindfulness In Nature
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, July 10th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Information: If you’d like to come the night before or stay over on Friday night after the workshop, you can explore the lodging options provided by the ONE Center here. For questions about lodging, please email the ONE Center at [email protected]
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $199.00
Come to ONE to explore and experience mindfulness in nature. This workshop is the confluence of mindfulness, cognitive-based therapy, and eco therapy, creating an innovative paradigm for providing holistic, client-centered care to support both client and clinician well-being. Come, learn about the Mindfulness Movement that continues to change lives worldwide by helping people wake up and discover new ways to live a more peaceful, joy-filled, and healthier life. This movement includes different clinical Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI’s) effective for helping people suffer less from insomnia, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, suicidality, and other painful conditions.
While psychological interventions are typically knowledge-based and directed toward client change, irrespective of the clinician’s health and well-being, Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI’s) are different. They require clinicians practice what they preach and teach from their practice. So, let’s practice mindfulness together at the beautiful ONE Center on the South Salish Sea just outside Olympia, WA. ONE is a beautiful and special place created specifically for health care providers. And this day of learning is designed to support your health and well-being WHILE earning continuing education credits too! This workshop is retreat-style, nature-based, and experiential. We’ll be walking slowly for short distances, pausing along the way in the forest and by the sea. This will allow participants to experience mindfulness by slowing down, pausing, and resting in moments of presence and awareness. This supports deep learning through connection with oneself, colleagues, and the natural world.
You’ll learn about the research-based benefits of integrating MBI’s in clinical practice and what makes them unique from other interventions. You’ll develop an understanding of the autonomic, sympathetic, and parasympathetic nervous system so you can explain to clients the mind/body relationship to chronic stress (CBT thinking errors), mental health conditions (depression/anxiety/panic attacks), somatic symptoms, and behavior patterns. Together, we’ll practice simple breathing techniques to activate the parasympathetic nervous system to facilitate somatic, cognitive, and emotional regulation. You’ll learn research-supported simple practices you can teach clients to support their health and well-being, while simultaneously supporting yours. In addition, we’ll explore questions including: What is mindfulness? What does it mean to BE mindful and to practice mindfulness? What’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation? What does research suggest about integrating mindfulness in mental health care?
We hope you come, explore, and experience mindfulness in nature through invitations from the beautiful land, gardens, forest, and waters of the South Salish Sea at The ONE Center.
Workshop Objectives:
In this workshop, you will
- Understand the benefits of integrating MBI’s in clinical practice and the necessity to teach from one’s lived experience.
- Learn what mindfulness is and how to develop a daily practice for yourself and your clients.
- Explore the language, concepts, and phenomena of mindfulness.
- Learn about the mind/body relationship between chronic stress (CBT Thinking Errors) and health (depression/anxiety/panic attacks), enabling you to explain the Autonomic, Sympathetic, and Parasympathetic Nervous System to clients.
- Practice various breathing techniques to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and facilitate emotional regulation.
- Learn formal and informal mindfulness practices for therapeutic use with clients (guided meditation, mindful walking, walking meditation, body scan, mindful eating, STOP method, etc.)
- Become familiar with how to explain the relationship between CBT thinking errors and mindfulness to provide more holistic care to clients.