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Collective LIENS Ô VIVANT
The collective Liens Ô Vivant (LÔV) is driven by the importance of taking action, working for planetary health.
Initially trained as Forest Bathing Guides, Practitioners in forest therapy, we offer Interventions Founded on Nature (IFN) designed based on scientific research from the last 30 years.
In various forms and protocols, IFN are structured nature exposure sessions aimed at well-being and health objectives.
IFN support the maintenance of human health in an approach that promotes awareness of the importance for the body and mind of the link to the living. This awareness highlights the necessity of preserving the living, in all its forms, which is essential for the health of all: the concept of reciprocity and planetary health.
Our Missions:
- To propose IFN to all audiences with objectives of well-being and/or health.
- Train practitioners who are designers of nature immersion and forest bathing guides, capable of intervening in the sectors of health and well-being, but also with communities or businesses, to meet their needs.
- Work towards the recognition of these professions.
- Advance, in France, the integration of nature immersion into health systems, notably through nature and/or social prescriptions, to make it accessible to all, as is already the case in other countries.
- Establish links and partnerships with health professionals.
- Contribute to the preservation of natural spaces and their biodiversity, essential to human and planetary health.
- Mobilize the experience and creativity of practitioners and researchers to, in particular:
- extend nature immersion to indoor spaces for hospitalized individuals or those far from natural areas.
- recognize the social dimension of nature immersion.
- measure the potential impact of nature immersion on individuals' ecological engagement in their daily lives, and beyond.
Ethics: the Liens Ô Vivant collective intends to participate with deep respect in caring for the living. It also draws inspiration from ancestral traditions and wisdom, recognizing their contributions.
Team:
Jacques Girerd
Jacques has been guiding forest baths since 2016. He was the first guide in France to be certified. Initially trained with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, then a trainer within the Forest Therapy Hub, over the years and through his practices, he has refined and expanded his approach to become a practitioner in Nature-Based Interventions. These practices are intended to promote time spent in nature, whether in a sensory and sensitive approach, or in other forms, informed by science to highlight the benefits as well as ancestral traditions and wisdom. This is to open them up to the broadest possible audience, so that nature can benefit the greatest number, but also, by induced effect, provoke the interest of the widest audience for nature. For him, these practices are particularly powerful as a support for exploring and accompanying the connections that each human has with nature, thus allowing, depending on the situation, to establish, restore or deepen them, in a sensitive and respectful approach, bearing meaning and balance. From this perspective, nature offers a range of landscapes, each with its own advantages. The sea, mountains, hills, deserts, to name just a few, are all sources of inspiration. The forest, however, due to its role, ecosystem, presence and distribution, but also its use, has considerable attraction power, and can for a vast majority of non-coastal populations prove to be the most accessible. Moreover, it is particularly valuable for the health and spirit of humans. Involved and active for over 20 years in the field of ecology, social integration and personal development, he is convinced that the degradation of the environment goes hand in hand with the social deterioration of a population. Sensitive to the concept of planetary health, he thus measures the imperative necessity of a change in attitude among humans, in order to maintain a livable planet for all living beings that inhabit it.
Christine Sanchez
Expert trained by Laurence Monce in the Rambouillet forest with an approach particularly focused on health based on sensory, energetic, creative and playful practices, the notions of planetary health and reciprocity are at the heart of her practice. This implies a meaningful ethical stance that promotes both Human health and the health of our planet and living beings in general, being an important commitment and knowledge to be transmitted in the training of these professions. After a professional career as a Merchant Marine officer and then a HR Manager, these years of experience in Nature, with varied audiences or in supporting targeted groups, along with scientific references and a sensitive approach, in the line of ancestral wisdom, form the foundation of her transmission, which can only take place within a collective that bears meaning and richness. In love with trees, grateful for the teachings received and the wonders offered by Nature, she works for both young and old to change their vision and posture in the world, to become aware of the power of the Human-Nature connection and its benefits. Experience the world differently. Take care! in digital strategy.
Jean-Jacques Weyer
After a professional career that began as a teacher, then continued as a computer scientist and later as a business organization consultant, he wished to combine the joy of being in the forest with his desires to transmit and share, to explore, to accompany and guide, to promote health and well-being, and to act for living beings in all their forms. He naturally turned to the practice of Shinrin-yoku or forest bathing, following a training course to become a guide, then a practitioner in forest therapy with the Forest Therapy Hub for a year. He created the structure Hêtres et Sens to carry out this activity, and offers forest baths in southern Finistère. Today, he is driven by the desire to go further in the relationship that humans have with their environment because he is convinced that by taking care of the living beings around him, a person takes care of himself. We have much to learn and to be inspired by the way nature works to draw lessons of wisdom to apply on social, cultural, ecological, and relational levels.
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Inspiring works:
Partners
Forest Therapy Hub
Group of professionals from different countries offering innovative and unique training programs based on their real and practical professional experience and on the practical implementation of scientific evidence.
On the way to
Francophone Federation of practitioners of sylvotherapy and shinrin yoku.
Department of Finistère
which allows my outings in the Névet and Stangala woods.