Designing a Healing Garden

Designing a Healing Garden
with Nina Shippen
Tuesday, July 7  |  9:30 – 11:30am
BREG – Elective
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Healing gardens, therapeutic gardens, forest bathing – terms that were once considered fringe ideas for alternative medicine are now accepted practices. This class applies the findings and theoretical frameworks used by researchers to create our own restorative gardens.
What does research show about the effect of nature on human physiology? What characteristics do healing gardens have that other gardens or landscapes may not? How can we create restorative settings on our own properties?
Nina Shippen practices residential landscape and garden design through her company Hidden Road Landscape Design, which focuses on coupling the principles of healing gardens with sound ecologic practices to create satisfying gardens for her clients. A graduate of the landscape design program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, she has lived and gardened in Transylvania County since 2005. Nina was a member of the first class in Chicago Botanic Garden’s Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program. She has applied the principles of healing gardens to her own practice since 2003.

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