Purpose
Often referred to as healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes, gardens in healthcare settings are proven to have positive impacts on medical outcomes. The purpose of this 11/2-day course is to introduce basic concepts and processes of designing healing gardens. It provides definitions and a practical review of the research and history that shows how nature supports and promotes healing, reduces stress and benefits patients, families, caregivers and healthcare professionals.

Participants will be introduced to types of healthcare facilities where gardens and usable outdoor spaces are found, garden types, common themes, programmed activities, patient groups and predictable outcomes. Healing gardens will be explored through case studies, pictorial tours of existing successful gardens and a variety of design elements and materials.

Audiences
This course is intended for practicing landscape architects and related design professionals, healthcare facilities administrators, landscape planners, occupational and horticultural therapists.

Agenda

Event Presenters
Jack Carman
Design for Generations — Medford, New Jersey
Jack Carman, President of Design for Generations, LLC, is a Landscape Architect specializing in the design and development of Therapeutic Gardens and landscapes for senior communities and healthcare facilities. Jack actively works to promote the design and development of Therapeutic Gardens and Landscapes through speaking engagements and publications. Jack is the founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Practice Committee on Healthcare and Therapeutic Landscapes. He is the editor of, and contributor to, the recently published book Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging.

Angela Pappas, BS, MLA
Landscape Architect — Atlanta, Georgia
Angela Pappas has a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia. Her focus of study included Therapeutic Gardens, culminating with the thesis Design Recommendations for an Alzheimer's Garden at Wesley Woods Hospital of Emory University. She graduated in 2006.

Angela began in the medical field with a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology from the Medical College of Georgia. She has 12 years of experience in medical, hospital and pharmaceutical sales. These careers created the framework for her passion — working with health and well-being, nature, patients and the medical profession. These factors have highlighted the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to therapeutic garden design. Her Landscape Architecture experience includes work on active senior living communities, complete-care senior living campuses, nursing homes and hospitals.

Currently the Chair for the ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) Therapeutic Garden and Healthcare Professional Practice Network, Angela hopes to increase awareness of this important specialty of Landscape Architecture. She is also a member of the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) as well as Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. She occasionally offers guest lectures at UGA and leads a tour of therapeutic gardens in the Atlanta area for Landscape Architecture students. She contributed to the book Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging; her chapter is "Nature Related Contact for Healthy Communities."

Connie Roy-Fisher
Roy-Fisher Associates — Tequesta, Florida
Connie Roy-Fisher is the Principal of Roy-Fisher Associates, a Landscape Architecture firm in South Florida that focuses on built projects. The mission of Roy-Fisher Associates is to foster a connection between natural elements, the senses, the psyche and the soul. As more and more natural landscapes are erased, it becomes increasingly important to create landscapes that restore, invigorate and inspire. The mission is nothing less than to distill and amplify the qualities of nature: water, wind, stone, plants, light, the seasons and the sky. For the last six years, Connie has researched, studied, designed and presented materials on the therapeutic environments in an effort to foster collaborative efforts between hospital administrators, architects, engineers and therapists in the creation of environments that make people feel better.

Connie received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Virginia. She has completed an intensive two-week course on designing Healing Gardens at the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, as well as continuing education units (CEUs) on designing healthcare facilities at the Harvard University School of Design. She has lectured at the International Symposium of Arts and Healing, and at "Places that Heal," a symposium presented by Architecture Magazine. Connie offers a two-part CEU course for architects titled "Expanding Ideas on Healthcare Site Design," which explores evidence-based design and how careful planning and integration of site and building design can accommodate active and passive treatment modalities for better health outcomes. Her completed projects include gardens at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach; several projects at The Pavilion, a nursing home facility; and the Jacqueline Fiske Healing Garden at Jupiter Medical Center.

Kirk W. Hines, HTR
Wesley Woods — Atlanta, Georgia
Kirk W. Hines is a Registered Horticultural Therapist and has been a member of the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) since 1993. He graduated from Berry College with a BS degree in Ornamental Horticulture and completed his practicum and internship in Horticultural Therapy at Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital. Kirk joined the Rehabilitation Services staff at Wesley Woods Hospital of Emory Healthcare in 1993 and founded its Horticultural Therapy Program. A frequent lecturer at colleges, universities, professional organizations and garden societies, Kirk also educates students and interns in allied healthcare professions within the Emory Healthcare system. He is a national Board of Directors member of the AHTA and a charter executive Board of Directors member of the Georgia/Alabama Chapter of the AHTA, serving as its 1999-2002 President. His published articles include "Gardening with Older Adults" and "Wesley Woods Horticultural Therapy Program" for Horticultural Therapy — A Guide for All Seasons and Health & Gardens. Articles featuring his program have appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Reader's Digest, Pulse and Wesleyan Advocate. Television segments on Horticultural Therapy at Wesley Woods have aired both locally and nationally on Fox 5 Atlanta, Fox News Network and CNN.

