Founded by London’s leading nature and wellbeing practitioner, Nature as Nurture programmes are rooted in proven health and wellbeing practices and incorporate the latest scientific research. Sessions and workshops draw on founder Claire de Boursac’s extensive experience of working with therapy clients navigating stress, anxiety and life’s challenges. She also brings 10 years of experience guiding people into deeper relationship with themselves through connecting with nature.

Our pioneering work is widely recognised and has been featured in a variety of publications from Red magazine to the Evening Standard. 

We regularly work with Fortune 500 companies incorporating the healing power of nature into powerful workplace wellbeing programmes which bring long term physical and mental health benefits to employees.

Claire de Boursac

Leading Nature-Wellbeing Practitioner |Nature-Connection Guide | Psychotherapist

Passionate about bringing the incredible healing power of nature to Londoners.

Those four days in the hills of Gourdon with the tender guidance of Allison from OMindfulness left me feeling profoundly refreshed and rejuvenated.  What’s more, this feeling lasted many weeks after my return to busy London life. 

I knew I wanted to provide ways for others to experience this regularly and close to home.  As well as drawing on nature to support recovery from stress and overwhelm, I wanted to provide restorative sessions that would help prevent these states. On return from France I contacted the Parkland Walk, a local nature reserve I’d been visiting for years and started offering meditation walks for their members.  My 20 years meditating fed into the nature-based trainings.

What I witnessed and what participants fed back to me was a profound improvement in stress and health.  However, they were experiencing something else, something deeper which was less named in the research but powerfully transformative. Spending time in nature gave people a different understanding of themselves and their place in the world. A sense of peace in the throes of bereavement, an new acceptance of their own ageing and mortality while embracing the beauty of the bare winter landscape or the recognition of their individual nature and importance through spending time with a seemingly unremarkable tree. This mirrored my own experiences in nature and resonated with the teachings I’ve received in many years of personal shamanic practice and various traditions of meditation. I was uniquely positioned to weave together the two threads of work, nature connection and therapy, and offer an experience that was relaxing, nourishing and transformative.

Therapy clients and people attending Nature as Nurture sessions often speak of their stress associated with work so it was natural to take these programmes into workplaces.  It’s where we invest a lot of our time and energy after all.  It’s been wonderfully encouraging to see companies of all sizes and sectors embrace these programmes to support meaningful and lasting benefits to their teams.  I’m committed to being part of a change in workplace culture and feel such warmth when they come back to me long after the sessions to share how employees are still using the techniques and maintaining lower levels of anxiety, better sleep and more healthy and conscious use of their devices.

Nature as Nurture programmes uniquely combine these learnings and offer an open and non-prescriptive way to connect with self and nature.  Each individual can engage at whichever level is right for them in that moment, whether that is to simply to slow down and receive the gift of relaxation or to dive deeply into a new way of knowing. 

Everything starts as a small seed and I’m thrilled that Nature as Nurture has grown into a leading nature-infused wellbeing provider, making real and tangible my dream of this wonderful and hectic city being home to a healthy, happy population who enjoy the beauty of its green and blue spaces.   

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