Care Home Garden & Design Workshops

“Why Don’t We Go Into The Garden?” Half day workshop for care sector staff of all levels

This Workshop is packed with inspirational insights and top tips on how to activate your care home garden for residents, staff and families. This is an interactive event that will get you buzzing with confidence and easily achievable ideas!

For full details of what we explore see our ‘Workshop Aims and Outcomes’, click here

This half day Workshop is for up to 12 people in your organisation at a time and place convenient to you. We provide handouts, a checklist tool and certificate of attendance for CPD purposes. We run this in-house for you at a fixed fee of £700* plus expenses.

For Booking Information, click here or contact us for a more information and a detailed quote specific to your location and requirements.

“A garden adventure” – a joint half day workshop with Dementia Adventure for care sector staff of all levels

This is a unique workshop bring together the expertise of Dementia adventure and Step Change design, both passionate about the great outdoors.

This event is based on the ½ day event above covering more details on why it is good for us all to go outside. Plus Dementia Adventure share how to apply a positive risk assessment to enable more engagement outside.

This event is for up to 15 people, run in-house, for a fee of £700* plus expenses.

For full details of what we explore and the ‘Workshop aims and outcomes’, click here

“The Garden as a Mirror to Care Culture” – a half day course for care managers, team leaders and supervisors

This highly interactive workshop has been developed for Managers and leaders in care settings to explore organisational culture through the eyes of garden engagement. Using our unique ‘Care Culture Map and Handbook’ tools we investigate the common obstacles that hinder stepping into the garden with residents and how to overcome these. We will explore where you’re care settings sits in relation to Person-centred care and meaningful engagement outdoors. A number of key tools will be shared, including hands on time with our award winning Care culture Map tool,  along with an outline of how to get the most of these resources with the wider team following this event. The nature of these tools supports getting the whole team involved enabling them to contribute easily to the often subtle and complex topic of culture change.

This is a half day event for up to 10 manager/ decision maker participants. We run this in-house for a fee of £1000* plus expenses, plus £76 per care setting present for their own copy of the ‘Care Culture Map and Handbook’ package to take away.

For more information contact us to arrange a free initial call

“Why Aren’t Care Home Gardens Used More Actively?” Half day workshop for Garden Designers, Landscape Architects and Outdoor Specialists

This was the question that prompted our large scale research and to which we found the definitive answer. The role of an organisations ‘Care Culture’, and our own perceptions, on future engagement levels is explored in this engaging and interactive Workshop. This event is ideal for garden designers, landscape architects and any outdoor specialists who are working with a care setting or other institutional type setting and who want to ensure that their work will lead to higher engagement levels for residents, particularly those living with dementia, with the outside space.

We introduce our approach to working with care settings as a result of our finding that we call ‘Relationship-Centred Design’. Through many real life stories and anecdotes we explore the insights from our study that supports this new approach to providing effective and appropriate support to care clients.

For full details of what we explore see our ‘Workshop Aims and Outcomes’, click here

This half day workshop can be provided in-house for organisation or to groups of up to 15 people at  a place convenient to you. We provide handouts, a checklist tool and certificate of attendance for CPD purposes. We run this for you at a fixed fee of £750* plus expenses.

To find out more or to obtain a quote for your specific location please get in touch.

Presentations and Speaking at Events

We are available to provide presentations for conferences and other events with an emphasis on sharing our research findings, and how these influence engagement with the outside for Residents in Care Settings.  We are able to tailor our presentations to sit within a wider agenda for conferences and to  support a Relationship-Centred Care and Design approach”

 “Fees are based on £80 per hour plus expenses, contact us for more details and a specific quote”