Debi Cziok, RN, BSN, HTR
Shepherd Center — Atlanta, Georgia
Debi Cziok has been a Master Gardener and Registered Nurse for 30+ years. She became disillusioned with nursing because she likes to work with people one-on-one. She relocated from Alaska to Georgia and "killed everything I planted." She then took a Master Gardener course ("to save the plants!") and became hooked on the benefits of the people/plant connection. Debi began working at Shepherd Center in 2004 as a Horticulture Specialist. Shepherd Center is a catastrophic care rehabilitation hospital devoted to the medical care of people with spinal cord injuries and acquired brain injuries, as well as other neuromuscular problems. Debi became involved with the local Alabama/Georgia AHTA (American Horticultural Therapy Association) group and the national AHTA group. She worked toward becoming a Registered Horticulture Therapist (HTR), achieving the title in 2006. She has presented at both local and national conferences on the topics of Accessible Gardening and Adapted Tools as they relate to people with limitations.

Dayle Gordon
Piedmont Hospital — Atlanta, Georgia
Dayle Gordon holds a Master of Science degree in Health and Sports Science from Long Island University (1986) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Science and Education from Inter-American University of Puerto Rico (1973). She has a unique bilingual background.

Dayle is a Certified Therapeutic Recreational Specialist (CTRS), a Master Gardener and the President of the Georgia/Alabama Horticultural Therapy Association. She has worked with a multidisciplinary treatment team on the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at Piedmont Hospital since 1998. Dayle introduced Therapeutic Horticulture to Piedmont Hospital and is responsible for the program's growth hospital-wide, focusing on the expansion of the therapy garden (Byrd Barrier-Free Garden) for all patients to utilize. Among her significant previous work, she spent 30 years in the field of Mental Health and Rehabilitation in New York City as a clinical supervisor and directed multidisciplinary treatment teams. She spent 10 years as an Associate Professor at the college level in Therapeutic Recreation, Exercise Physiology and Health Science, and six years as an Associate Professor and an Academic Coordinator for graduate studies in Health and Sports Science.

Marguerite L. Koepke
Professor Emerita — The University of Georgia
Marguerite L. Koepke is a Registered Landscape Architect (KS, GA) and Professor Emerita of the University of Georgia. A graduate of Iowa State University (1979), Marguerite spent the first five years of her career in private practice in Honolulu, HI, and Kansas City, MO, before pursuing a graduate degree at Kansas State University. She taught while working on her degree and continued on the faculty for nearly seven years thereafter. In 1984, she accepted a teaching position at the University of Georgia and taught a variety of basic and specialized design courses for 22 years, retiring from full-time teaching in 2006. Marguerite continues to teach a 5th-year senior design studio in Therapeutic Site Design and coordinates the Governor's Teaching Fellows program, a faculty development program for teachers in Georgia's public and private colleges and universities. She attended the two-week intensive course on designing Healing Gardens at the Chicago Botanic Garden and recently finished serving as Chair for the ASLA's Professional Practice Network on Healthcare and Therapeutic Design.

Marguerite's first interests in Therapeutic Site Design began with the Plants/People discussions that grew out of the Horticultural Therapy discipline. Her initial interests focused mainly on children and nature play, and evolved through a rather natural progression to studying the connections between people, nature and health. Her personal journey through the healthcare system as a cancer patient and survivor deepened her commitment to advocating and creating places of nature and healing within hospitals, hospices and other healthcare settings. Marguerite, through research, design and teaching, has turned her personal and professional journey into a vision of nurturing places that support healing and wellness.

Brad E. Davis
Assistant Professor — The University of Georgia
Brad E. Davis is a licensed Landscape Architect and teaches courses in Plant Identification, Planting Design, Site Design and Engineering, and Field Study in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia. Brad has practiced primarily in Florida and Tennessee for more than seven years, designing public parks, greenways, streetscapes and residential gardens. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from East Tennessee State University, with a concentration in Field Ecology and a minor in Vocal Performance, and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Louisiana State University School of Landscape Architecture. His Master's thesis, titled Healing the Whole Person: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of the Rooftop Therapy Park, was a post occupancy study of a rooftop hospital garden. His current projects include a grant-funded school garden design and implementation. Through this work, he seeks a fuller understanding of the healing and educational properties of the garden in the school context and new opportunities for post occupancy evaluation.

Sponsored By:
The University of Georgia

• School of Environmental Design
• Center for Continuing Education Conference Center & Hotel

For Further Information, Contact:
Neal Weatherly, Jr.
Continuing Education Coordinator
706-542-0943
nweath@uga.edu

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Registration

Early fee paid on or before 5/18/09 — $360
Fee paid after 5/18/09 — $405