Groundswell Surf Therapy™trainings

Groundswell Surf Therapy ™ trainings were co created by Natalie Small LMFT and community clinicians, surf coaches, healers, and non-profit community development leaders. Each training is facilitated by Natalie and trained clinicians and experts in the field with the goal of providing you a deeper understanding of trauma’s effects on the brain, body, community, and earth and how Surf Therapy can be a powerful tool for transformation, liberation, and recovery. Through embodied learning; each training portal will provide you with the recording of the live training along with Groundswell copyrighted curriculums, worksheets, and tools to support you in providing safer and braver trauma informed spaces for your local community. At the completion of the training you will receive the Groundswell Surf Therapy TM stamp to have on your website and social medias to celebrate your commitment to trauma informed surf therapy spaces, along with certificate of completion and the opportunity to get CEU’s through California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Surf Therapy For Trauma Recovery (Level 1)

For therapists, students, surf coaches, ocean lovers, and the curious; this course utilizes experiential embodied learning to explore the somatic therapy definition of trauma and its effects on the brain, body, and community. We discover how surfing mother ocean’s waves can be a powerful therapeutic healing modality for the individual and community. This training will mainly focus on somatic therapeutic modalities, not on surf lessons.

Surf Therapy Volunteer Training

For those volunteering with or working in organizations that create equitable access to the outdoors. Learn the psycho-ed of how to identify triggers in others and ourselves. Discover how nature, our bodies, and community can provide tools for building a safe and brave space so all can reclaim their healing, power, and belonging in the great outdoors together.

Sand & Sea Community Drop in Curriculum Training

Groundswell Sand & Sea Circles were built as an inclusive community development curriculum to welcome individuals and their families to deepen their relationship with their bodies, mother ocean, and community as we de-stigmatize mental health. In completing this training you will have access to the Groundswell Sand & Sea Curriculum© and resources to be able to provide these community based programs at your local beaches.

Surf Therapy for Grief

Communities have been coming together in, on, and around Mother Ocean to honor their grief for centuries. Groundswell Surf Therapy for Grief curriculum was built to de-stigmatize grief and to deepen community bonds to be seen heard, and honored as you paddle out into the constantly shifting waves of grief together. In completing this training you will have access to the Groundswell Surf Therapy for Grief Curriculum© and resources built in partnership with Tracey Chester (LMFT) of the San Diego Pain and Trauma Institute so to be able to provide these community based programs at your local beaches.