What is Common Ring Collective?
Common Ring Collective is a forest therapy practice rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and the understanding that humans are not separate from the natural world, we are part of it.
The work is guided by a simple truth: long before modern systems asked us to be productive, efficient, or constantly improving, we were held by land, seasons, and community. The forest has always been a place of refuge, regulation, and remembering. Forest therapy is not about escape; it is about return.
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Healing happens in relationship; relationship with place, with other living beings, and with ourselves. Just as trees grow in rings shaped by years of abundance and scarcity, human lives are layered with experience, memory, and change. Nothing is wasted. Everything leaves a mark.
Common Ring Collective approaches forest therapy as a relational practice rather than a clinical intervention. The aim is not to fix, diagnose, or optimize. Instead, intentional spaces are created where people can slow down, listen, and reconnect with their innate capacity for presence and belonging.
Together, we honor the forest not as a backdrop, but as an active participant, as the therapist.
The land offers co-regulation, perspective, and wisdom without demand. CRC’s role is to help people notice what is already available, to themselves and around them. -
Common Ring Collective offers guided forest therapy experiences for individuals and groups, grounded in evidence-informed nature connection practices and facilitated with care, consent, and inclusivity. Sessions are intentionally slow, accessible, and adaptable, meeting participants where they are, physically, emotionally, and energetically.
Each experience invites gentle sensory engagement, reflection, and relational presence. There is no expectation to hike, perform, or achieve. Silence is welcome. Movement is optional. Curiosity leads the way.
The guide holds space rather than direct outcomes, supporting participants in forming their own relationships with the land. What emerges is often subtle but profound: nervous systems settling, perspectives widening, and a renewed sense of connection to self, others, and the more-than-human world.
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Common Ring Collective is committed to accessibility, respect for land and lineage, and ongoing learning. We recognize that people come to nature carrying different histories, identities, and relationships with the outdoors.
Our practice centers choice, consent, and care, acknowledging that safety and belonging look different for everyone.We also hold reverence for the Indigenous peoples whose lands we walk upon and for the ancestral knowledge that informs nature-based practices across cultures and time.
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In a world that asks us to move faster and carry more, CRC offers something different: time, presence, and connection. An opportunity to step into the forest not to become someone new, but to remember who you already are.
Meet Benny
Founder & Forest Therapy Guide
My relationship with the forest didn’t begin as a profession, it began as a place to breathe. Like many people, I found myself carrying more than I had language for, moving through a world that rarely slows down or listens back. The woods became a place where I didn’t have to explain myself.
I could arrive as I was, and that was enough.
Over time, I began to notice something simple but profound: nothing in the forest rushes, and nothing is wasted. Trees grow in response to their conditions. Water finds its way by listening to the land. Stillness and movement coexist. Being in these spaces taught me that forward progress doesn’t come from force, it comes from listening.
That belief now guides my work. I am currently completing my certification with the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy (ANFT), and I approach forest therapy as a relational practice rather than a destination. My role is not to fix, instruct, or lead people toward an outcome, but to walk alongside them as they reconnect with themselves, the land, and each other.
At the heart of my practice is reciprocity, the understanding that healing flows both ways. When we care for ourselves, we show up differently for others. When we listen to the land, it offers regulation, perspective, and belonging in return. When we listen deeply, to nature and to one another, movement happens naturally.
I guide forest therapy experiences with humility, care, and curiosity, trusting that the forest already knows how to hold us.
My work is simply to help people remember how to listen again.
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