Welcome, Protectors!
For Protectors: Reciprocity Rx™
You’re on the frontlines of tending land and community—often with too few resources and too much to carry.
After completing the Reciprocity Rx™ Certification, you’ll be able to:
Bring nature-based care into visitor experiences, staff support, and community engagement—without burning out.
Create space for reflection, storytelling, and connection in the landscapes you protect.
Model and encourage acts of reciprocity that invite healing with the land, not just on it.
Support inclusive, welcoming events that prioritize relationship over performance.
Join a community of practitioners integrating stewardship, wellness, and equity into how we care for land and people.
Because your work matters—and you deserve to feel supported, connected, and rooted in the process.
READY TO LEARN MORE?
You’re invited to our Virtual Open House on January 14!
Join Sydney Williams, author of Hiking Your Feelings and founder of Hiking My Feelings + Wellness in the Wilderness, as well as our guest experts and Program Advisors for an introduction to Reciprocity Rx™ for Protectors and Pathfinders.
VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
4pm PT, 5pm MT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET
PROTECTORS: Program Formats
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Community + Free Toolkit
In the toolkit, you’ll find a growing library of practical, place-based resources rooted in the 4Rs Framework—Receive, Reflect, Return, Reconnect—to help you integrate reciprocity into your care practices, interpretive work, or community engagement. Whether you’re just beginning to explore nature-based care or seeking new ways to deepen relational healing in your programs and policies, you’ll find tools to bring reciprocity into your sessions, fieldwork, or systems—on your timeline, in your own way.
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Online Certification Program
Build your foundation in nature-based care. The Reciprocity Rx™ Foundations program combines evidence-informed curriculum, community dialogue, and guided reflection to help you reconnect with your purpose and bring reciprocity into your professional practice from anywhere in the world.