Learn to Support Others with Horticultural Therapy
Horticultural Therapy is the use of plants and gardens for rehabilitation and human healing. It promotes interaction between people, plants and gardens to improve social, emotional, cognitive and physical well-being. Horticultural Therapy may be beneficial in terms of healthcare, school, residential and in a rehabilitative setting. Horticultural therapy is often used as a form of group therapy, it can also foster socialisation skill, Patients with disability can benefit from horticultural therapy by simply working with plants in a natural setting.
This online course will take you through all aspects of providing horticultural therapy sessions from working with people with disabilities, mobility issues and more, risk management, growing things and creating a therapeutic garden as well as starting a business.
- self-paced study
- 100 hours
- 1-on-1 tutor support
This course is suitable for:
- therapists
- schools
- health care workers
- anyone involved with rehabilitation and with an interest in gardens and horticulture
There are 9 lessons in this course:
1. Scope and Nature of Horticultural Therapy
2. Understanding Disabilities and Communicating with people with disabilities
3. Risk Management
4. Accessibility and Activities for people with Mobility issues
5. Enabling the Disabled – with restricted motor skills
6. Producing Things – Vegetables, Propagation, Fruit, Herbs
7. Growing in Containers -Vertical gardens, pots, Hydroponics
8. Creating a Therapeutic Garden
9. Generating Income