About

Forest

Forest Day Hart is a white, cisgender male, a partner, a stepfather, pet wrangler, and a person who finds peace beneath trees and beside rivers. Living in the Pacific Northwest, Forest carries a lifelong love for nature, quiet paths, and conversations that go beneath the surface. Walk With Hart isn’t just a name — it’s a commitment to walk this life with heart, humility, and purpose.

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Forest’s mission is to help restore balance in a world long shaped by disconnection, dominance, and systemic harm. As a white man, he recognizes that his identity is intertwined with a cultural lineage often associated with oppression, violence, and exclusion. Rather than distancing himself from that truth, Forest moves toward it — not in guilt, but in responsibility. He believes that real healing begins with accountability, and that it is not enough to passively “do no harm.” Healing the world, and the communities within it, requires white men to actively participate in repair, reflection, and transformation.

His commitment to healing the masculine has emerged directly through years of relationship, learning, and presence with people across diverse identities. These relationships have held up a mirror, showing how the traits of toxic masculinity — emotional repression, control, disconnection, domination — ripple outward and cause harm. Rather than retreat from this, Forest sees it as an invitation: to live into a form of masculinity rooted in tenderness, integrity, and relational strength. His work is to offer this as both example and space — especially to other men seeking a different way to be.

This mission is not separate from his work with other communities. In fact, they are one and the same. Forest believes in the interconnectedness of all beings — that beneath surface identity, we are not separate. And yet, we live in a world where identities matter. The pain many carry is not just personal, but cultural and systemic. To offer healing is to recognize both: the shared human ache and the specific ways it has been shaped by history.

Forest’s work is a gesture — one white man offering himself with humility, accountability, and heart. A place where people can bring their pain, their questions, and their longing. A space not just to explore the wounds inflicted by white male culture, but the deeper wounds of being human: disconnection, grief, shame, and the longing to be whole.

This work is grounded in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Forest affirms that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, sex workers, veterans, and people with disabilities have long endured systemic inequities and collective trauma. His intention is to offer culturally responsive, trauma-informed, client-centered care. When needed, that includes being a safe, listening presence for conversations about race, harm, identity, or the pain someone carries around white men. When appropriate, Forest makes space for those truths to be spoken — not to defend or explain, but to hold and witness.

Ultimately, Forest’s mission is to offer a place of steady presence in a chaotic world — a space where it’s possible to slow down, reconnect, and begin to remember what’s always been true: that we belong to ourselves, to each other, and to something deeper than any story we’ve been told.

This work is for those who feel called inward — whether by a whisper or a rupture.

Some arrive carrying the weight of grief, trauma, or persistent anxiety. Others come feeling disconnected from themselves or the world, unsure of who they are or where they’re going. This path may resonate with those navigating depression, loss, burnout, or spiritual longing — as well as those standing at a crossroads in life, unsure how to move forward.

It may also support those exploring questions of identity around gender, sexuality, and authentic self-expression — or those healing from shame, attachment wounds, or dissonance between the life they’ve built and the life that feels true. Many come simply seeking reconnection — with intuition, with nature, with the quiet knowing inside.

Much of Forest’s work centers around integration — not just of psychedelic experiences, but of the many parts of ourselves that have been forgotten, fractured, or exiled. He holds particular care for those exploring new expressions of masculinity: those who suspect there is a different way to be strong, to be present, to be tender.

This work is relational — built on trust, resonance, and mutual understanding. The first steps together are always exploratory. If it becomes clear that it’s not the right match, Forest will help each person find a guide or practitioner who is.

He offers sliding scale and pro bono access to individuals facing financial barriers and maintains a network of diverse facilitators for inclusive referrals.

Forest's path has been shaped by movement — both inner and outer. Having relocated over forty times in his life, he developed a deep appreciation for impermanence, adaptability, and quiet observation. In his early adulthood, he did a hodgepodge of many jobs ranging from welding, working on charter and commercial fishing boats, to providing technical support — experiences that deepened his appreciation for work that is both physical and relational. These early roles also taught him that he wasn’t on the right path. Disconnected from his own direction and frustrated by the limitations of working for others, Forest chose to carve out something of his own.

In his early twenties, he became an entrepreneur, his first being a cold brew coffee business and eventually shifting to building and running a web and software development company for over a decade. He made enough to support himself and the people close to him, but the work left him feeling unfulfilled.

Through years of study and personal practice in Taoism, Zen, human nature, and psychedelics, he began to unravel the subtle ways he had been living out of alignment with his true self. That unraveling eventually led him to spend a year living in solitude in the forest — a time of deep listening and honest reckoning. It was there, surrounded by silence and cedars, that Forest realized he needed to walk a different path entirely. That insight seeded the work he does now.

His background in martial arts, particularly I Liq Chuan and Wing Chun, has taught him how to listen through contact and meet force with clarity. He has both studied and taught martial arts over the years, integrating their lessons into every part of his life. He brings over ten years of personal experience working with psychedelics for healing and self-discovery, grounding his offerings in lived experience as much as training. Forest is also completing his training as a licensed massage therapist in fall 2025 and will be incorporating bodywork into his larger mission of somatic, spiritual, and psychological integration.

The name "Walk With Hart" carries two layers. First, it is an invitation to walk with heart — with courage, softness, and presence. To approach healing not as a task to complete but as a path to walk with openness and humility.

Second, the word "Hart" refers to the old English word for a stag — a powerful symbol in many Western European and Scandinavian traditions. The stag is a creature of thresholds and quiet strength, often appearing at moments of transition in old stories. It dwells in the liminal space between seen and unseen, solitude and community, forest and field. In this work, the stag represents the call back to the natural world, to the wild intuition we often silence, and to the steady, listening presence we can learn to embody.

To walk with Hart is to walk with both — the heart that feels and the hart that knows when to step, when to pause, and how to listen deeply to the world within and around us.