Royal Talbot Garden Tour
Schedule
Sat Nov 23 2024 at 09:00 am
UTC+10:00Location
Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre | Melbourne, VI
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Walk & Talk tour of Austin Health's Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre's Therapeutic Gardens and HT Program with Steven Wells. Join us for an informative networking event where Steven will provide a guided tour of various garden projects and the horticultural therapy program that he's established over the past 20 years. It will be a relaxed Q&A style meandering tour discussing the processes, realities, challenges, benefits and rewards when establishing and maintaining garden spaces and HT programs within the public healthcare context.
Registrations opening shortly, watch this space!
About Steven Wells:
Steven is a nurse and horticulturist with 30 years of experience within healthcare. He has successfully combined these careers within Austin Health and works a collective of roles as a rehabilitation nurse, a horticultural therapist, the Gardens and Grounds Coordinator and the Staff Wellbeing Program Therapeutic Horticulture facilitator.
Steven has developed the successful horticultural therapy program and therapeutic gardens at the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre and have expanded on this to be developing and managing gardens across the Austin Health network.
He is passionate about connecting people with plants and gardens for improved health and well-being. In 2018 he was a guest presenter on the ABC Gardening Australia television show sharing stories about therapeutic horticulture
In 2015 Steven was awarded a prestigious 50th Anniversary Churchill Fellowship to research the development, use and management of therapeutic gardens in healthcare settings and in 2012 was awarded the Gardening Australia magazine Gardener of the Year.
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Where is it happening?
Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre, Fairfield Community Garden, Kew VIC 3101, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
