About

About Soft Pine Wellness

Soft Pine Wellness was created in 2021 by Wil Brunner. The company is registered to conduct nature therapy and guiding experiences in Nova Scotia. Liability insurance is in place and Wil has Wilderness First Aid training for the safety of everyone involved.

Wil facilitates all of the offerings. He shares many years of wilderness-based mental health and addictions counselling and mindfulness facilitation together with an academic and professional ecology and conservation background. Completing his Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guide certification in 2021, Wil has formally lead nature wellness to over a hundred Nova Scotian adults and youth and friends and families.

All the activities are trauma informed, oriented from a sense of safety, collaboration, empowerment and warmth and are born out of the mission statement and core values and beliefs below.

Mission Statement
I, Wil Brunner, will strive support people in discovering, exploring and growing their personal connections to nature. I wish to see an abundance and variety of people engaging with nature in unique ways and feel my authentic self, care for others and intimacy with nature evolve as I guide. I will use concepts of equality, inclusivity and reciprocity in all that I do,

Core Values & Beliefs

Physical and emotional safety is the always the top priority;
Indigenous culture must be honoured;
Empathy, sharing and boundaries are respected;
Each persons unique experience and actions are valid and important;
Bodily and felt senses are doorways to connection with the world outside ourselves;
Nature has a way of mirroring or physically representing abstract concepts and ideas;
Mindfulness, or openly paying attention to the present moment, is a tool for growth;
And community, reciprocity and care with local environments and people is essential to our culture and the planet.

Forest Bathing Information Poster (high resolution PDF)