Professional Focus
Program and curriculum development for institutions connecting people, plants, education, and wellbeing through place-based initiatives.
About the consultancy
Connecting horticulture, outdoor learning, and institutional purpose.
Just Listen to Nature develops programs that bring people, plants, learning, and organizational priorities together.
About the practice
A focused consultancy for institutions developing nature-based programs.
We help universities and organizations define, design, and launch therapeutic horticulture and nature-based wellbeing programs shaped around their people, setting, and institutional goals.
Areas of Interest
People-plant relationships, outdoor learning, environmental wellbeing, therapeutic garden programming, and interdisciplinary institutional collaboration.
Why People and Plants
Direct engagement with plants can create distinctive opportunities for learning, connection, reflection, and a stronger relationship with place.
Program Development Philosophy
Begin with the institution and its people, test the direction through a focused first step, and prepare the organization to lead the resulting program.
Geographic Focus
Just Listen to Nature is particularly interested in partnerships throughout Asia and in tropical or warm-climate settings. International and interdisciplinary collaborations are also welcome.
Professional terminology
Broad wellbeing programming and clinical practice are not the same.
The site uses therapeutic horticulture and nature-based wellbeing for educational and organizational programs. Horticultural therapy is reserved for properly structured clinical work or discussion of the academic field.
The American Horticultural Therapy Association distinguishes therapeutic horticulture from horticultural therapy and describes the professional requirements associated with clinical practice.
Review the AHTA definitionsJust Listen to Nature provides educational, organizational, and program-development consulting. Services are not a substitute for medical or psychological diagnosis or treatment. Clinical horticultural therapy initiatives should be implemented in collaboration with appropriately qualified professionals.
A focused first step
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