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 December 10!
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. When you RSVP, we’ll send you our FREE worksheets to introduce you to the 4Rs!
VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
11 am PT, 12 pm MT, 1 pm CT, 2 pm ET
PROTECTORS: Program Formats
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Free Resources + 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
FEBRUARY - SEPTEMBER 2026
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. -
Immersive Certification Experience
AUGUST 28–SEPTEMBER 3, 2026 // Yellowstone National Park
A dedicated program for Indigenous communities and public lands employees/partners. This track integrates cultural knowledge, stewardship practices, and reciprocity-based care in support of the people who protect our most sacred spaces.
🌿 Donate to the Protectors fund to support this program.
Featuring: Sydney Williams, Barry Williams, and [ANNOUNCED AT OPEN HOUSE]