| Our Vision
The Wellness Gardens serves as the catalyst for healing and renewal. A place to visit, to experience, to take refuge in and, as a result, nothing in the world may have changed but the way you see and approach everything is different. |
| Combining horticultural therapy with the increased awareness of preventive health contributors to increase overall Well-Being is our Primary Goal. Creating an environment in which ALL beings feel welcome, and can experience the benefits, regardless of their level of wellness, is our Plan! |
| Fund raising is a major part of our activities to make these gardens a reality. Contributions of any amount are gratefully received. |
We are looking for an appropriate location to develop these gardens. If you have a parcel of land that you can envision as the a wellness garden, email us at The Wellness Gardens. |
Links
| American Horticultural Therapy Association |
| National Cancer Organization |
| Cancer Links |
| Thrive |
| Our Mission
To provide special gardens in which people with varying backgrounds, ages and degrees of wellness may visit to enhance their lives. We will make available restorative, rehabilitative meditative and enabling gardens that may restore our physical and spiritual balance. We will illustrate humanity’s stewardship of, and interconnectedness with the earth. |
| The earth has great healing power, learning how and why this is true can occupy much of a lifetime and is only the beginning. Spending time in the various teaching gardens, the healing memorial gardens, and the multi-sensory gardens, will serve as a path along this lifetime journey . |
| Our Focus
The gardens will be open to the public and may simply appear to be no more than a collection of beautiful, accessible gardens to visit, which will allow for some of the best healing/wellness of all! We believe that when the World Health Organization defines health as…” a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” they are CORRECT!
Some of our gardens will be adapted and specifically designed for visitors who may have physical limitations or who could benefit from the principles of Horticultural Therapy . Other gardens will be developed to enhance multi-generational interaction. Some will simply be wonderful places to explore. The Wellness Gardens will have preventative awareness programs, alternative health and lifestyle events and horticultural therapy activities.
Much of our focus will be specifically on individuals and family members, who have been given a diagnosis, undergoing treatment, or are in recovery from cancer. However we believe EVERYONE can increase their overall sense of well-being by experiencing The Wellness Gardens. The American Cancer Society’s 2004 statistical research states, that lifetime probability of developing cancer in the USA is 1 in 2 men, and 1 in 3 women. This extremely high probability rate , combined with cancer representing the number 2 cause of mortality, at 22.9% of all deaths in 2001, acts as a driver to our efforts. We believe these disturbing statistics indicate literally EVERYONE will be affected by cancer, either directly, or with a loved one who experiences this dreadful disease. |
| The earth served as our first pharmacopoeia. Maybe in understanding our continued interdependency, how what happens to the earth, also happens to humanity, a reversal in this trend of health desecration may be possible. |
| Our Promise
To Do Our BEST to make The Wellness Gardens…
More Enabling Accessible to as Many as Possible As Barrier-Free as we can by using "Universal Design"
The Wellness Gardens intends to make your journey along our path as easy as possible. You may have noticed while you were visiting our site we use larger than “standard” fonts, our colors may seem a little brighter than you normally see, and our layout is BEST on the screen . This is to help us fulfill Our Promise, to make your journey on-line as easy as possible.
We know you may want to print some of the pages. Using your printer function directly you will only be able to print part of each page. However by using the printable format button we have on each page, you will be able to access a printer friendly version.
We know it is impossible to make everything available to everyone, our budget, resources and terrain give us many limitations, but Our Promise is to Do Our BEST!
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| The Wellness Gardens is a California Non-Profit Corporation The material on this site is intended to compliment the advice of medical and mental health professionals, not replace it. This information was collected from both published sources and experienced professionals. Specific questions about medical care or psychological support for individuals or families should be addressed to those professionals already involved in their care. |