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ROOTING Gardens:
GROWTH AND CARE THROUGH HANDS-ON INTERACTION
Rooting Gardens brings the healing benefits of gardening into schools, workplaces, and communities. Through hands-on activities, participants reconnect with nature, cultivate patience, and rediscover calm through nurturing living plants.
Whether as a one-time session or a multi-week journey, each programme helps people experience growth — in both the garden and themselves.
Purpose
To use plants, its materials and garden-based activities as pathways for emotional well-being, self-awareness, and community connection.
Focus Areas
1️⃣ Sensory Gardening – Engaging the senses through plants and gardening.
2️⃣ Calming Spaces – Creating therapeutic corners for reflection and rest.
3️⃣ School Well-being Projects – Growing community care through shared gardens.
4️⃣ Nature Crafting – Using natural materials for creative expression and mindfulness.
FOR SCHOOLS
Multi-weeks Programme for SEN & SEL Support
ROOTING offers structured Therapeutic Horticulture programmes for secondary school students with Special Educational Needs (SEN), and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) support needs.
Through plant-based activities in a calm and predictable setting, students are invited to engage with natural materials at their own pace. The focus is not on producing a perfect plant or craft piece, but on creating a safe space for settling, noticing, choosing, caring, and participating in ways that feel manageable.
This aligns well with your existing programme language: emotional safety, choice-based engagement, sensory tolerance, and early responsibility through interaction with plants and natural materials.
Programme Options
3-Week Introductory Programme
A focused introduction to Therapeutic Horticulture for student well-being, emotional regulation, and SEL-related growth.
6-Week Developmental Programme
A longer programme that allows students to deepen routines, build trust, and experience greater ownership through repeated plant-care and nature-based activities.
What Students May Experience
Settle into a green space
Notice plants, textures, colours, and scents
Make choices about how they wish to participate
Practise simple gardening movements
Care for a living plant
Build confidence through small, achieveable steps
Participate verbally or non-verbally
Students may observe, touch, smell, move, sit nearby, use tools, or simply take their time.
Participation is flexible and dignity is protected.
"When we tend the Earth, the Earth also tends to us."
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