Background: The positive development of public health that has been ongoing for a long time is slowing down. It has been shown that the health benefits of nature and forests have significant potential, especially when it comes to promoting public health and preventing disease. Forest therapy can be aimed at all ages regardless of gender in a cost-effective manner. Why is forest therapy not used to a greater extent in social and health care despite this know-ledge? The study is carried out from a health-promoting perspective, where salutogenesis, sense of coherence (SOC) and health promoting settings is used as a theoretical frame of reference. This study is commissioned work by Sibbo municipality's social and health care. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to gain a greater understanding of how participants, during the years 2018 - 2020, experienced the Healthforest group activities in Sibbo municipality's social and health care services and whether this had an health promoting impact The questions for the study were: How do the participants think that the Healthforest group activities functioned as a health-promoting intervention? How would the participants develop the Healthforest group activities based on their experiences? Method: The study was qualitative with an inductive approach and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection. People over the age of 18 (N=23), with an average age of 60.9 years, participated in the study. The interviews were carried out 2 - 4 years after the participants had been part of the Healthforest group activities. Results: The content analysis resulted in three categories - nature interventions in social and health care services, seeing nature through new glasses and future health-promoting nature interventions, where the subcategories were important components. The importance of social and health care in conveying knowledge about nature's health-promoting effects increased the participants' sense of coherense. The results showed a demand for different types of nature-based interventions as complementary care, the Healthforest group activities was considered to be equivalent to exercise and medicine. The study offers individuals as well as decision-makers new perspectives to see the local nature as a health-promoting arena, which enables service development and cross-sectoral cooperation between social and health care centers and other health-promoting actors to promote the well-being of individuals and groups.