Description
A Nature-Based Approach to Parenting!
This June, parents have a unique opportunity to deepen their connection with their children through a creative, nature-based approach. The upcoming Ecoplay Parenting Group is an eight-week online experience designed to help you build stronger relationships, reduce stress, and bring more meaning and play into family life. Grounded in the principles of the Ecoplay Workbook by Charlton Hall, this group offers a refreshing alternative to traditional parenting programs.
What Is the Ecoplay Parenting Group?
The Ecoplay Parenting Group is a weekly online gathering held over eight weeks, beginning in June. Each session focuses on practical, experiential ways to engage your child using nature-based play and mindfulness. Rather than focusing solely on behavior management, this group invites you to explore connection as the foundation for growth.
You’ll meet once per week in a supportive, guided environment where you can:
- Learn new ecotherapy-based parenting strategies
- Reflect on your experiences with your child
- Share insights and challenges with other parents
- Develop practical tools you can immediately apply at home
This is not a lecture-based course. It is an interactive, reflective experience designed to help you integrate new skills into your daily life.
Why Ecoplay?
Children are naturally drawn to play and exploration, especially in natural settings. However, modern life often limits those opportunities. Ecoplay restores this essential connection by blending mindfulness, nature, and play into everyday parenting.
Through Ecoplay, you learn to:
- Use nature as a calming and regulating influence
- Encourage creativity and emotional expression in your child
- Build secure attachment through shared experiences
- Shift from control-based parenting to connection-based parenting
The result is not just improved behavior—it’s a deeper, more trusting relationship between you and your child.
What You’ll Learn Over Eight Weeks
Each week of the Ecoplay Parenting Group introduces a new theme and set of practices drawn from the Ecoplay Workbook. While the experience is flexible and responsive to the group, core areas include:
Week 1: Introduction to Ecoplay You begin by learning how mindfulness can help you become more present with your child, creating a foundation for all other skills.
Week 2: Compassion You explore how outdoor environments can support emotional regulation and compassion and reduce stress for both you and your child.
Week 3: Communication You learn to understand play as a form of communication and connection rather than just entertainment.
Week 4: Control You discover ways to help your child express feelings safely and to learn emotional regulation through nature-based activities.
Week 5: Choices You explore how natural challenges, like weather, terrain, and change, can teach adaptability and confidence, leading you and your child to make better choices.
Week 6: Consequences You practice listening and responding with intention, strengthening trust and understanding, and linking choices to consequences in positive ways in nature.
Week 7: Consistency You develop simple, repeatable practices that bring consistency and connection to your family life.
Week 8: Confidence You reflect on your progress and create a plan to continue using Ecoplay principles beyond the group, increasing both your confidence and your child’s.
Benefits for You and Your Child
Participating in the Ecoplay Parenting Group can lead to meaningful, lasting changes:
- Reduced stress and overwhelm for parents
- Improved emotional regulation for children
- Stronger parent-child attachment
- Increased creativity and engagement in daily life
- More joy and playfulness in your relationship
Because the group is online, you can participate from anywhere while still engaging in activities that encourage time outdoors between sessions.
Who This Group Is For
This group is ideal if you:
- Feel disconnected or overwhelmed in your parenting
- Want to reduce conflict and increase cooperation
- Are interested in mindfulness or nature-based approaches
- Are looking for practical, meaningful ways to connect with your child
No prior experience with mindfulness or ecotherapy is required. All you need is a willingness to explore and engage.
A Different Kind of Parenting Support
Many parenting programs focus on correcting behavior. The Ecoplay Parenting Group takes a different approach. It starts with the understanding that connection is the foundation of all effective parenting.
By integrating mindfulness and nature into your daily interactions, you create space for growth that feels natural rather than forced. You begin to see your child not as a problem to solve, but as a relationship to nurture.
Join the Ecoplay Parenting Group This June
If you’re ready to bring more connection, calm, and creativity into your parenting, the Ecoplay Parenting Group offers a structured yet flexible path forward. Over eight weeks, you’ll gain tools, insights, and support that extend far beyond the group’s duration.
This June, step into a new way of parenting that invites you and your child to grow together through play, presence, and the healing power of nature.
Ecoplay Parenting Group Pricing & Enrollment
The Ecoplay Parenting Group is an 8-week online experiential program based on the Ecoplay Workbook by Charlton Hall. If you enroll in the course, YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE THE WORKBOOK SEPARATELY. A PDF copy of the workbook will be included in the course materials. This group integrates mindfulness, nature-based practices, and practical parenting strategies to help you strengthen your relationship with your child, reduce stress in the home, and support emotional development through play, presence, and connection.
Standard Enrollment – $450
Includes:
- Full 8-week Ecoplay Parenting Group
- Weekly 60-minute live online sessions
- Complete Ecoplay Workbook-based curriculum
- Structured weekly practices and reflections
- Facilitated group discussion and support through our discussion forum
- Integration exercises for use between sessions
What You Are Investing In
The Ecoplay Parenting Group is an experiential, practice-based program designed to support real change in how you relate to your child in daily life.
Across 8 weeks, you will learn how to:
- Use mindfulness to remain grounded during parenting challenges
- Engage your child through nature-based play and exploration
- Support emotional regulation in both yourself and your child
- Shift from control-based patterns to connection-based communication
- Build consistent, meaningful family rituals rooted in presence
Is This Group Right for You?
This program may be a good fit if you:
- Want to reduce stress and conflict in your home
- Feel disconnected from your child and want to rebuild the connection
- Are interested in mindfulness or nature-based approaches to parenting
- Prefer experiential learning over purely informational content
- Want practical tools you can use immediately in daily life
No prior experience with mindfulness or ecotherapy is required.
How to Join
The Ecoplay Parenting Group begins in June and meets once per week for 8 consecutive weeks in a live online format.
Space is limited to maintain group interaction and quality. To join, you will need access to Zoom. You will be sent a group link approximately one week before the first session on June 2, 2026, at 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
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