Creating Health and Community: The Regenerative Social Health Model | October 30-November 6, 2023

This is a one week, on site training led by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and David Decker that crosses multiple disciplines to construct a unique program for those interested in building spatial, community-based, and infrastructural changes in the way humans, animals, and the natural world meet and gather to interact. Teachings can be applied in schools and hospitals, churches and parks, mental health facilities and treatment centers, and within parks and trail systems. This course explores the empirical benefits of Cacciatore’s Regenerative Social Health Model integrating therapeutic aesthetics, animals, community planning, and horticulture in human geography, teaches ‘sustainability’ while considering the ethical duty to others, broadly defined. The course explores restorative spaces and ecologically based therapeutic communities and well as the history and current status of human-animal bonds/interactions/transactions and nature’s effects of physical, emotional, and mental wellness, exercise, and nutrition toward restorative communities that improve the overall quality of life for humans, animals, and the planet. It is currently offered one time per year, with about half the hours spent in didactic lectures and about half the hours in experiential pedagogy, learning and working on the carefarm.

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