Therapeutic Horticulture: Spring Elective Package

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NYBG's Therapeutic Horticulture Certificate Program enables you to create experiences that utilize plants, gardening, and nature to empower individuals and groups whose lives have been affected by illnesses, injuries, disabilities, and life circumstances to achieve improvements in their cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

This spring, complete the required elective course hours for the Certificate in three weeks' time! These three elective courses—Therapeutic Horticulture: Focus on Dementia, Developing Cultural Humility for Therapeutic Programs, and Therapeutic Horticulture: Focus on Spirituality—are planned in close sequence allowing you to be one step closer to completing your Therapeutic Horticulture Certificate. You have the option to register for this package at a savings or sign up for the classes individually.

Prerequisite for all three elective courses: Introduction to Therapeutic Horticulture

Therapeutic Horticulture: Focus on Dementia
ONLINE: Monday, 3/31, 6-8 pm; IN-PERSON: Saturday, 4/5, 10 am-2:30 pm

Create meaningful connections for people living with Alzheimer's and/or dementia and their care partners, while providing environments and opportunities to support their natural abilities and initiative. Learn methods and manners to ease anxiety, de-stigmatize the diagnosis, and ultimately create moments of joy that humanize and spread compassionate understanding through the biophilic power of plants and nature.

Developing Cultural Humility for Therapeutic Programs
ONLINE: Tuesday, 4/29, 6-8 pm; IN-PERSON: Saturday, 5/3, 10 am-2:30 pm

Therapeutic horticulture recognizes and honors the culture and identity of our participants and communities. Develop your ability to be appropriately responsive to groups that share a common background such ethnicity, religion, race, language, gender identity, disability, neurodivergence, and more. The biodiversity of the natural world provides for rich exploration and meaningful connections. Create models within your programming that celebrate diversity, promote inclusion, enhance equity and center on accessibility. Note: This course requires pre-work, which will be sent to you by the instructor upon registration.

Therapeutic Horticulture: Focus on Spirituality
ONLINE: Wednesday, 5/7, 6-8pm; ONSITE: Saturday, 5/10, 10 am-2:30 pm

Nature has spiritual benefits that are often overlooked in therapeutic horticulture programming. In this course, you'll examine how the historical, cultural, and metaphorical significance of plants can inspire deep and meaningful connections for participants in all types of life circumstances. Explore firsthand how nature can add a new dimension to your practice from a spiritual perspective.

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Schedule:	ONLINE: Monday, 3/31, Tuesday, 4/29 & Wednesday, 5/7, 6-8pm; ONSITE: Saturday, 4/5, 5/3 & 5/10, 10am-2:30pm
	Only 13 days left to register!
Times:	10:00am-08:00pm EDT
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Meeting Date Start Time End Time Monday, March 31, 2025 06:00pm 08:00pm Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:00am 02:30pm Tuesday, April 29, 2025 06:00pm 08:00pm Saturday, May 3, 2025 10:00am 02:30pm Wednesday, May 7, 2025 06:00pm 08:00pm Saturday, May 10, 2025 10:00am 02:30pm Meeting Date Start Time End Time Monday, March 31, 2025 06:00pm 08:00pm Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:00am 02:30pm Tuesday, April 29, 2025 06:00pm 08:00pm Saturday, May 3, 2025 10:00am 02:30pm Wednesday, May 7, 2025 06:00pm 08:00pm Saturday, May 10, 2025 10:00am 02:30pm
Instructor:	Fred Ellman Fred Ellman Fred Ellman Fred Ellman is a horticultural therapy instructor and meditation teacher. He has a certificate in Horticultural Therapy from the New York Botanic Gardens and a certificate in Contemplative Buddhist Psychotherapy from the Nalanda Institute in Manhattan. His background includes, working as an architect, children's garden designer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, exhibition design for children's museums throughout North America, and for 30 years as partner in a family toy inventing business. He currently works in multiple care-communities in the tri-state area. His work focuses primarily on seniors with dementia, both over zoom and in person using horticultural therapy and meditation experiences/activities/modalities. He enjoys creating classes using the natural symbiotic partnership of horticulture activities and meditation. He blends Therapeutic Horticulture, whenever possible, with the Buddhist foundational tenets of Joy, Compassion, Loving Kindness, and Equanimity in connecting with seniors. His work is also greatly informed by the study of Montessori for Dementia, and he has developed activities and environments utilizing the power and simplicity of the Montessori approach. Renee Reopell Renee Reopell Renee Reopell No biographical information available Trey Wilson Trey Wilson Trey Wilson Edward "Trey" Wilson DDS, received his certification in Horticultural Therapy and Landscape Design from The New York Botanic Garden. He was previously a dentist in Manhattan for thirty seven years, specializing in dental phobia, prior to starting his business Trey Gardens, LLC. Trey Gardens, LLC combines all of Trey's work and life experience. His mission is to deepen our connection to nature through therapeutic garden design in order to enhance personal and community health and well-being across all domains. He is also certified as a forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) and as a spiritual director through General Theological Seminary. Trey is the second recipient of the CNN hero Award for his many years of missionary dentistry in Africa and Haiti.
Location:	Some sessions meet online & some at NYBG,
Session Number:	253THP441BL
Price:	Price Non-Member : $699.00 Member : $602.00
Prerequisite(s):	Introduction to Therapeutic Horticulture

By signing up for this course, you acknowledge that you have successfully completed the necessary prerequisite(s).

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