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Workshop 1a: “What if our last breaths could be breathtaking?”: A “walkshop” exploring parks/nature connection in palliative and grief care
Time:
Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024:
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:Hotel Kreuz - Room "Hodler"
Language: English
Presentations
“What if our last breaths could be breathtaking?”: A “walkshop” exploring parks/nature connection in palliative and grief care
Sonya L. Jakubec1, Jennell Rempel2
1Mount Royal University, Canada; 2Alberta Parks
Target Audience:
Palliative and grief care providers including: medical, nursing, spiritual and social workers, occupational/recreational/physical therapists, counsellors/psychologists; as well as community planners, developers, organizers, advocates and supporters.
Learning Objectives:
Informed by Healthy-Parks Healthy-People, Green-Social Prescribing and Compassionate Communities movements, parks/nature have been found to play a role in quality of life at end-of-life, in palliative care, grief and memorializing. This session seeks to examine the meaning, as well as the realities, of connecting people and places that are forever changing in the seasons of life and cycles of nature. Here we ask, how can positive nature experiences be facilitated for people in palliative and grief care? We will uncover the necessary ingredients across health and park sectors, from professional and community sites of intervention. Ultimately, in this “walkshop” [a workshop with an immersive nature walking activity], participants will explore the guiding question “What if our last breaths could be breathtaking?” Specific “walkshop” objectives are to:
1) Learn about the evidence and practical activities for nature connectedness that contribute positively to palliative and grief care.
2) Discuss and directly experience nature connection, exploring the distinct aspects of nature contact and connectedness.
3) Feel reconnected to nature and inspired to facilitate nature connection for people experiencing palliative and grief care.
Workshop Format:
In this “walkshop” participants will both learn about action research discoveries and immerse themselves in their own personal discoveries of outdoor/nature connectedness for people experience palliative care, in grief/mourning and memorializing. Discussion of nature connectedness and interests will start the session. Results and outcomes of a decade-long intersectoral, collaborative research program will be shared through presentation, documentary film and storytelling. An immersive nature walking experience, outside, at the nearby Ringgepark (a short 2-minute walk from Kornhausforum, the main conference venue) will follow. Enlivening the lessons learned in presentation, dialogue and discussion, our walk will concentrate on an exploration of key aspects of nature connectedness (including sensory awakening, nature companioning/interpretation and nostalgia/memory making). Participants can prepare for a breathtaking, immersive session.
