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Chris Garcia posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
Hello Katrina,
I believe that the SF Botanical Garden offers a Certificate Program. You can follow this link to get in contact with the program (http://caahta.org/education.htm). I’m not familiar with this particular course, but having spent some time with Teresia Hazen’s class at Legacy Health in Portland, HT is a rewarding and enriching…[Read more] -
Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
Welcome, Chris and Marina! Chris, can’t wait to see your photos – will you post them here? Would also be happy to share on the TLDBlog, or elsewhere and of course we’ll want to add any sites to the Database that aren’t already there.
And Marina, tell us more about the conference, it sounds fascinating. I wonder if we can get trascripts, or if…[Read more]
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Marina Butorac posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
Hi!
I just came from a conference in Dubrovnik about resocialization with help of nature. Theme was therapeutic gardens, horticultural therapy, landscapes with healing essences – my special reasarch theme. There was also guest from Washington University in Seattle, Daniel Winterbottom, great work in therapeutic landscape architecture. So, hear you…[Read more] -
sandra costa posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
Thanks Naomi!
I found this healing gardens in United Kingdom.
http://www.westleydesign.co.uk/what-we-do/healing.html -
Chris Garcia posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
I have finally found a home! Hello group! Clare Cooper Marcus helped send me on a journey to thirteen therapeutic gardens and I hope to share my pictures and resources with everyone. We have an incredible honor as both landscape architects and care givers and the more we collaborate and share our work and research, the better care we’ll give to…[Read more]
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
p.s. Sandra, if you find other gardens that aren’t on the TLD, please let me know and I’ll add them – that goes for anywhere, including Portugal. We are always expanding our database.
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sandra costa posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 6 months ago
hello everyone!
Does anyone knows examples of hospital’s therapeutic gardens in Canada?
thanks
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 7 months ago
Latest TLDBlog post is on medicinal herbs in the healing garden: http://tldb.blogspot.com.
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 7 months ago
Catinca, her name is Sheila Taft, and she’s probably in the Seattle, Washington area. Maybe worth looking her up?
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 7 months ago
Catinca, here’s an interview with a horticultural therapist about therapeutic gardens with some mention of the importance of scent. Alas, no text and so no reference of the evidence she refers to, but if you can catch her name, maybe you can contact her. And please, share what you learn with us!…[Read more]
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Brian Kent posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 8 months ago
Hi folks,
A sculptor/psychologist friend has formed a non profit that aims to assist mentally and physically wounded veterans reintegrate into society through counciling and education. That’s her empathetic altruistic side at work; her creative artistic side wants to collaborate on the creation of a healing place that incorporates art and…[Read more] -
Catinca posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 8 months ago
hello, nice to join the group! I’m doing a research about the synergic perception of landscape and I have some problems finding resources about the psychological effects of plant perfumes, and in general about the olfactive perception. Can anybody help me? Greetings, Catinca
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Emily Daniel posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 8 months ago
Hello Everyone! I’m going to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens for a conference on Horticultural Therapy in April and it will be the first hort. therapy conference that I’ve ever been to. I was wondering if anyone in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee…knows of any other seminars or meetings that are going on in our area and what other organizations or…[Read more]
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Ralene posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 8 months ago
Hi Naomi, I am currently doing my masters in Landscape Architecture in South Africa, I am still decising on a theme for my thesis but I am very interested in environmental psychology and the relationship between mental health and nature/the outdoor environment. I want to work at a psiachiatric hospital. It looks like you are familiar with the…[Read more]
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 9 months ago
See today’s blog post for a conference on therapeutic environments in the UK in May, and also scroll down for info on a campaign by the American Cancer Society, early-spring bloomers to brighten the healing garden, and a review of an excellent movie, The Garden: http://tldb.blogspot.com/.
Welcome new members – feel free to post comments or start…[Read more]
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Nathalie Huot posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 9 months ago
Hello Everyone, here’s what these plants can do in an office! Impressive! Check out this link and let me know what you think! http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/10/david-pogues-ted2009.html
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 9 months ago
Cool! ASLA just added a new professional practice network, Children & Outdoor Environments: http://land.asla.org/2009/0210/new_ppn.html.
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 9 months ago
Looking for a job in healthcare design? See today’s post, “Letter to a young landscape architecture student (looking for a career in healthcare design)” http://tldb.blogspot.com/.
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 10 months ago
Welcome new members! If any of you are students and are in need of a simple project, the TLN is looking for someone to document how many of the 155 teaching hospitals in the U.S. have therapeutic landscapes or some other type of restorative outdoor space. Anyone interested? Could become a great thesis…
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Naomi Sachs, ASLA, EDAC posted an update in the group Therapeutic Landscapes Network 15 years, 10 months ago
Great, Devin! Be sure to share your findings with us, and I will post anything new to the Therapeutic Landscapes Database.
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