2025 Online Course in Horticulture as Therapy
Why take this course?
- It provides an international approach to studying how nature is used as a therapeutic tool for enriching the lives of others through people and plant relationships.
- Mitchell Hewson is a pioneer with extensive clinical and horticultural knowledge who will guide you through this training using nature and the humanities to develop your skills as a therapist and horticulturalist.
- It offers a curriculum that provides you with an understanding of mental illness, assessments, program dynamics, therapeutic environments, healing plants, creative arts and adjunctive therapies.
- It is a course that guides you towards a career in horticultural therapy.
- Through the use of living materials - flowering plants, fruits, vegetables and herbs - Horticultural therapy stimulates thought, exercised the body and encourages an awareness of the external environment. Moreover, people with mental health issues that have benefitted from this type of therapy, report a renewed desire to live, decreased anxiety or stress, and improved self-esteem.
(an excerpt from Horticulture as Therapy, by Mitchell Hewson)
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Canadian residents 2025 registration package (Comes with sample pages and syllabus)
International Students 2025 registration package
(Comes with sample pages and syllabus)
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The Horticulture As Therapy online course is committed to supporting the mission, vision, beliefs, of Horticultural Therapy in Practice and adhering to the Code of Ethics of the Canadian, British (THRIVE) and American Horticultural Therapy Associations.
Horticulture As Therapy's Duty is to acknowledge and honour all students who seek the knowledge to celebrate natures healing powers through plant-people relationships, including persons of all sexual orientations, identities, races, abilities, ages and talents.
