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Therapeutic Garden Design
ITE College East
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Short Courses
Built Environment
Design
15 October 2025
This online based course teaches skills to differentiate between types of therapeutic gardens, identify plant characteristics that contribute to therapeutic benefits, recognize key design principles that make gardens therapeutic, site assessment.
Course duration: 7 hours
What you'll learn
A framework for understanding healing gardens
Characteristics of a therapeutic garden
Specific users and their needs - older adults, adults with dementia, others (e.g., users with special needs)
Other considerations – programming, design team & stakeholders
Design charrette
Entry requirements
Nil
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