Amos Clifford is the founder of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs and author of the best selling Your Guide to Forest Bathing (Conari Press 2018). Amos founded ANFT in 2012 and began offering training for guides in 2014. He is inspired by the question, "What can be done to build authentic relationships between as many people as possible with the more-than-human world." He is the primary designer of the Standard Sequence of Forest Therapy taught globally by ANFT and other forest therapy training organizations. Amos holds a BS in Organization Development and an MA in Counseling from the University of San Francisco.