Webinar: Crafting Solo Retreat Experiences for Yourself & Clients

Have you ever longed for time just for you—off-grid, off-script, and deeply nourishing?

In this heartfelt and practical webinar, Katie Asmus is joined by Somerville Johnson and Lisa Kennemur for a rich conversation about how to craft personally meaningful, soul-nourishing solo retreats—whether you're a therapist, guide, healer, or simply someone in need of space to reconnect with yourself.

In this conversation, we explore

🌿Why solo time is essential for nervous system regulation, clarity, creativity, and healing
🌿 How to create your own solo retreat—whether it’s 5 minutes or 5 days 🌿The importance of structure, ceremony, and intention-setting
🌿Personal stories of transformative solo experiences in nature and everyday life
🌿 How to make solo time accessible, safe, and realistic for your current life
🌿Tips for incorporating solo time into your personal life or therapeutic work with clients
🌿 How severance, support, and integration help anchor the experience in lasting change

Whether you're preparing for a wilderness quest, taking a solo walk through your neighborhood, or booking a night in a quiet cabin—this conversation invites you to slow down, listen within, and make space for your own unfolding.

About Your Facilitators

With over 3 decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching,and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, the founder of the Somatic Nature Therapy Institute, is an expert facilitator and educator on nature-based therapeutic interventions.

Katie started her career as an instructor for Outward Bound and after becoming a clinician, began training outdoor educators and facilitators how to identify and address trauma and panic responses among students on wilderness trips.

Katie also has had a 25-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and teaching graduate-level wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at Naropa University and Prescott College.

She is a skilled facilitator, educator, speaker, and therapist who has trained practitioners internationally in somatic and nature-based interventions for working with trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation with a strong emphasis on parts work. Katie also focuses on incorporating ceremony and rites of passage into healing work in order to honor life transitions. She has developed a number of professional trainings for helping professionals in these areas, has presented internationally for over 25 years, published a variety of writings, and has been a frequent guest on podcasts and as a speaker in international communities. She is passionate about sharing the many ways nature connection can be woven into the therapeutic process and empowering practitioners to lean into the inherent wisdom of the natural world.