Our Professional Learning Seminars offer meaningful CPD for therapeutic horticulture practitioners — all provided online so you can join from wherever you work. Each session explores real issues faced in day‑to‑day practice, sharing insights, approaches and peer experience you can apply in your project. With space to learn, reflect and connect with colleagues across the Trellis network, these online seminars support you to strengthen your practice, build confidence and continue developing your professional skills.
Professional Learning Seminars
Is your TH project ready for referrals from health, care and social prescribing services?
Is your TH project ready for referrals from health, care and social prescribing services?
Join Fiona and Emma as they share their experience of using therapeutic horticulture (TH) to support health and wellbeing —...
The Long and Winding Road- A Look at Past Projects, Lessons Learned and Future Growth in Therapeutic Horticulture with Professor Matthew J. Wichrowski, NYC
The Long and Winding Road- A Look at Past Projects, Lessons Learned and Future Growth in Therapeutic Horticulture with Professor Matthew J. Wichrowski, NYC
Join Professor Matthew J. Wichrowski of NYU Langone Hospital Center, New York as he draws on over 30 years of...
Ready for Winter? Getting through the colder months with your TH group
Ready for Winter? Getting through the colder months with your TH group
Explore how to support your therapeutic horticulture (TH) group through the challenges of winter. From planning for staff absences and...
Professional Learning Seminars Archive
Planning Weekly TH Topics & Recording Wellbeing in Gardening Sessions
Planning Weekly TH Topics & Recording Wellbeing in Gardening Sessions
Planning Weekly TH Topics & Recording Wellbeing in Gardening Sessions with Emma Martindale and Jenny Simpson, Trellis Members - FREE...
Growing the Practice: The Evolution of the foremost textbook in the field, Horticultural Therapy Methods with Rebecca L. Haller, Horticultural Therapy Institute, Colorado.
Growing the Practice: The Evolution of the foremost textbook in the field, Horticultural Therapy Methods with Rebecca L. Haller, Horticultural Therapy Institute, Colorado.
Price: Non-members - £10 Members - FREE Please join us for this very special event. If therapeutic horticulture has a...
Scottish STH Practitioners supporting those with Mental Health Difficulties
Scottish STH Practitioners supporting those with Mental Health Difficulties
Suzanne Fox shares the findings of her MSc Research on The Experience of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture Practitioners Working to...
Why, What and How to measure the benefits of STH
Why, What and How to measure the benefits of STH
Alison Marsden will share her MSc research on outcome measurement in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture. Why, What and How to...
Growth and Recovery from Sexual Violence Through Gardening and Craft
Growth and Recovery from Sexual Violence Through Gardening and Craft
Autumn Roesch-Marsh, University of Edinburgh: Emma Martindale, Trellis and Lara Armitage, Birkhill House share the research findings from a study...
Growing Recovery: The story of enthusiastic volunteers, a large poly tunnel and courgette cake!
Growing Recovery: The story of enthusiastic volunteers, a large poly tunnel and courgette cake!
Alcohol and Drugs Action (ADA) Recovery Garden Project is a gardening based therapeutic group led by volunteers for people in...
A Year in the Therapy Garden: Badenoch & Strathspey, Highland Scotland
A Year in the Therapy Garden: Badenoch & Strathspey, Highland Scotland
Hear about our varied work providing social and therapeutic horticultural activities at our Growing Spaces within a local allotment; Medical...
Mindfulness in Nature
Mindfulness in Nature
Mindfulness can enhance wellbeing and lift mood. In this interactive seminar, learn how to use 'Making a Mandala' as a...
In Flanders Fields: tales of gardening in Flanders, in prisons and other settings
In Flanders Fields: tales of gardening in Flanders, in prisons and other settings
Find out more about therapeutic gardening practice in Belgium. Including a prison in Leuwen and PXL university who are partners...
HT Across the Continents: Approaches to improving the human condition - A Study from Northern Iraq
HT Across the Continents: Approaches to improving the human condition - A Study from Northern Iraq
The intercontinental team will present, in three perspectives, their collaborative work to help support a therapeutic gardening programme in Chamchamal...
