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Healthcare Garden Design Certificate of Merit Program
May 15 – 22, 2013
This eight-day program includes case studies, group projects, field trips, lectures, and instruction from experts from healthcare garden-related professions. Working in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design, your learning will be reinforced through tours of healthcare facilities in greater Chicago.
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 ABOUT THE PROGRAM (mp3) The Chicago Botanic Garden's Healthcare Garden |
Healthcare garden design is an emerging area of specialization in which several professions converge to create environments of care. In this professional development program, attendees will discover the many ways gardens provide verifiable health benefits for their patients, staff, and visitors. The multidisciplinary program introduces the latest research in healthcare garden design, demonstrating the benefits of healthcare gardens while providing participants with the expertise, knowledge, and tools to effectively design, manage, and evaluate such gardens. These garden environments of care maximize the effectiveness of clinical treatments for illness and disabilities, and create passive garden experiences that significantly reduce staff stress and absenteeism, improve patient health, increase client satisfaction, and strengthen the bottom line.
PROGRAM DESIGN
This program will meet for eight days in May 2013. The session includes lectures, group projects, case studies, and field trips. Experts from the healthcare garden-related professions provide program instruction. You will work in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design, and your learning will be reinforced through tours of healthcare facilities in greater Chicago.
PROGRAM CONTENT
The program begins with a special full-day seminar on "Gardens That Heal: A Prescription for Wellness," designed as a starting point for those participating in the full program, and as an introduction for professionals not requiring full certification.
Day One Agenda: Gardens That Heal Seminar For more information on the 8 day program contact certificateprogram@chicagobotanic.org |
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8:30 a.m. |
Registration and Coffee Fairchild Room |
9 a.m. |
Opening Remarks Alsdorf Auditorium |
9:15 – 10:15 a.m. |
Stephen Kellert Biophilia, biophilic design, and healing |
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. |
Clare Cooper Marcus A history of outdoor space in hospitals, recent evaluative research on healing gardens, and precedents drawn upon by designers of healing gardens, including medical diagnoses. |
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. |
Lunch Burnstein Flower Show Hall, provided by CBG with program registration |
12:45 – 1:45 p.m. |
Eve Edelstein Neural Landscapes: Measuring how the brain and body respond to landscape and garden design |
2 – 3 p.m. |
William Sullivan Attention Restoration |
3 – 3:30 p.m. |
Stretch break, book signing and sale Fairchild Room |
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. |
Jack Carman Gardens designed for special needs populations |
4:30 – 5 p.m. |
Panel of speakers Informal Q&A |
7:30 p.m. |
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life Executive Producer: Stephen Kellert |
SPECIFIC CONTENT ELEMENTS
- Types of healthcare gardens and their defining characteristics
- Research, evidence-based design, and post-occupancy evaluation
- Passive and active garden experiences for positive health outcomes
- Characteristics of user groups (patients, family, visitors, and staff) and how they benefit
- How to reduce staff stress and increase satisfaction, retention, and recruitment
- Universal design, ADA, barrier-free design, regulations, codes, and specifications
- Integration of gardens into new and existing healthcare campus landscapes
- Connection of outdoor gardens to indoor spaces and therapeutic activities
- Plant selection and use, equipment, materials, safety, security, and privacy
- Construction and maintenance of new projects; performing renovations and redirecting uses of indoor and outdoor spaces, including rooftops
- Management of the garden facility and costs
- How to build winning healthcare garden design teams
- How to succeed in the client-centered marketplace
- Marketing, project proposals, and management; funding and resources
PROGRAM LOCATION
The one-day seminar program will be held in the Alsdorf Auditorium of the Regenstein Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The eight-day professional development certificate program will be held in the Linnaeus Room of the Regenstein Center. Click here for directions to the Garden.
LODGING
The Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden recommends the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel for accommodations.
Students registering for the Healthcare Garden Design Professional Development Program should not make lodging arrangements until after registering for the certificate program. A block of rooms at a special reduced rate have been set aside for program registrants. Please note: rooms are available under the block until Friday, April 26, 2013. Free transportation to and from the designated hotel locations and the Chicago Botanic Garden will be provided to all students. Information on the upcoming program as well as how to access discounted hotel rates will be sent to students after registration is complete.
ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Attendees who register after Friday, May 10 will not be eligible for the Gardens that Heal lunch option. Lunch will be available for purchase in the Garden Café. Cancellations for the eight day certificate program received in writing by 4 p.m. Friday, May 3, 2013 will be refunded less a processing fee. Cancellations for the Gardens that Heal program received in writing by 4 p.m. Friday May 10, 2013 will be refunded less a processing fee.
Courses canceled by the Garden due to low enrollment or hazardous weather conditions are refunded automatically as a credit on file. Credit can be accessed by contacting the registrar's office at (847) 835-8261.
If you need any accommodations to participate in a program, please contact the program manager, Amelia Simmons Hurt, or call (847) 835-8261 and press three after the greeting. For TDD/TYY, call (847) 835-0790.
For additional information about the program, contact Amelia Simmons-Hurt at (847) 835-8293 or .
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