Hello! My name is Khloe, I am a human being and forest therapy guide

Hello!

A little letter from my heart to yours

Dear Human being,

Thank you for visiting Slow Forest Days. It is by no coincidence you have dropped by. You are curious and wants to find out more about forest therapy, rest and slowing down.

Slow Forest Days was founded in 2021/2022. Like you, I was curious and wanted to know how to feel better. I experienced burnout.

Forest therapy is a way of life for me, it is a journey of me coming back home to my heart and my body. Slow Forest Days is unlike any other businesses; everything is slow and honours the way of a guide and aligns with my heart. It is heart-based and very much relational.

I took a year or two to have my logo beautifully done by Dorcas Tang, It encapsulates the essence of forest therapy and our relationships with self-others-nature. The uneven strokes - are also intended as we embrace our own imperfections and stop chasing after perfection.

There is another way to live - one where we are here, right here with our hearts and body, one where there is no need to hurry, one where there is space to rest.

Let us re-member - that we are human beings and we dont need to earn rest.

Love’

Khloe

Silhouette of a tree with abstract branches and roots, featuring two people sitting inside

“Our heart-based “Relational Forest Therapy™” approach focuses on rebuilding relationships with the More-Than-Human World as a foundation for healing people and planet.”

— Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT)

Person meditating outdoors in front of a large tree, sitting cross-legged on grass with fallen leaves, hands on chest, eyes closed.

About Your Guide

Khloe has worked as an educator in a local tertiary institution curating local and overseas Service-Learning experiences and holding spaces for students to learn and grow. She always felt that she never really knew what are the “real needs” on the ground and decide to then join the Social Services Sector.

Within the sector, she has worked with youth, family, caregivers and seniors - planting seeds of mental well-being practices and designing volunteer journeys. She believes firmly in up-stream work and works closely with the social services sector today, holding spaces for both the practitioners and other human beings to slow down and rest.

She is also an associate instructor of Japanese Pastel Nagomi Art certified by Japan Pastel Hope Art Association (JPHAA) and often weaves in art in the experiences she designs. Khloe is currently under-going training to become a yoga nidra teacher and aspires to design more restful experiences ahead.

ANFT Certified Guide logo including the full name: Association of Nature & Forest Therapy Guides & Programs, with a design of green branches.

Khloe is certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT).

A Forest Therapy Guide works with the forest as a partner. The guide is not a therapist; the forest is the therapist. Guides help others open the doors of their senses and heartfelt presence, so they can enter completely into a healing relationship with the forest and other places in the more-than-human world. (Excerpt from ANFT website)

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“There is a different way to live, one where we choose to unlearn what the world has taught us so far and go slower. This process of unlearning is also us coming home to ourselves - the real us. It takes courage to do so and we can do so both alone and together”

— Khloe