Therapeutic Horticulture and the Healing Benefits of Nature from Down Under
Therapeutic Horticulture and the Healing Benefits of Nature from Down Under
Therapeutic Horticulture is building momentum in Australia. Join Tara Graham-Cochrane, Therapeutic Horticulture Australia (THA) President, Amy Baker, researcher and lecturer...
Research on horticulture therapy – experience from the living lab Alnarp Rehabilitation garden, Sweden
Research on horticulture therapy – experience from the living lab Alnarp Rehabilitation garden, Sweden
Gardening in Sweden - research and practice. Research on horticulture therapy – experience from the living lab Alnarp Rehabilitation garden...
Nature is essential for our lives: growing vegetables and flowers with people affected by addiction in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
Nature is essential for our lives: growing vegetables and flowers with people affected by addiction in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
Mirela will reflect on how she developed the gardening project in a therapeutic community in a neighbouring town, what the...
Gardening with the Grand Duchess of Tuscany: A tale of how therapeutic horticulture is beginning to flourish in Italy
Gardening with the Grand Duchess of Tuscany: A tale of how therapeutic horticulture is beginning to flourish in Italy
The Villa Granduchessa, built in 1400 in a park on a hill overlooking Florence, has belonged to many noble families...
Herbal Bath Bags & Wildflower Meadows
Herbal Bath Bags & Wildflower Meadows
Embrace Spring with Emma & Joan's garden inspired crafts! Make herbal bath bags for a relaxing, fragrant soak in the...
Building Community
Building Community
Alan will tell us about Murrayburn & Hailesland Neighbourhood Garden, Edinburgh - how it came into being and what takes...
Assistive Technology Structures in the Horticultural Therapy Garden and its Impacts
Assistive Technology Structures in the Horticultural Therapy Garden and its Impacts
Dr Beela G.K. will tell us about her work developing horticulture therapy programmes with children with autism and other physical...
Understanding Horticulture for Health and Well-being - Building on Research
Understanding Horticulture for Health and Well-being - Building on Research
Research on the role of horticulture in human wellbeing is mounting up, year after year. Practitioners can use this evidence-base...
Insights and Techniques: Developing a Therapy Garden
Insights and Techniques: Developing a Therapy Garden
Natalie McCall discusses developing a therapy garden informed by psychiatrist Judith Herman's work on trauma and recovery. Click here to...
Horticulture and Therapy in the United States
Horticulture and Therapy in the United States
This session will focus on results from a study of Horticultural Therapy practitioners on the current challenges and opportunities for...
Important Social Spaces
Important Social Spaces
Girvan Community Garden ( www.girvancommunitygarden.com) is situated within a former walled garden found at the bottom of a narrow winding...
Healing Garden at an orphanage in Lima
Healing Garden at an orphanage in Lima
In April 2019 a Healing Garden was implemented at an orphanage in Lima, Peru and on 2 May the horticultural...
Potatoes: a journey through time and around the globe
Potatoes: a journey through time and around the globe
John Marshall certainly knows his spuds! Join John to learn about potato cultivation in Scotland and across the world from...
Therapeutic gardening: where does France stand?
Therapeutic gardening: where does France stand?
Therapeutic gardening has been making small headways in France for several years. In 2018, a group of diverse practitioners founded...
Printing with Plants : Using Gel Plates
Printing with Plants : Using Gel Plates
Join Ruth Nay of Forfar Open Gardens, who will demonstrate how to use plants to make beautiful artisitic prints using...
Social and Therapeutic Horticulture in Spain
Social and Therapeutic Horticulture in Spain
Leila Alcalde is a passionate horticulture therapist.In recent years, the interest in nature-based therapies in Spain has slowly increased Click...
Project in a 'Poke'
Project in a 'Poke'
A demonstration of three table-top gardening activities which lend themselves to live demo sessions or being shared as postal projects...
Horatio's Gardens, improving the lives of those affected by spinal injury
Horatio's Gardens, improving the lives of those affected by spinal injury
The Scottish National Spinal Injuries Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow cares for patients with spinal injury. Join Sallie...
Therapeutic Horticulture Movement In Singapore
Therapeutic Horticulture Movement In Singapore
Understand the journey of introducing therapeutic horticulture in urbanised city like Singapore, the research on therapeutic horticulture and growing the...