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Mother Nature: Our New Therapist for Mind, Body and Soul

When: 
June 15, 2020 10 p.m. to June 16, 2020 9:45 p.m.
Where: 

Online Class

 

This three-session online course meets June 15, 22, and 29 from 6-7 p.m.

In this world of social distancing and self-quarantine, we’ve come to recognize the significance of relationship— with each other, our environment and our personal living spaces. In this three-class series, get back to your roots and cultivate the tools offered to us by Mother Nature for stress management, mindfulness and restoration. Guided by Anne Meore LMSW and Registered Horticultural Therapist, in this three-session class you will journey to re-discover the therapeutic relationship that exists between ourselves and the natural world around us.

Anne Meore LMSW, HTR is the Garden Projects Coordinator for Bon Secours Charity Health System in Suffern, NY and designs and manages therapeutic garden spaces and conducts horticultural therapy programming at Good Samaritan Hospital. She holds an advanced degree in guidance counseling and social work, a license in social work, and a certificate in horticultural therapy from the New York Botanical Garden. Anne is a Registered Horticultural Therapist with the American Horticultural Therapy Association and serves as the Horticultural Therapy Program Coordinator for Therapeutic Horticulture and Rehabilitative Intervention for Veteran Engagement (THRIVE). She is also the program advisor and a faculty member in the Horticultural Therapy Certificate Program in the School of Horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and has been an instructor in their Edible Academy since 2011. Anne also serves as adjunct faculty in the Biology Department at Manhattanville College and is the owner of Planthropy LLC, serving populations with special needs through horticulture therapy programming and therapeutic garden design.


Advance registration is highly recommended.

 

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