Advanced Module for Forest Bathing Guides for Seniors, Elderly, and People with Dementia
This training focuses on a special approach to age-related illnesses, specifically dementia and Alzheimer’s. Caregivers, attendants, and family members are also taken into account.
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Details
| Target group | Advanced Module for Forest Bathing Guides with a Special Focus on the Elderly and People with Dementia. |
| Duration | 3 days, Beginning 1. Day about 09.00 o’clock – Ending last day about 16.00 o’clock |
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Participants
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max. 6
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| Costs | 479,00 € Including script and certificate. Additional costs for transportation, accommodation, and meals. The seminar fees are exempt from VAT according to §4 No. 21a, bb UStG. |
| External participants | External participants who have received training in forest bathing are also welcome to attend. To register, please provide a copy of your confirmation of participation, certificate, or diploma detailing the relevant content and duration of study. If you have any questions regarding the suitability of your prior knowledge, feel free to contact us by phone or email. |
| Leadership | Jasmin Schlimm-Thierjung |
The Advanced Module in Detail
Advanced module for Forest Bathing Guides (including externally trained guides) with a special focus on the elderly and individuals with dementia. An offering for Forest Bathing Guides who professionally or voluntarily care for and support elderly individuals or those with dementia, or are personally affected as family members.
CONTENTS
When the senses are no longer “used,” they deteriorate, and life becomes meaningless. Through forest bathing, all senses are awakened. As a “Forest Bathing Guide for the Elderly and Individuals with Dementia,” you provide people with impulses so that their senses are stimulated in a variety of ways, allowing them to connect with the environment and others. Only when perception diminishes is it noticeable how important it is to continually train the senses. However, seniors often neglect this, and they need to be reintroduced to specific exercises. Training the senses means they can increase their quality of life again.
For individuals with dementia, targeted sensory training focuses on what they can still do well—their deficits recede into the background. Additionally, human memory is closely linked to the senses—especially smell. Forest bathing engages their senses, turning off the cognitive processes. This is often challenging for adults, but for individuals with dementia, reliance on their senses increases as they lose cognitive abilities.
TARGET AUDIENCE
An offering for Forest Bathing Guides who professionally or voluntarily care for and support elderly individuals or those with dementia, or are personally affected as family members.
OBJECTIVE
This training focuses on a unique approach to age-related illnesses, particularly dementia and Alzheimer’s. Caregivers, support staff, and family members are also considered. You will learn how to bring patients and caregivers together through targeted exercises, creating a relaxed forest bathing experience for both parties, allowing caregivers to also find solace.
CONCEPT
The forest, as a low-stimulus environment, is the best training ground for sensory stimulation. Even if individuals are unable to wander through the forest, there are ways to practice forest bathing—in the garden or on a bench at the forest edge. And if individuals cannot go outside at all, then the forest comes to the room.
COMPLETION
The training concludes with brief practical forest bathing sessions developed by each participant during the training, which are presented to the group.