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IHWTE -

The Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments

A University of Birmingham Research and Study Centre

Planned Environment Therapy Trust

Object: To serve the future of therapeutic environments through historical and empirical research, publication, education and training.

Congratulations to IHWTE Fellow

ANDREA WHEELER

Organiser of

I am, They Are, We Will Be:

Sustainability and Therapeutic Environments

Seminar

17th October 2008

Speakers' PowerPoints

The seminar explored Zero-Carbon Schools, Education for Sustainable Development and Green Therapy, and asked:

How can we build a different relationship, a non-exploitative, non-appropriative relationship to the world and to others?

What is the role of community agency in designing for well-being?

What can we learn from the history and theory of alternative educational and therapeutic communities?

With very many thanks to the speakers:

Roger Firth, Lecturer in The School of Education, The University of Nottingham

Rachel Hine, Assistant Director, Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex

Rex Haigh, Consultant psychiatrist, clinical advisor to the National Personality Disorder Development Programme, and training lead for the new National Personality Disorder Institute at Nottingham University

Gary Winship, Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham