Tuesday, July 25, 2023

2023 American Horticulture Therapy Association Annual Conference, Virtual Format, 20-21 October 2023

 

Photo from Urban Growers Collective, South Sideo of Chicago, Illinois
Human Healing through Urban Gardening? 



American Horticulture Therapy Association  Annual Conference

20-21 October 2023

Virtual Format to reach a more expansive group of horticultural therapists.

 

Register Today for AHTA 2023

 

Join us on October 20–21, 2023, for AHTA 2023: 50 Years of Cultivating Horticultural Therapy. This year, the AHTA Conference will be in a virtual format. By meeting virtually, we have the opportunity to reach a more expansive group of horticultural therapists from around the world. 

 

Register today to secure our early-bird conference rates! These reduced rates will no longer be available after September 1, 2023. We look forward to supporting continuing education and development, as well as facilitating networking opportunities at this year's conference! 

 

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July 24, 2023

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2023 AHTA Annual Conference

 

Register Today for AHTA 2023

 

Join us on October 20–21, 2023, for AHTA 2023: 50 Years of Cultivating Horticultural Therapy. This year, the AHTA Conference will be in a virtual format. By meeting virtually, we have the opportunity to reach a more expansive group of horticultural therapists from around the world. 

 

Register today to secure our early-bird conference rates! These reduced rates will no longer be available after September 1, 2023. We look forward to supporting continuing education and development, as well as facilitating networking opportunities at this year's conference! 

 

Register Now

 

 

Registration Rates

 

Here's a quick run-down of our current rates for the full conference:

 

 

Registration Type

 

Early-Bird
(through September 1) 

 

Regular 
(through October 20)

Member

 

$145

$175

 

Student

$25

 

$50

Non-Member

 

$190

$225

 

Register Now

 

Cancellations received in writing on or before September 29, 2023, will receive a refund, less a $25 processing fee. There will be no refunds after September 29, 2023 (substitutions are welcome). Please reach out to the AHTA Office to request a cancellation or substitution. 

 

 

 

Meet the Keynote Speakers

Conference Keynote Speaker 
Rebecca Haller, HTM

 

Conference Keynote Speaker
Dr. Robert Zarr, MD, MPH

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2023 Sponsorship Opportunities

 

Are you interested in receiving valuable exposure for your organization's brand? Consider taking advantage of AHTA's 2023 sponsorship opportunities. By partnering with AHTA in 2023, you can build your network with horticultural professionals, and promote educational programs or products and services through the AHTA website, targeted emails, social media, AHTA magazine, and the annual conference.

 

Through our diverse and expanding professional network, horticultural therapists continue to increase their reach. Your sponsorship is an excellent way to connect your company, services, and products to our allied professionals. Your partnership will also support the growth and well-being of the populations we serve, including healthcare organizations, older adult communities, wellness groups, psychology & human services, veterans, educational institutions, vocational programs, and more!

 

Become a Sponsor

 

 

 

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@ahta.org.

 

American Horticultural Therapy Association

American Horticultural Therapy Association

 

info@ahta.org
(206) 209-5296
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Life in Havana, Cuba

Thanks to Alisa Froman, ED of Plaza Cuba, a very wonderful arts (music and dance) exchange between the US and Cuba who posted this picture from Central Havana, Cuba some years ago!!!!
It was taken by one of the participants in a Plaza Cuba tour! Typical Cuban scene in a society that is all about friendship, love and being good neighbors!!!
While a slight exaggeration, no one has moved since the Cuban revolution, 1958, which has built very very very very strong communities that are like extended families. 
Cubans already live three generations in one house just like I did as a child growing up in the Bottoms in Columbus, Ohio at my grandmother's house. I was born in 1958, the year of Cuba's revolution. 
My grandmother, my father, one of his brothers, and my mom, his wife and we two children all lived together! Across the street was my father's  best friend, Jr, with whom he grew up and his parents and his children. Three generational households. 
The whole Street, Chappel Street, was like that. Growing up there, my little brother and I and my family were surrounded by community wide three generational love!!! 
And Cuba is just like that!!!! It's all but impossible to be lonely in Cuba consequently!!!! And Cuba is famous for this very strong social fabric. It makes an enormous difference in life!!!! And creates a lot of social peace and LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alisa Froman (20+) Facebook
Alisa is the Executive Director of Plaza CUBA
                                       Music, Dance and Cultural Travel to Cuba!
                                                          http://www.plazacuba.com 

My first visits to Cuba were on my own and then with her music and dance tours which are WONDERFUL!!! VERY WELL DONE!!!! You meet a lot of really wonderful Cuban dancers and musicians, dance and play a lot of music and HAVE A LOT OF FUN!!! You really get to know Cuban people and culture and again have a lot of fun!!!! And Cuban culture is amazing! From West Africa to Indigenous Cuba to Spain and the Arabic culture that first settled what is known as Spain as well as Havana's own China town. These trips also include tours around Havana and the island!!!  I highly recommend!!!!

 

"Remember Cuba" the whisper

"Remember Cuba" the whisper....

Thursday, June 15, 2023

All There Ever Is/Todo Lo Que Hay





All there ever is is this, right now. the now, this moment, again and again and again, this moment........no past, the past is just a thought. No future, the future is just a thought. all there ever is is just this......

And 4 this reason alone Everything is possible......
How could life be so beautiful?
how could life be so beautiful?
how could life be so beautiful?
And I not have known?
How?
How?
Could I or anyone have suffered in this magnificent perfection of divinity?
It was just a dream.
It wasn't real or true.
My suffering was neither real nor true.
It was just a dream.
It was just a thought. It was just an illusion.
It never happened.


