Saturday • April 12 • 9am-12:30pm
CONNECTING WITH NATURE FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Join us Saturday, April 12, for this year’s symposium and discover how immersing yourself in nature can provide powerful therapeutic benefits! We’ll introduce the Japanese art of forest bathing (shinrin-yoku), and share how to create spaces that incorporate features and sensory plant types to inspire meditation and reflection. Additionally, we’ll discuss adaptive tools and techniques that help make gardening easier as we age, and best practices homeowners can apply in their own landscapes.
After the symposium, “add-on” a forest bathing experience with a certified Forest Therapy Guide to cleanse your mind, body, and spirit! This somatic practice is part of a global effort to address the stress of modern industrialized living. The guided sequence of forest bathing will combine moments of rest and wandering interspersed with group and individual time. Emphasizing unplugging, slowing down, and awakening all your senses, this immersive session invites you to be fully present in the moment.
Speakers include:
–Maureen Stine, Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Natureology and author of Grass Left Standing: A Park Interpreter’s Road Map to Forest Bathing
–Joe Lansing, Franklin County Master Gardener, Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens
–Laura Akgerman, MA, CRC, Disability Services Coordinator, Ohio AgrAbility/OSU Extension
Cost:
$65 Non-member, Symposium only
$50 Member, Symposium only
Registration includes symposium, morning refreshments and admission to Kingwood Center Gardens.
OR, purchase a ticket for the morning Symposium and stay for the afternoon with a discounted add-on program experience, Introduction to Forest Bathing, from 1-2:30pm:
$80 Non-member, Symposium + Workshop
$65 Member, Symposium + Workshop