{"id":9051,"date":"2020-06-20T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T06:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hex.webmatic.be\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2022-05-27T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:23:12","slug":"terra-therapeutica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/verhalen\/terra-therapeutica\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terra Therapeutica was born from a passion for people and nature.
\nHow can we use gardens, nature and greenery as a means to improve the wellbeing and health of people with additional needs?<\/p>\n

We are thinking here primarily of groups within the healthcare and social sectors who, often as a result of their physical limitation, or their psychological or social condition, have lost contact with greenery and natural elements.<\/p>\n

Through study days, training sessions, graduation projects and company visits, Terra-Therapeutica and its partners are trying to bring about change in this area.<\/p>\n

In various countries, the medium of the garden has long been used to therapeutically guide vulnerable groups towards better health and well-being through gardening and experiencing greenery. Great Britain is a frontrunner when it comes to horticultural therapy. The organisation Thrive, with its social and therapeutic horticulture<\/em> is already well established in healthcare.<\/p>\n

In Flanders, Terra Therapeutica is taking the lead in introducing horticultural therapy and therapeutic gardening into healthcare. Key partners in this endeavour are the PXL university college for green management and PXL occupational therapy in Limburg, and the local psychiatric hospital group Asster.<\/p>\n

Since spring 2018, two patient groups from Asster hospital have been gardening weekly in the vegetable garden at Hex as part of their healing or resocialisation process.<\/p>\n

In the week of 9 to 14 September 2019, ten occupational therapy students undertook a summer school<\/em> dedicated to horticultural therapy and its applications for different groups.<\/p>\n

The students worked together for a day in the vegetable garden at Hex, under the guidance of the gardeners and graduates of PXL Horticulture, and learned more about the basic skills of vegetable gardening. Through a simulation, they were also given the opportunity to experience what it is like to garden with a disability, and how to deal with it creatively...<\/p>\n

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More info about horticultural therapy and therapeutic gardening on the website of \u00a0terra-therapeutica.be\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Meet Thrive (UK) \u00a0www.thrive.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Terra Therapeutica is ontstaan uit een passie voor mens en natuur. Hoe kunnen we tuin, natuur en groen inzetten als middel om het welzijn en de gezondheid van mensen met een bijzondere nood te verbeteren? We denken hierbij vooral aan groepen binnen de zorg- en de sociale sector die vaak ten gevolge hun fysieke beperking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[252],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tuin-therapie-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24618,"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions\/24618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hex.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}