Nature as therapist: integrating permaculture with mindfulness- and acceptance based therapy in the Danish Healing Forest Garden Nacadia

Sus Sola Corazon; Anna Ulrika Karlsson Stigsdotter; Maja Steen Møller; Susan Møller Rasmussen

doi:10.1080/13642537.2012.734471

Nature as therapist: integrating permaculture with mindfulness- and acceptance based therapy in the Danish Healing Forest Garden Nacadia

Sus Sola Corazon, Anna Ulrika Karlsson Stigsdotter, Maja Steen Møller, Susan Møller Rasmussen

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Nature-based therapy can be considered an umbrella term for a diverse range of psychotherapeutic and allied practices which integrate experiences and activities in nature as therapeutic means. The objective of this article is to describe the theoretical framework for nature-based therapy in a university-founded healing forest garden near Copenhagen, Denmark. The garden will offer a 10-week treatment for people who are on sick leave with stress-related illness. This article focuses on clarifying the integration between the psychotherapeutic and gardening aspects of the nature-based therapy. The psychotherapeutic aspects are based on mindfulness and an acceptance therapy, while the gardening aspects are highly inspired by permacultural principles and methods.

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Volume	14
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	335-347
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2012.734471
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

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Nature as therapist: integrating permaculture with mindfulness- and acceptance based therapy in the Danish Healing Forest Garden Nacadia. / Corazon, Sus Sola ; Stigsdotter, Anna Ulrika Karlsson ; Møller, Maja Steen et al.
In: European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Vol. 14, No. 4, 12.2012, p. 335-347.

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