Our online courses and supplementary materials are easy to follow, come with flexible support from our team of tutors and can be accessed anywhere in the world!
Learn through a range of teaching tools from VR content and films to more traditional resources and presentations
An opportunity to develop skills that will make a difference and take part in discussions and activities on a broad range of subjects.
The last few years have seen a growing interest in the use of plants and animals to support health, well-being, recovery and social inclusion. In the UK, these nature assisted therapies are known as Green Care.
As the system of primary and social care continues to face a combination of budget cuts and increasing demand for services, new models of social prescription are coming on-stream to meet the needs of various groups, including people with learning disabilities, mental ill health and dementia.
Thrive has introduced this dynamic, high-quality and accessible programme of online education to support large numbers of individuals and organisations who would like to begin using, or improve the use of, horticulture for health and well-being.
Our courses are practical and informative and draw on decades of experience of setting up, delivering, monitoring and quality assuring countless Green Care in the UK and internationally, not to mention our 20+ years of partnership with top UK Universities.
Although technology can’t yet replicate the experience of soil under the fingernails, we use films, virtual reality presentations and interactive technologies to immerse learners in an educational experience!
"The whole course has been very interesting , and so relevant to what I am doing .understanding the principles of STH gives me a greater understanding of what we are trying to achieve."
"Overall an excellent introduction to the principles of STH and exploration of what this means in practice."
"Just to say thank you again for putting together this course and for making it freely available. I have found it to be really informative and thought-provoking."
An opportunity to grow ThriveLearn’s offer. Thrive and Notcutts are working together to develop a new free to access online course to help people experience the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening and nature. This Read more...
How Thrive is developing online content for dementia care settings. Thrive has been developing training in the sector of STH for a long while, and some of our most significant work has been in Read more...
Thrive has been delivering training since 1980, offering its first course on ‘the power and benefits of horticultural therapy’, and continues to offer a diverse and relevant training programme for the sector. For the first Read more...
The Society for Horticultural Therapy known as Thrive
Geoffrey Udall Centre
Beech Hill
Berkshire
United Kingdom
RG7 2AT
0118 988 5688
thrivelearn@thrive.org.uk