Abstract
"Nature and occupation are mutually related, and can have therapeutic effects as the occupational therapy." This is my own experience as a mountain guide, based on four and a half months of interrelated rehabilitation between the care of an occupational therapist in the hospital and my own training in nature.
The occupational therapist not only provided treatment, but also continued to ask why I wanted to get better, and I also went into mountains and worked independently for my own rehabilitation, forgetting my physical pain in natural scenery. Furthermore, I actively went to the hospital to get better, and the occupational therapist encouraged my efforts. I clearly recognized a positive therapeutic cycle there.
I would like to organize this experience as a mechanism and methodology under the theme of "therapeutic intervention utilizing the characteristics of nature in occupational therapy", and make it useful to society. If occupational therapy, as a therapeutic method, "starts with finding what kind of occupation will be therapeutic for the person", then this is a new attempt that can only be advanced by collaboration between occupational therapists and mountain guides who are skilled in natural activities such as mountaineering, trekking and hiking.
