API DVRP is thrilled to work with Kaifa from Plants and Blooms ReImagined, to bring you an in-person horticulture therapy-based healing space on Thursday, September 21, 6-8pm EST @DVRP's office. Register here.

About the workshop: A healing space sharing in engaged and guided flower arranging as a vehicle for mindfulness, affirmation and celebration re: the power of choice; self- and collective care; creative self-expression; beauty and joy! Foundational to the experience will be the creation of a safe, sacred space for heart connections and shared discussion. All will leave with their vast creations. 

About the Kaifa: Kaifa Anderson-Hall, founder and CEO of Plants and Blooms ReImagined, has a combined 45+ years as a long-standing Washington, DC social service, non-profit and horticulture professional. Plants and Blooms ReImagined was born in response to Kaifa’s recognition of the need for more accessible nature-based connections for vulnerable and under-resourced communities’ most challenged in accessing gardens and outdoor natural spaces and the significant benefits derived from them. Kaifa is a staunch advocate and recognized leader in advancing the practice and application of horticultural therapy (the intentional use of nature/plant-based connections and experiences to achieve enhanced well-being), receiving the American Horticultural Society’s 2018 Horticultural Therapy Award.

 Kaifa and the work of Plants and Blooms ReImagined have been featured in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/watch-them-blossom-at-n-street-village-homeless-women-create-floral-art/2019/11/12/ffed9314-04a2-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html), the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/opinion/second-life-flowers.html) and Rewire (https://www.rewire.org/arranging-flowers-anxious-times/ ). She is also one of the featured women of color in Bloom Imprint’s Black Flora publication.