Narrative articles and chapters
by Dr. Ronen Berger
Berger has published numerous articles, chapters in books and books in the fields of nature therapy and arts therapy. They present innovative concepts, models and methods, with the aim of promoting the work of professionals with the various populations in care, education and community.
Together in the woods
The article will show how nature therapy can be used to help mothers and children at risk build and strengthen the parent-child relationship and improve parental functioning. By focusing on an example from fieldwork it will be demonstrated how nature's playful and creative approach therapy and the unmediated connection with nature can help circumvent defenses, develop communication skills and expand the possibilities of connection and the beneficial encounter between parent and child. The article is written in a narrative spirit, combining theory, descriptions from field work and thoughts of the article writers.
And the wheat grows again
This article will present ways in which nature therapy can be used to support and empower older people coping with dementia. Focusing on a support group transferred to the Veterans Association in the Jezreel Valley, he will describe ways in which the unmediated connection with nature and physical-creative work in it can improve feeling and feeling, give expression and promote processes related to imagination, body and emotion. It will share a way of working that works through empowering existing forces while giving legitimacy to regressive processes involved in dementia.
The magical forest and the healing sand
This article will present ways in which nature therapy can be used to support and empower adults dealing with mental difficulty and psychiatric disability. Focusing on two meetings of a support group held at Enosh Tel Aviv and reviewing a relevant theory. It will describe ways in which the direct connection with nature and the creative work in it can promote developmental processes in general, and those related to the right lobe of the brain - the imagination, the body and emotion in particular.
The healing forest
Chapter from the book
In the previous chapter we presented basic terms from the field of trauma. We pointed out the differences between post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, and normal post-traumatic stress disorder that occur relatively soon after the event. In this chapter, with reference to the term 'resilience', we will point out the ways in which people who are exposed to crises and traumatic events, manage to deal with them successfully without developing PTSD and / or such reactions. We will point out the significant healing potential that exists in the imagination and that which exists in the fantastic reality and in the metaphor in particular.
Safe place
Mamerza will offer a perspective that recognizes the importance of the imagination ¨ the game¨ the body and the group as key components in the development of the child's resilience and in the importance of the kindergarten and kindergarten as having central significance for its development While referring to the nature therapy program - "Safe Place" that was activated after The Second Lebanon War in dozens of kindergartens in the north and with thousands of children the article will present the model
The resilience and method of nature therapy as well as ways that can be applied in the garden will include background Theories of research references and examples of applications from the field
Nature Therapy: Integrate nature into therapy
This article presents the nature therapy method, a creative treatment method that takes place in nature and treats it as a partner in the process. The article presents the main basic concepts of the method and demonstrates its possible applications in different populations and in different systems. It shows how the integration of nature can expand, deepen and promote the therapeutic process, and what are the implications of the method on the therapeutic context, therapist position and ethics. The article presents nature therapy as an autonomous and independent method as well as the possibility of treating it as a model in the treatment of the arts in general and drama therapy in particular, while expanding them to work outside the room - in nature.
Part of whole tissue
About eight years ago, I participated in a study that came to shed light on the behavior and ecology of wolves in the Golan Heights, in order to help find interfaces that will enable them to survive and continue to exist in the face of the growing conflict between them and the cowboys. I spent two years with them, following them and watching them, letting them lead me away from human society, deep into the spaces of nature.
Internal journey in India
After founding and researching and teaching the "nature therapy" method, Dr. Ronen Berger felt that the race for a career
Wears that he misses his children and better to stay away for a while from the rhythm of modern life He went out with his partner
And his two young children on a journey in India to meet with its landscapes its people and culture and continued his search for
Meaning and Perspective Identity from a Family Journey in India
Coping through nature
Unlike routine trauma cases in which the individual and / or family deal with the crisis event, the Second Lebanon War created a situation in which tens of thousands of children were exposed and faced basic questions of security and trust. There is a need for a program that will help deal with the collective trauma that nature also shares - thousands of trees burned and animals injured.
The Nature Therapy program, "Safe Place" was written after the Lebanon War to help northern children cope with the war experience, develop resilience and connect with forces. Through today, after working with about 8000 kindergarten and school children in the north for the past two years, it seems that the connection she created, between the story of the forest struggle and the story of our struggle and the creative way she worked, helped children deal with many difficulties and not necessarily war-related ones.
To be in nature
Therapy with elderly people
In most cases, when we talk about caring for the elderly, we are referring to the work that takes place inside the room, in a closed and static space that is owned and controlled by the therapist and / or the patient. Even in the theoretical discourse, the term nature and the possibility of having therapeutic work with the elderly in its spaces receives almost no attention, as if aging is not a natural process or perhaps the elderly no longer have a place in it. The purpose of this article is to open a window to the possibility of using nature when having therapeutic work with the elderly: to emphasize unique elements, to suggest ways of working and intervening, and to invite dialogue on the subject.