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The 1st IE Forest Bathing + Creative Writing Workshop Event!
Transport from Madrid campus to the event location will be included. Further details in the following days, stay tuned!
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Join us on May 28th to experience an immersive activity in the surroundings of an unbuilt environment where you will reconnect with nature and inspire your inner creativity. With Alex Gesse, certified Forest therapy guide and founder or the “European Forest Therapy Institute” and Jacobo Bergareche, a renowned author, scriptwriter and producer that will lead a creative writing workshop.
Transport from Madrid campus to the event location will be included. Further details in the following days, stay tuned!
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Speakers
Alex Gesse
Alex is a Certified Forest therapy Guide. Trainer and Mentor of guides by the European Forest Therapy Institute (EFTI), being one of its founder members. Alex is the founder of the Instituto de Baños de Bosque and the Instituto de Banhos de Floresta de Portugal and collaborated as a consultant specialist in the expert group on Human Health and Well-being to the Forest Europe, Ministerial Conference on the Protection of forests in Europe. Alex is the author of "Sentir el bosque: La experiencia del Shinrin-Yoku (baño de bosque)", Grijalbo, edited by Penguin Random House Editorial Group.
Jacobo Bergareche
Jacobo Bergareche (London, 1976) combines writing with his job as a producer and scriptwriter in fiction series. He is the author of a collection of poems named Playa (2004), the play Coma (2015), the children’s book collection Aventuras en Bodytown (2017), the autobiographical essay Estaciones de regreso (2019), and the novel Los días perfectos (Libros del Asteroide, 2021). He lived in Austin, Texas, for four years during which he could study the private correspondence of different authors in the Harry Ransom Center; Los días perfectos is the result of such research.