Dig - Shelby - she/her: Okay, so today we're gonna be talking a little bit about eco therapy.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: And you can go to the next slide.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: So before we do that, we want to do a land acknowledgement. So as an organization within a land grant institution. Did the campus garden coalition at UCLA acknowledges the gabrieli now Tanga people's
Dig - Shelby - she/her: As the traditional land caretakers of avant garde, which includes Los Angeles Basin and southern Channel Islands.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: We also have some announcements. So this week we're going to be doing a bonding night and we'll send out a one to meet have the link here and we'll also send that out in the slack.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: To see what time is best for everyone. After this workshop will send out a survey for this workshop, also in Slack and then keep an eye out for an end of quarter survey that we're going to be sending out soon, which is just kind of a general overview of what you thought about the quarter.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: And then we'll also be sending out an email later on with more info on what we'll be doing during winter quarter.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: Okay. So before we talk about ego therapy. We're going to talk a little bit about psychotherapy.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: kairos made this presentation, but unfortunately he couldn't be here. So he's the real expert on all of this.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: But psychotherapy is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties. The goal is to help a person change their behavior and overcome problems and desired ways and to improve that that individuals mental health and well being.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: Next slide. Yeah. So there's over 1000 psychotherapy techniques. Some of them include psychodynamic therapy.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: Which is basically where patients talk about their lives and therapists focus on their like unconscious motives.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: There is cognitive behavioral therapy where they focus on specific problems and solving them through changing their thought patterns and attitudes.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: Is interpersonal therapy, which is a focus on changing maladaptive thoughts or behaviors in the context of their interpersonal relationships.
Dig - Shelby - she/her: And there's played therapy which is typically used with children in a safe, comfortable play area and it helps them with communication behavior problem solving skills and interpersonal relationships. And then there's also ICO therapy which we'll talk about in. Next slide.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: Yes, who eco therapy is
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: Like the exposure to nature and outdoors as a form or component of psychotherapy. So it's usually used in conjunction to other forms of therapy. It's not like used on its own.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: But it kind of holds this belief that people are interconnected interdependent.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And part of nature. So a disconnection from nature leads to a wide variety of physical, mental and emotional difficulties and it's not really like
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: Like, I think a lot of people recognize this in some form, like already. But what's new about this is that it's getting more scientific backing behind it.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And and and eco therapy focuses placed on doing an activities such as community gardening animal assisted therapy physical exercise or Park.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: Prescriptions where like your therapist will actually tell you to spend 20 minutes in a park each day or something to improve your mental and physical well being.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): Yeah, so
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): We're living the society when people question a lot of stuff. So there are little people working really hard to find a lot of evidence to show how eco therapy is really helpful thing.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): So here are some scientific backing for the Eco therapy theory. First of all, on a garden is associated with higher will be and that high will be would choose even after I just think for age, sex, social economic status exceptional
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): And there are 28 studies showing evidence of long term mental health benefits from living near green spaces.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): I don't know if anyone here was relate to the same thing but I definitely do. And third point gardening can also help with vitamin D deficiency, so
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): It's pretty straightforward. If you think about it, because vitamin D is provided by the body in respond to scheme being exposed to sunlight.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): And it's, it can also be found in some food. So basically if you spend time outside gardening or just walking around will definitely increase your vitamin D in your body.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): And there's more
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): Gardening for 10 minutes a day is associated with an 18% risk of death and also there is a Harvard study in 2016
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): finding evidence for
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): Proving that exposure to agreeing the natural environment makes people live longer, and it also lowers the rate of mortality by 12%
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): I'm just noting that all participants in the study we're women. And lastly, there's also a suitor study found that regular gardening can cut a risk for heart attack or stroke and prolong life by as much as 30% among the 60 plus age group.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And here we just have kind of a quick video. I think it's only two minutes, but it kind of introduces eco therapy.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): And you just
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Yuerong Xiao (she/they): I like blueberries. What other kind of berries and we normally find on this trail Lauren huddle in her family a day like today used to feel impossible. I have pretty bad anxiety and depression to just wanted to stay inside and not do much, and
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): It wasn't working. It was getting worse and worse Laurens nine year old son was dealing with similar issues. So the huddles family physician wrote them a prescription
Not for pills for drugs, but for a big dose of Mother Nature five times a week. Spend 30 minutes at this park near their home. Now, I consider it more important than any medication, I can prescribe
It's a growing field of medicine called eco therapies pediatrician. Dr. Roberts are started Park Rx America a national initiative, which now includes more than 50 doctors in 11 states.
Why not just go to a gym. What's the evidence behind going outside. Scientists have actually looked at this and what we found out is that moving outdoors is actually better, more therapeutic value for your health and moving indoors.
Studies show eco therapy can help patients with depression, attention deficit disorder and chronic diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.
And for kids who now spend more time than ever, staring at screens damaging their eyes looking around at trees and leaves can actually protect their vision. So how do you get the most effective dose of nature. Patients should focus on three key elements. Sound of birds chirping
visuals of trees and leaves and the sound of streams or rivers.
We're starting to see nature and parks, not just as a place to recreate but literally as a place to heal yourself Lauren huddled got her prescription just three weeks ago.
Out there, a little bit by little bit I noticed my temperament was better. And my anxiety started to greatly decrease when good health is a simple that'd be still going. Can you catch up to it as a walk in the park dr john tourists NBC News, Washington NBC News. Fans, thanks for
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: So it's just kind of a general overview of eco therapy. But I think it's important and kairos had kind of mentioned this in his slides to that it's especially important to think about these things right now as we're all like just sitting in our rooms doing online school all day.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: So don't forget to like get outside. If you can, because it does improve your mental well being and may has a question now for discussion.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): Yeah, so
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): That's all the skills that we had about the theory. So now it's discussion.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): So we're going to talk about a time like the small memory that you're in nature and how did it influence
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And so we want to end this workshop and this well, not this quarter, because we have our bonding night next week, but our workshop series this quarter with
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: This nature. Nature bingo activity and those of you following along at home watching this recorded recording later.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And I believe the nature. Nature bingo cards will be posted on our website as well, and we'll send them in this chat as well in a second, but
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: We encourage you all to wear a mask and social distance and be safe, obviously. And yeah, as you're checking things off of your bingo card and
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: Just post your findings in the Slack channel. And so there's a channel that's dedicated to show and tell. And we're thinking of using that for this activity.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: But just yeah post photos. You can also do this later. Like, you can go without your phone right now and post pictures later.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And just relax and have fun with it. This is supposed to be a de stressor, and the first couple people to get a bingo will get song picks for karaoke night next quarter.
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: And you can request which leaders sing it, but no promises, because we haven't told the leaders, we're doing this is so I'm sure they're gonna be a little surprised right now but
Dig - Justin Haggard - he/him: next quarter, we're thinking of having a karaoke night so yeah and you can also use a naturalist as another app on your phone to, kind of, you know, identify stuff and record stuff.
Yuerong Xiao (she/they): Any questions or final words before we stop.