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Welcome
to the website for ecotherapy in Denmark, a site dedicated to the theory and practice of nature-facilitated models of mental healthcare, including contempory ecotherapy (Burls, 2007), green exercise, green care, healing gardens, horticultural therapy, wilderness therapy, civic environmentalism and nature-facilitated, integrative practices within psychotherapy.
The goals of the centre:
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To practice ecotherapy and nature-facilitated psychotherapy
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To generate and diseminate information about the therapeutic use of natural contexts and nature-based strategies for the restoration, promotion and maintenance of psychological health
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To explore how ecotherapeutic and ecopsychological approaches can be integrated into traditional therapeutic practices
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To contribute to the building of a network of groups and individuals who are interested in the field
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To generally support the development of ecotherapy and ecopsychology in Denmark - the greening of mental healthcare!
“...psychotherapy has been so tardy in acknowledging that the psyche is not a separate entity but an integral aspect of an ecological whole. Well-being depends not only on the balance of our intrapsychic systems but also on our interactions with both the micro and macro ecology of which we are just one interdependent element”
George Burns, clinical psychologist (Burns, 1998, Nature-Guided Therapy, p. xv)
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Historic
• Pilot project - succesful couple-building workshop in nature November 2008. Upcoming article in mainstream Danish magazine, Psykologi, in February 2009
• August 2008- Workshop: Nature as psychological intervention - a greener approach to therapy
• First ever conference on ecotherapy held in London June 2nd 2008 »
• Course in nature-guided psychotherapy with George Burns February 2008 »
• UK Mind launches new green agenda for mental health »
Private practice: www.greenheart.dk |
