Nurture with Nature: Memory Pockets

Working with the healing power of plants can help to decrease stress and anxiety, process grief, and improve overall well-being. Through activities that combine plant materials with eco-mindfulness and creative tools, this therapeutic horticulture workshop supports connection with ourselves and the natural environment of Nature’s Sanctuary, Laurel Hill’s native plant garden and green burial area. The workshop is led by Kate Irvine, a trained horticulturist and mixed media artist with a certificate in Horticultural Therapy. May Session: Memory Pockets Discover new life in the spring garden a la “I Spy.” Prompts will guide a meditative search for natural objects as we learn to identify native plant materials, explore the hindsight of remembering the past, and consider the foresight of looking ahead. We’ll then use our found object collections to create personal shadowboxes.