| Course | Healing Betrayal: A 12-Week Course Focused on Restoring Sexual Intimacy Through Nature Therapy |
| Audience | This course was designed for individuals, couples, or relationship partners at any stage of the betrayal recovery process looking to heal from emotional, sexual, internet, or a combination of betrayals. This course integrates seamlessly with weekly sessions for therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals by providing individuals or relationship partners with valuable tools, weekly interventions, and somatic/cognitive prompts to work through the recovery process more effectively. |
| Course objective | Through evidenced-based effective nature therapy techniques, course participants will receive approximately 3 hours of weekly content in a flexible and portable manner. The course is entirely self-paced and immersive. Participants will receive nature therapy interventions and infidelity healing coursework to help manage and decrease intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulation, negative core schemas, ambivalence, hypervigilance, and hyperawareness, as well as increase empathy, forgiveness, and improve mindfulness for greater intimacy, connection, and restoration of sexual desire. Participants can complete the last two weeks through the in-person weekend retreat option or all 12 weeks through the online virtual format. |
| Time Commitment | Approximately 3 hours a week |
| Learning outcomes | By completing this course, participants will: – Decrease intrusive thoughts, rumination, and dissociation; reduce anger flooding; challenge negative core schemas; reduce ambivalence, hyper-vigilance, and hyperawareness. Effectively process and manage symptoms related to grief and loss of the assumptive world. – Gain a greater understanding of factors that may have led to the betrayal. Practice accountability, improve communication, and establish new agreements for transparency and self-love based on secure attachments, including individual and relationship goals for the future. – Increase empathy, forgiveness, and mindfulness for greater connection, acceptance, and restoration of intimacy and sexual desire. Create or co-create the blueprint for a more mindful relationship with self and partner/s going forward. |
| Modules | Phase I: Stabilization (four weeks). Weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4 are provided in a virtual, online format and entirely self-paced. Phase II: Understanding (four weeks). Weeks 5, 6, 7, and 8 are provided in a virtual format, online, and entirely self-paced. Phase III: Rebuilding Weeks 9, 10, 11, and 12 are provided in a virtual format, online, and entirely self-paced (four weeks) for participants who choose to continue the course through the virtual format included with the online course option. For participants that chose the in-person option: Weeks 9-10 are delivered through the virtual format, online, and entirely self-paced (two weeks). Course content for weeks 11-12 is provided through the intensive in-person weekend retreat Friday-Sunday. |
