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BEARCATS/Health: Nature as Medicine Webinar
Wednesday, April 15
Noon-1p.m. ET.
Virtual
Join us for an engaging, evidence-based session exploring the health benefits of nature, featuring a guided virtual forest immersion designed to help you relax, restore, and reconnect from wherever you are.
Learn how spending time in nature supports both physical and mental well-being, and leave with practical, easy-to-use strategies for incorporating moments of nature into your everyday life. Whether you live near a park, have access to a small green space, or want to bring elements of the natural world into your home or workplace, this session offers tools you can use right away. Featured Speaker: Barbara Walker, PhD, A&S '90, '94, Professor and Integrative Health and Performance Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, College of Medicine.
View the UC Alumni Association BEARCATS/Health YouTube playlist of past virtual event recordings.
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BEARCATS/Health events are open to all University of Cincinnati alumni, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other class or status protected by applicable law.
Senior Director, Alumni Engagement, College of Medicine
