“Abide with Me: Nature and Forest Therapy for Self-Care, Healing, and Spiritual Renewal”
Presented by: Liz Diener, PhD, RN
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Description: Discover the healing power of nature through a virtual forest bathing experience designed specifically for faith community nurses. This session explores how mindful connection with the natural world can foster spiritual comfort, enhance emotional well-being, and support stress relief through practices in the more-than-human world.
Bio: Dr. Liz Diener has been a RN for more than 50 years and currently is core PhD faculty at Walden University. Her long-time interest in the spiritual resources of healing, integrative health, and other modalities relates to her interest in faith community nursing. She has training as a Caritas coach at Watson’s Caring Science Institute, certified SoulCollage facilitator, and a Level 1 qualification in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. She completed the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) training and earned a Lifetime certificate in 2023. Her clinical practice includes hospice and palliative care.
Learning outcomes:
1. Describe 2 principles and potential benefits of forest bathing as a meditative practice for stress reduction and holistic healing.
2. Discuss 2 approaches for integrating nature-based spiritual practices into faith community ministry.
Disclosure:
Approval Statement: This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Learner Outcomes: Upon completion, the learner will be able to:
1. Describe 2 principles and potential benefits of forest bathing as a meditative practice for stress reduction and holistic healing.
2. Discuss 2 approaches for integrating nature-based spiritual practices into faith community ministry.
Criteria for successful completion: The participant must attend all of the activity and complete the self-evaluation and post-test at 75%.
Relevant financial relationship: This educational activity does not include any content that relates to the products and/or services of an ineligible company with whom there is a financial relationship.
Commercial support: There is no commercial support being received for this event.
Expiration date: September 25, 2025 to September 24, 2027.
Registration: CNE 1.0 ANCC contact hours.
You have 10 days to complete the video and submit the evaluation for 1.0 ANCC contact hour.
$20 for Members; $40 for Nonmembers
Register: www.fcninternational.org
