TABLE 1.
1. General questions | ||
• How often have you had therapy sessions while walking outside in nature? | ||
∘ And how often have you had therapy sessions indoors? | ||
• How did you get to the decision to choose a treatment where you would receive therapy while walking outside in nature? | ||
∘ Or, if your therapist suggested this context for treatment, what did you think of this suggestion? | ||
∘ What did you expect of the sessions in nature beforehand? | ||
• How does/did your therapist incorporate nature in the sessions? | ||
2. Suggestions for questions during the Imagination | ||
Please close your eyes or look at a neutral point in front of you. Just take a few deep breaths in and out…… Try to imagine again that you are in a session, walking alongside your therapist outside in nature. Do you see it in front of you again? | ||
• What do you see/hear/smell? | ||
• What is happening? | ||
• What are you discussing? | ||
• What are you doing? | ||
• What role does nature play in this experience? | ||
• What is going on inside of you? | ||
• How do you feel/how does that feel? | ||
• How do you notice that? | ||
• What do you feel in your body? | ||
• What does this do with you? | ||
• What about nature makes it so? | ||
• What about that moves you? | ||
• What does that mean for you (as a person)? | ||
3. Follow-up discussion after the imagination | ||
• To what extent was what you just experienced about the role of nature something typical of any session outside? | ||
∘ To what extent do you think the element of nature influences what you get out of therapy? | ||
• What would be different if this session had not happened in nature, but inside a consulting room? |
The underlined questions were the central questions which gave most insight into the inner world experiences of clients.