PROMOTING HEALTH FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
Light Box trains the next generation of forest therapy practitioners, grounded in published medical research and over 350 graduates across the UK and beyond.
We provide professional Forest Therapy Practitioner Training, therapeutic coaching and nature-connection sessions — built Churchill Fellowship research into eco-therapeutic practice, and ongoing work with the University of Bristol's Psychiatry department.
We are a social enterprise. Every profit from our training programmes is reinvested into promoting mental health management and recovery in community settings.
Backed by genuine research, not borrowed language.
🏅 Co-director Lucy Duggan is a Wellcome Trust Fellow and holds a Churchill Fellowship, awarded for international research into eco-therapeutic approaches to mental health, undertaken in Japan and the United States alongside field leaders including Qing Li and Amos Clifford
📖 Our research into nature-based interventions for postnatal mental health is published in the British Medical Journal, developed in ongoing partnership with the University of Bristol's Psychiatry department
🎓 Over 350 people trained as accredited Forest Therapy Practitioners through our 16-week programme
⭐ 98% of our graduates would recommend the training to others considering this path
✔️ CMA Registered College and CPD Approved Provider (#788168), supporting professional insurance and formal recognition
This is what sets a Light Box qualification apart: a curriculum written by people actively engaged in the research, not simply citing it.
Why Practitioners and Organisations Trust Light Box
EXPERT TRAINING & COACHING
With over 25 years of combined coaching and training experience between us, and a training curriculum developed by published researchers in the field of nature-based health.
FOREST THERAPY PRACTITIONER TRAINING
A 16-week certification programme, trusted by over 350 graduates.
A growing international community of practitioners committed to bridging the gap between humans and nature, using a structured, evidence-based approach grounded in published medical research.
If you're exploring how to become a Forest Therapy Practitioner, this is training built by people who have done the research themselves — not simply taught it.
THE HUMAN NATURE PROJECT
Connecting people with the healing power of nature to promote mental health management and recovery in Bristol — delivering free Forest Therapy sessions led by our qualified graduates.
RESEARCH & IMPACT
We are research-led, not research-inspired. Forest therapy is often described as evidence-based. At Light Box, that's not a marketing phrase — it's how our curriculum was built.
Our training draws directly on:
International fieldwork undertaken by co-director Lucy Duggan during her Churchill Fellowship, studying eco-therapeutic approaches in Japan and the United States
Ongoing research into nature-based interventions for postnatal mental health, conducted in partnership with the University of Bristol's Psychiatry department and published in the British Medical Journal
The growing international evidence base linking time in nature to measurable improvements in cortisol levels, immune function and mental health outcomes
Every module in our 16-week programme is grounded in this research — explored through neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, biochemistry and philosophy, rather than taught as isolated technique.
