ABOUT NEED FOR NATURE GROUP
NEED FOR NATURE GROUP is founded, built, and led with the purpose of facilitating Nature Connectedness for as many fellow human beings as possible. All niches and industries, at all societal and professional levels, have a need for nature connectedness.
In everything we offer, we strive to bring our customers, subcontractors, partners, and employees a deeper understanding of, and connection to, their inner and surrounding nature. Our aim is that their experience of Nature Connectedness is greater when they walk out the door than it was when they walked in to one of the group’s subsidiaries.
NEED FOR NATURE GROUP exists to respond to one of the most urgent calls of our time: to restore and rekindle the essential relationship between humans and nature. We believe that true health and well-being both individual and planetary—begin with connection. Connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the natural world that sustains all life.
An international act-tank for regenerative health, well-being, and healing – of humans and the planet, sought through strengthening human-nature connectedness. As a visionary act-tank, we do not simply think. We act. We create. We facilitate. We connect knowledge to experience, science to soul, and research to real life. Our work spans international borders, academic disciplines, and professional fields, always guided by a deep commitment to regenerative futures for people and planet alike.
A regenerative vision for the future that starts today
Our vision is broad and bold: to lead, facilitate, and participate in catalyzing a global culture where Nature Connectedness is not a luxury but a right, an intrinsic need, and a guiding principle for how we design our lives across education, health, business growth, and choices.
We aim to be a lighthouse for regenerative thinking in action, nurturing healing systems, transitioning to sustainable solutions, building resilient communities, and flourishing ecosystems amongst both humans and nature, one experience, one fellow human being, one partnership at a time.
We welcome you to join our mission, whether as a collaborator, client, learner, partner, or curious soul with an acknowledged need for nature.
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Meet founding CEO of NEED FOR NATURE GROUP: Tanya Uhnger Wünsche
Tanya – a visionary globally oriented deeply rooted Nature Connectedness Researcher and Facilitator who has introduced the field of Nature Connectedness across the Nordic Countries.
Niching down and starting slow has not been for us. We have built big, because the mission is big. Yet along the way made sure to remain patient and act respectfully towards all the foundational details, consciously curated business relationships, and choices needed to build a heartfelt and authentic, yet solid and regenerative company group.
Building big is a demanding process, and we are far from our end goal still, but looking back, also proud of what we have achieved so far, and we hope you would like to grow with us.
“I have always felt it – this deep intrinsic need for nature connectedness. Throughout my life I have felt it change in shape and form, slip away and come back with renewed force demanding that I attended it daily. My personal need for nature has shaped my individual career path, but also the path of the thousands of students, clients, guests, professional partners, and peers I have had the opportunity to encounter and affect throughout my life path” (Tanya Uhnger Wünsche)
Current roles
- Tanya is the head of board of the Danish Association for Outdoor Recreation professionals (Foreningen Dansk Friluftsliv).
- Tanya is the head of board of the Danish Association for Outdoor and Adventure Therapy (Foreningen for Udendörsterapi).
- Tanya and colleagues are in 2022-2028 leading the Entity and Organisations working group transforming the International Adventure Therapy Conference Network (ATIC) into the International Federation of Adventure and Nature Therapies (IFANT) to secure ongoing global work for cementing the nature-based therapeutic field as the go-to organization for human and planetarily ethical professional practice knowledge.
- Tanya and international colleagues are leading the Adventure Therapy Research Group of the International Adventure Therapy Conference Network (ATIC) aiming to gather and systematically make Adventure and Nature Therapy Research available for practicing therapy professionals, and policymakers.
- Tanya and international colleagues are leading the global working group for Nature Connectedness in the Social-Ecological Systems Society (SocSES).
- Tanya functions as an advisor for the Southern African Resilience Academy (SARA), Nature Connectedness working group.
- Furthermore, Tanya currently has censorship obligations with The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), The University of Copenhagen (KU) within the fields of Nature-based Education and Health Promotion Academia.
The NEED FOR NATURE HISTORY
- Idea and pilot version seeded in 2010 under the name BEHOV FOR SKOV (Need for forest).
- Years of Academic employment for founding CEO Tanya Uhnger Wünsche went by, with no real company development happening, yet the intrinsic need for nature connectedness always present.
- In 2019, the company was rebranded and came to live as NEED FOR NATURE to match a variety of nature types for our activities and an international audience
- In 2022, we expanded and divided into a subsidiary structure to hold our various activities and offers in a meaningful way with the respect and focus for each subsidiary. Some meant to grow steadily, some aimed at scaling rapidly as our surrounding environments need this immediately.
- In 2023, the NEED FOR NATURE MOVEMENT was founded as a not-for-profit community of likeminded individuals and organizations, offering global support for initiatives working to strengthen the human-nature relationship FOUNDATION
- From 2025 and onwards into the future we are aiming for a global presence, supporting the fulfillment of our company group mission and movement, saving our planet one nature connected fellow human being at a time.
- And we would love nothing more than to have you join us where, when, and how it supports your need for nature.
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Endorsements and testimonial experiences from working with
NEED FOR NATURE GROUP
“Feeling held and heard gained a whole new dimension when leaning into the forest for the support I felt drained for and maybe have been giving away from an empty jar myself lately. Thank you”
(NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY, nature-based peer-supervision, experienced by client psychologist Marianne Johansen)
“Tanya simply is THE GOAT of the Nordic Nature Connectedness field”
(CENTER FOR NATURE CONNECTEDNESS, keynote speak, ordered by KP Teaching College)
“We thoroughly enjoyed every minute of our workaway at the Refuge – it did not feel like a work weekend at all! And also, choosing to add the bonfire meals from your team just topped it all”
(NATURE THERAPEUTIC REFUGE, workaway retreat, visited by guest Nynne Nathanielsen)
“Thank you to Natalia, Siri, Anders, and Tanya for showing us the forest at night”
(NATIONAL PARK EXPERIENCES, corporate GOODNIGHT silent walk experience, visited by guest Dorte Samuelsen)
“Choosing to meet you in Ilulissat for our annual strategy event, was the best choice we ever made. The landscapes, the guides, the facilitators… everything was just perfection at the highest level“
(NEED FOR NATURE WILDERNESS TRAVEL, corporate retreat, visited by guest Jacob Marquardsen)
“Every time we are all seated in the dining area, we discuss how magical ice is. It sparks conversation in a room that used to be painfully silent“
(NEED FOR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY, ICE photo portfolio series, purchased by hospice manager Lisbeth Hansen).
