Education at De Levensboom

De Levensboom offers courses and workshops, lectures and presentations on the subjects of complementary care and procedural methods, not just for nurses and carers but also doctors, pharmacists, therapists and other disciplines directly involved with patient care.

At De Levensboom, we feel that it's very important that you can be sure of a professional lecturer who fully understands their subject matter and is highly experienced in their area. Where possible this will be evidence based and directly relevant to daily procedures. The course material is specially written for the various specialised fields of care used today.

It's therefore with very good reason that De Levensboom is registered and certified by the Quality Register for Nurses and Auxiliaries (V&VN), an official organisation in The Netherlands.

Please take a look at the subject headings below in the form of a short lecture, up to a complete 2 or 3 day course or company training with a specific focus:

Aromacare and aromatic treatments (examples using essential oils and smells):
- as a complementary intervention care method
- in the palliatieve and terminal care
- for the comatose patient
- for babies and children
- for people with dementia
- for people who interact with the world at a simpler level than we
- for the care of the feet (e.g., within chiropody)
- in beauty salons

Stimulation of the Senses with odours and tastes:
- for the comatose patient
- for people with dementia
- for people who interact with the world at a simpler level than we
Working with water
- as a complementary intervention in nursing
- in a Practice for Natural Medicine

The Development of The Senses and advice about this, in Care Institutions.
Herbal Medicine (Phyto-Therapy) as a Complementary Intervention in Nursing.

The development of and advice about, "a Healing Environment" with particular reference to Gardens (especially Senses-stimulating Gardens), both inside and outside at care Institutions.

In-House trainingen

Bent u verpleegkundige of verzorgende, arts of therapeut? U kunt ons ook een maatprogramma laten samenstellen voor trainingen en workshops binnen uw instelling of praktijk. U kunt hierbij denken aan een training “Complementaire Aromazorg in de Oncologie”, “Complementaire palliatieve zorg”, maar ook aan “Omgaan met geuren en aromatische toepassingen voor dementerenden”, “Zintuigactivering voor bewoners van zorgcentra”, om er maar enkele voorbeelden te noemen.

Neemt u gerust vrijblijvend kontakt op voor meer informatie. Uiteraard zorgen wij in overleg voor goed verzorgde readers als naslagwerk voor de deelnemers en een deelnamecertificaat.

Educatieve lezingen en presentaties

Organiseert u een activiteit, evenement, congres of symposium? Houdt uw vereniging een bijeenkomst? Neemt u deel aan een beurs? Doe dan een beroep op onze expertise voor een boeiende lezing, presentatie of workshop.

Lectures in and Tours of, our Educational Medicinal Plant Garden "Heerlijkheid De Levensboom".
We will be very happy to arrange a special day or afternoon for your organisation, club or society, your friends and colleagues, to visit us in Wernhout (halfway between Antwerp and Breda) at De Levensboom, home of the Educational Medicinal Plant Garden "Heerlijkheid De Levensboom". You'll be received in tradional style with "coffee and cakes" and then there'll be a complete tour of the gardens with explanantions about all the 400-or-so plant types to be found. It's a fsinating tour and you'll learn about the roots (literally!!) of medicines.
It's also good to know that all the income from these visits goes to the charity "Stichting Levensboom Fonds", that provides (usually extra) therapies (amongst other things) for people who couldn't otherwise afford them. Especially, children suffering from cancer are helped, to soften the terrible side effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy and thus improve the Quality of Life for them.

Wernhoutseweg 142, 4884MD Wernhout

Tel: +31 76 596 3380

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About "De Levensboom".
The organisation is run by Madeleine Knapp Hayes - Wellhüner. Her roots lie in nursing and she has qualifications not only as a Herbalist and Aromatherapist but also as a Hydrotherapist and Orthomolecular Nutricianist. Over the last 15 years, she has focussed more and more on working with and giving training in, Aromatherapy and Hydrotherapy. Madeleine gives Professional Training, lectures and workshops, publishes her work and teaches at the ROC in Sittard (Limburg). Her passion as a Complementary Care Specialist lies in (successfully) building bridges between Conventional Medicine and Complementary Care, based on mutual respect and understanding for the people and the organisations.