How much do you know about yourself? Are you looking to feel more grounded and connected with your heart? Do you want to be positively tuned in your daily life?

By connecting to the present moment, grounding establishes a solid foundation that enables you to remain focused and calm while alleviating fears and anxieties linked to past traumas or future concerns. This allows you to fully embrace the ‘here and now’. With an open heart, participants nurture self-awareness and empathy for themselves and others. This not only lightens the body but also soothes the mind and boosts emotional well-being.

Incorporating positive thinking, in alignment with the Law of Attraction, empowers participants to tackle challenges by choosing optimistic responses. This approach helps strengthen neural pathways and foster lasting change, allowing you to recognise the good in every situation.

This transformative journey will guide you in enhancing your grounding, deepening your heart connection, and discovering inner harmony, making it easier to navigate the challenges of daily life.

Workshop Activities
The experiential activities* in this workshop provide an opportunity for participants to explore and practice the following aspects:

• Exercises on grounding and anchoring, leading to stability of body, mind and spirit
• Exercises on deepening our connection with our heart
• Deepening of the connection with one’s intuition
• Practising positive thinking
• Connecting with nature and its qualities supporting us
• Guided meditations and contemplations on nature

*Note: the workshop’s agenda and contents may be modified depending on weather conditions, and other external factors, in accordance with Dr Claire Elouard’s professional advice.

If you wish to join a different level or prefer another workshop duration, click the relevant link below,

• Introductory｜1-day Workshop
• Level One｜5-day Residential Workshop
• Level Two｜3-day Residential Workshop
• Level Three｜3-day Residential Workshop
• Breathing with Tree｜A Breathwork Event with Claire Elouard and Andrew McAulay
• Outreach Workshop｜Experience the Healing Power of Trees

Teacher

Claire Elouard Claire is of French nationality; she spent her early childhood in Senegal, Africa, and later studied in France. She has a master’s degree in biology and a PhD in vegetal ecology from universities in France. She conducted her field research for her PhD in Indonesia, and afterward spent eight years doing research in forest pathology and ecology in Malaysia and south India. Subsequently, she directed an environmental project in the Mumbai area of India, from 2001 to 2015. She is now developing her workshops on ‘Energy of Nature’. Claire Elouard has been deeply connected with nature since childhood. She later developed her perception of nature’s energy and deepened it by learning about the Hindu philosophy on the five elements and their corresponding chakras. She has been teaching people to communicate with nature and perceive its energy since 2004 in India, France, Belgium, Singapore, Malaysia, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan.

Date 
18 - 19 October 2025 (Saturday to Sunday)

Time
Each day from 9:30am to 5pm (Non-residential)

Venue
Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

Language
English

Target Audience
Aged 18 years and above

Capacity
Maximum 20 participants

Fee
Early bird price: HK$2,400 per person 
Regular price: HK$3,000 per person 
Including admission fees, guided and facilitated sessions and activities, vegetarian meals each day.

Please note that this is a non-residential workshop. The workshop fee does not include accommodation. However, we encourage participants to stay overnight at the Green Hub in Tai Po during the programme to maximise the benefits of the experience. For reservation, please click and register HERE.

Notes

• Please note that this is an experiential workshop. Participants are required to participate fully in all exercises to ensure progression.
• To ensure the quality of the workshop for all participants, KFBG reserves the right to select participants for this workshop, if we feel necessary. For unsuccessful applications a full refund will be arranged by bank transfer or cheque within one month.  
• Payment is not refundable after acceptance, unless the workshop is cancelled by KFBG due to inclement weather, under-enrolment or any other reason.

Application
Early bird discount: Click HERE to apply on or before 30 September2025.
Regular price: Click HERE to apply on or before 15 October 2025.

Feedback from previous participants

• ‘It deepens and widens my connection with nature, and I have learnt so much about trees. Also, I am so glad to meet the teacher and amazing people in this programme.’

• ‘The workshop delivered beyond my expectation. I was able to proactively connect with nature and evolved. The exercise learnt can also be practised at home to further develop. Thank you, Claire, for her sharing.’

• ‘I got my energy recharged. I felt good to have [a] refresher day and be with all the tree-loving buddies’

•  ‘Very positive. Eye-opening. Very rare HK has this sort of workshop to teach how to connect to nature.’

• ‘Brilliantly organised. I love everything about the experience. To KFBG, thank you for putting together an exciting programme and every small, well-managed matter. To Claire, you know how much I have gained and I need not say more – thank you from the heart!’

• ‘The programme was well-designed and rich. Thank you, Claire, for the gathering. It helped me strengthen and refine my intuition and learn to slow down to perceive and feel more.’

Enquiry
Contact Ms Holly Ho at 2483 7111 / Ms Joanna Li at 2483 7112 during office hours or email holly.ho@kfbg.org.

Related Links

• Kadoorie Earth Programme (KEP) is an initiative co-created by KFBG and its network of collaborators and volunteers. By integrating the various strands of KFBG’s nature conservation, sustainable living and holistic education programmes, it provides life-transforming learning experiences that reconnect people with themselves, each other and the rest of nature and enable them to cultivate resilience in the face of global challenges.

• Nature Art Programmes: Immerse yourself in silent contemplation of nature. Deepen your awareness of beauty and connect with nature through art. KFBG organises a variety of art workshops including Zentangle drawing, sketching and wood art, and exhibitions to guide participants, with or without artistic background, to create nature art.

• Nature Education Programmes: Become animal detectives and explore the mysteries of wild animals. Use different senses to discover the beauty of plants. Learn about the significance of forest, trees and even soils through field visits, experiments and woodwork, to reconnect with nature.

• Group Guided Tours: Led by trained environmental interpreters, the content includes experiential and hands-on activities. We encourage a passion for nature, conservation and ecology by nurturing an appreciation of the natural world.
  
• Corporate Programmes: Our Holistic Education Department staff can design either half-day or full-day nature education and art programmes for corporate staff or their family members based on specific needs. Leveraging the unique natural landscape and cultural ambiance of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, our activities may include guided tours, farm-to-table experiences, nature-based workshops, talks and art activities, aiming to promote understanding and practice of sustainable living for organisations.