Yes, that is the Truth.


All of this suffering I thought I experienced, never happened.


And now I know the truth.


It never happened.
None of it.
It never happened.
It was all just a dream, an illusion.
It never happened.
It was just a dream, an illusion.


My grandmother's mother never died when she was young.
My grandmother's mother was never born.
Like my grandmother, her mother, and my mother and myself,
we all are and forever have been the eternal being itself, never born, no death, no suffering, eternal beingness itself....
awareness, pure consciousness, spirit, God itself.


Who knew...?
Who knew?
This was all just a dream?
And that one day I would wake up?
Who knew?
Who knew?
My father for one knew.
And because he knew, I now too know.


The truth.


That from before I was born and this world existed,
it was all just a dream, arising in pure consciousness, awareness itself, just illusions.


That no one was ever hurt.
No one was ever harmed.
That it was all just God, Pure Consciousness, eternal being itself, dreaming.
that eternal energy of beingness itself, no beginning, no end,
pure illusions


Consciousness Conscious of Consciousness itself
no one ever harmed
no one ever harmed
all swooning in the energy of pure and eternal love with no opposite.


who knew
how did I know
did I know
that all "I" could ever be too
was this
just this
beautiful transcendent eternal awareness, pure consciousness
itself
rising and falling like the imaginary waves in the imaginary sea
in the imaginary world
where only love ruled
where there was only love
forever and before forever


who knew
love was all there is?


who knew
the truth?
who knew?
who knew?
who knew?
how beautiful all this truly was?
who knew?

all is only love


do not believe what you see
its just an illusion
believe the truth
the divine truth of pure love
that we and all this is and 4ever has been
no suffering
it was just an illusion
all there is is love
love is all there is
4ever now
and at home


4evr the blissful no coming no going eternal awareness
please do not let me go back to forgetfulness.....
and seem to suffer more........
But may I live in this blissful peace and truth 4ever more
alone and one
as the truly pure consciousness, bliss
i
  am


Todo Lo Que Hay

Todo lo que hay es esto, ahora mismo. el ahora. este momento, una y otra y otra vez, este momento... sin pasado, el pasado es solo un pensamiento. No hay futuro, el futuro es solo un pensamiento... todo lo que existe es solo esto...

Y solo por esto, Todo es posible......
¿Cómo podría la vida ser tan hermosa?
¿Cómo podría la vida ser tan bella?
¿Cómo podría la vida ser tan exquisita?
¿Y yo no he sabido?
¿Cómo?
¿Cómo?
¿Podría yo o alguien haber sufrido en esta magnífica perfección de la divinidad?
Eso fue solo un sueño.
No era real ni cierto.
Mi sufrimiento no era real ni verdadero.
Eso fue solo un sueño.
Fue solo un pensamiento. Fue solo una ilusión.
Nunca sucedió.
Sí, esa es la Verdad.
Todo este sufrimiento que pensé que experimenté, nunca sucedió.
Y ahora sé la verdad.
Nunca sucedió.
Nada de eso.
Nunca sucedió.
Todo era solo un sueño, una ilusión.
Nunca sucedió.
Era solo un sueño, una ilusión.
La madre de mi abuela nunca murió cuando era joven.
La madre de mi abuela nunca nació.
Como mi abuela, su madre, y mi madre y yo,
todos somos y siempre hemos sido el ser eterno mismo, nunca nacido, sin muerte, sin sufrimiento, el ser eterno mismo...
conciencia, conciencia pura, espíritu, Dios mismo,
Quien sabe...?
¿Quien sabe?
¿Todo esto fue solo un sueño?
¿Y que un día me despertaría?
¿Quien sabe?
¿Quien sabe?
Mi padre, por ejemplo, lo sabía.
Y porque él lo sabía, yo tampoco lo sé.
La verdad.
Que desde antes de que yo naciera y existiera este mundo,
todo fue solo un sueño, surgiendo en la conciencia pura, la conciencia misma, solo ilusiones.
Que nunca nadie resultó herido.
Nadie resultó herido.
Que todo era sólo Dios, Conciencia Pura, ser eterno, soñar.
esa energía eterna del ser mismo, sin principio, sin fin,
puras ilusiones
Conciencia Consciente de la Conciencia misma
nadie nunca lastimó
nadie nunca lastimó
todo desmayado en la energía del amor puro y eterno sin opuesto
quien sabe
como supe
¿sabía yo?
que todo "yo" podría ser también
era esto
sólo esta
hermosa conciencia eterna trascendente, conciencia pura
sí mismo
subiendo y bajando como las olas imaginarias en el mar imaginario
en el mundo imaginario
donde solo reinaba el amor
donde solo había amor
para siempre y antes para siempre
quien sabe
el amor era todo lo que hay?
quien sabe
¿la verdad?
¿quien sabe?
¿quien sabe?
¿quien sabe?
¿Qué tan hermoso fue todo esto realmente?
¿quien sabe?
todo es solo amor
no creas lo que ves
es solo una ilusion
creer la verdad
la verdad divina del amor puro
que nosotros y todo esto es y 4siempre ha sido
sin sufrimiento
solo fue una ilusion
todo lo que hay es amor
El amor lo es todo
por siempre ahora
y en casa
al eternidad, la bienaventurada no viene no va conciencia eterna
por favor no me dejes volver al olvido.....
y parecen sufrir más........
Pero que viva en esta dichosa paz y verdad cada vez más
solo y uno
como la conciencia verdaderamente pura, dicha
soy