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An Introduction to Nature-based therapies in Australia and NewZealand
If you are social isolating/distancing and avoiding going out due to the threat of this virus, and missing Nature, you are not alone. In fact we are all alone together, the whole world. I hope you are able to get into a garden, your own or someone who needs help. Its a great place to
”however vast the darkness, we must supply our own light” stanley kubrick Since the fires, my eco-anxiety has been acting up. Not just mine; never have I felt the collective sense of it, so strong, in Australia. Stories are emerging, from the clean up, as we count the losses, and put down mercifully, the injured
Clarence Slockee of ABC’s Gardening Australia, and co-founder of Yerrabingin, (sang and danced the book “Nature Heals” into the world, in a most unique and profound launching on April 12. He is also the co-founder of Yerrabingin, the first Indigenous permaculture rooftop garden, “interweaving Indigenous tacit knowledge and collaborative design thinking.” from thier website, “Yerrabingin
We were delighted at the response to Nature Heals by attendees at the bi-annual Australian Occupational Therapy Association conference; our book is now in the hands of staff in various departments and libraries at both Deakin and Monash Universities, as well as the Wicking Institute, an affiliate of the University of Tasmania. Our perseverance is
An invitation to launch Nature Heals in NZ, at the Adventure Therapy Collective Aotearoa’s Conference in the Waitakere Ranges Auckland, May 3 was a delight! Much gratitude to this Amy Horn from Adventure Specialties Trust, who hosted/MC’ed so beautifully. It was an enthusiastic crowd as Adventure Therapists tend to be! Most refreshing to spend some
Nature in Dementia Care We have been receiving such positive feedback from our book. Now in various states of Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, India, The Netherlands and Italy. A recent story from Australia includes a lady who is using it in caring for her husband who lives with Alzheimer’s. Each day she
Nature Heals Book was launched on a beautiful Autumn April afternoon in the Hawkesbury… Our heartfelt thanks to Aunty Carol for her beautiful Welcome to Country; to Clarence Slockee for sharing a smoking ceremony and to officially launch Nature Heals… “rather than a bottle of champagne his beautiful choice was Aboriginal song and dance in
“I had accompanied my husband to a local beach where he was going fishing. There was a mountain of seaweed that had been washed up, and I just set about making a ‘piece’ of beach art. As I was doing this, a group of three people walked past and one of the women stopped and
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