To Nature, Our Bodies & Community
Welcome Home:
Who We Are
Groundswell Institute thrives to provide safer and braver spaces for both individuals, the community, and practitioners to dive into deeper relationship with our body, nature, and community. We do this through clinical therapy, trainings, retreats, and workshops. We were birthed through the listenings and learnings of the Surf Therapy non-profit, Groundswell Community Project in order to increase sustainable access to the medicines of our body, nature, and community. We honor the intersection between mental health, earth health, and collective health and look forward to being in circle with you at the sea, our coastal office, or in the virtual space from the comfort of your home.
“You are not a drop in the sea, but the entire ocean in one drop” - Rumi
And just like the sea, you have everything you need for healing, creating, and transforming already within you!
Groundswell Surf Therapy™ Clinic
Our team is stoked to meet you where you are at in your journey to reclaiming your relationship with your body, nature, and community. We walk (or paddle) alongside you as you tackle fears, anxieties, or barriers, and transform trauma to discover your own wisdom and strength. Our licensed mental health practitioners are leaders, innovators, and researchers in the surf therapy field and come from a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, and expertise providing the highest standard of care from the comfort of your home to the wild waves of the sea.
Book a free 15-minute consult call to learn more and get started!
Groundswell Surf Therapy™ Trainings
Since 2018, Groundswell Surf Therapy ™ trainings have welcomed over 700 clinicians, students, surf coaches, community leaders, ocean lovers, wave dancers, and the curious that are committed to exploring a deeper understanding of the intersection between ocean health, mental health, and community health through the trauma informed practice of “Surf Therapy”. Our trainings & workshops continue the work and development of Groundswell Community Project, the first organization to provide certified Surf Therapy Trainings accredited by a therapy association, CAMFT. We continue to grow, develop, and research their trauma informed, eco-based, nature-based, art-based & community-based surf therapy modality and provide embodied in person, virtual, and recorded trainings that have been sought after around the globe.
*All our trainings are co-facilitated by licensed clinicians and experts in the field and provide CAMFT accredited CEUs
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IN PERSON Level 1 training: July
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Surf Therapy For Trauma Recovery - Level 1
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Surf Therapy Facilitator Training - Level 2
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Sand & Sea
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Surf Therapy Volunteer Training
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Surf Therapy For Grief
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Surf Therapy & EMDR w/ Meg Martin
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Waterways Relaxation App w/ Alisa Adams LPCC
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Becoming A Wave Dancer w/ Imani Wilmot
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Surfing Moms w/ Amelia Borofsky, Phd
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Surf Therapy And Chronic Pain w/ Tracey Chester
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Moving With Grief w/ J’amie Morrison
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Understanding Sex Trafficking w/ Susan Munsey
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Somatics For Grief Work w/ Sarah Knapp
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Deconstructing Success w/ Sally Harris
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Identity Is Relational w/ Rook Cambell
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Exploring Our Relationship with Money w/ Natalie Small, LMFT
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Power Of Touch w/ Tess Kelly
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Surf Therapy For And By BIPOC Community
Opening Access
We strive to provide equal access to trauma-informed care and Surf Therapy spaces through diverse leadership, development, and facilitation within our team and our global trainings. By investing in you and your healing and/or leadership development, we are also investing in the healing of the collective and the earth.
Groundswell Community Project (5013c) believes that the healing benefits of surf therapy should be the right to all! Thanks to donor support, they provide scholarship access to surf therapy offerings and training around the world.
