Participants can expect to feel gently welcomed into a space where connection—both with others and with the natural world—is at the heart of the experience.

Session 1: This session offers a gentle, nature-based way for participants to reflect on and honor their birth stories by creating a simple “Birth House” using natural materials to represent meaningful people, moments, emotions, or sensations from their experience. Rooted in curiosity, choice, and non-judgment, this session provides a supportive space to acknowledge the transition into parenthood as a meaningful rite of passage, with optional sharing to foster connection and a sense of being witnessed.

Session 2: This session explores postpartum emotions such as anger, frustration, and overwhelm through a guided, nature-based “Inner Fire / Outer Flame” activity reflecting inner and outward experiences. Blending reflection with psychoeducation, it supports participants in understanding these emotions as normal responses to the pressures of parenthood within a compassionate, non-judgmental space.

Session 3: This session invites participants to reflect on the changes of early parenthood through a simple, nature-inspired mapping activity that explores coping strategies, challenges, and emerging sources of support. Integrating gentle psychoeducation on nervous system regulation, the session encourages understanding, adaptation, and grounding within a safe, supportive space.

Session 4: This final session explores how becoming a parent changes your sense of identity, using the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon to reflect on what is shifting, what is being left behind, and what is carried forward. Through simple nature-based activities and reflection, it includes gentle teaching on how the brain changes during this time (matrescence) and the wider pressures of care work, supporting participants to understand their experience, grow self-compassion, and feel more grounded in who they are becoming.