Testimonials
Ecotherapy for Organisations: Mind Jersey - 2025 -
In our busy organisation at Mind Jersey Chiara creates a monthly 90-minute calm, reflective environment. Her presence is warm and grounding, helping participants feel genuinely seen and heard. As a team we look forward to the sessions and value them as a supportive space for reflection and learning. Chiara is patient and attentive, holding a safe environment and allowing silence when needed so people can pause and reflect. This space has helped our team better understand the impact of our work in the field of mental health at the same time as understanding the impact on ourselves and our wider community.
Ecotherapy Team Day - The Sanctuary - Jersey - April 2026 -
Following our recent team day with Chiara, we’ve been reflecting on how this learning feeds into our day-to-day work. The steam day gave us space to think about systemic practice, recognising the wider environments and relationships that shape people’s experiences, and how this influences the way we provide support to individuals experiencing homelessness. Spending time outdoors exploring ecotherapy brought this to life in a practical way, and highlighted how access to nature plays important role in supporting mental health. Karis, Support Worker at Sanctuary Trust, reflected on the day:
"It's easy to forget how much the environment that we spend time in can affect our wellbeing and this training reminded me of how important it is to expose ourselves and the residents we support to nourishing natural environments."
Thank you again to Chiara for a really valuable day.
Ecotherapy Team Day - Mind - Jersey - April 2026 -
At the end of the team day staff of Mind Team in Jersey shared their feedback
Qigong Sessions in Nature
I’ve attended two of Chiara's Qigong practices in Nature as part of the ecosystemic training and both have been really beautiful experiences. They were quite different from one another, but both left me feeling energised in a way that I haven’t experienced with other similar practices (ie yoga)
I’m very new to Qigong, but I already feel that I’d like to find a way of bringing it into my daily life — I clearly need it! I particularly appreciated the pace of the sessions. They felt gentle and nurturing, while still leaving me feeling more energised and grounded afterwards.
I really had a sense that Chiara was holding everyone in the space in mind. There was something very attentive and thoughtful about the way the practices were guided by her which made it easy to settle in and be present.
Ecotherapy Group Programme 2023
I attended Chiara's Ecotherapy group programme at a time when I rarely left my house. The closed group made me feel safe. The whole programme of connecting with Nature, guided woodland walking & mindful nature inspired activities was wonderful on all my senses. I met beautiful souls in the group and felt it was a very enriching connecting calming experience unlike any other talking therapies I've participated in. Chiara has a warm, calm, engaging sacred space holding quality that touched everyone within the group.
Ecotherapy Group Programme 2024
I really enjoyed Chiara and Teresa's thoughtful approaches and insights to being in nature and the lovely connections within the group. Chiara encouraging us to feel the generosity and welcome that nature offers us all, and the gift of taking time to be still within it.
It was so nice to spend time in the beautiful woodland with the group- a special place which was new to me- and to savour all the sights and sounds within it.
Testimonials from our Ecotherapy Group Programme
