EU’GO experimentations
Terra d’orto - Casa S. Rosa The first year of EU’GO project was dedicated to the discovery of other national and European realities and to the exchange of ideas. During the second year gardeners that participated to the Study Visits will implement in their urban garden a Good Practice that they observed in another country. A reflection activity on their learning process and acquisition of competences will take place, so in the end will contribute to the creation of tools used in the e-learning webpage , in order to give the opportunity to other gardeners to continue experimenting and learning!
Giovanna Lenzo works as therapeutic educator with the garden since 2006. During SV2 in UK she visited the “Horticultural Healing project” a garden that welcomes disadvantaged people with brain injuries.
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Evaluation tool in Horticultural therapy
In UK the Horticultural Therapy is recognized as therapeutic tool from the National Health Service and Giovanna exchanged her experience with Deb, responsible of the Garden in order to improve her work in Italy, aiming to strength the recognition of this practice
During Study Visit 3 in Rome, Giovanna and Terra d’Orto staff welcomed the group of European gardeners. She shared with the European gardeners her work and collected suggestions and addice from the group and from those work in the same field.
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EU’GO experimentations
Terra d’orto - Casa S. Rosa They started to exchange mail and their evaluation tools, present their work practices and give advices to each other. Pro-activism, curiosity and willingness to personal and professional development are the key elements and wishes of Giovanna’s experimentation.
Together with CEMEA’s responsible, the reflection on the evaluation tools brought her to develop the pre-existing tool she used in their work by taking inspiration from the ones used by Deb. Contributions came also from RJSM about tool for training in Horticultural Therapy.
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The horticultural activity will be evaluated looking at three characteristics:
Evaluation tool in Horticultural therapy
Horticultural therapy as rehabilitation tool Horticultural therapy as vocational training Users’ satisfaction of the Horticultural activities
The start of a new project in their garden is the field of the experimentation. From April to June she will evaluate the efficacy of the Horticultural therapy following a group of youngsters suffered from mentally diseases.
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