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Starting a Business? Start Planning Now!

Was your New Year’s Resolution to start a new business or side-hustle? A few months into the year and already you haven’t done it? Starting a new business isn’t always easy, but it can be very rewarding, financially and mentally.

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The Synergies between Horticulture and Psychology

Gardeners and horticulturists grow, observe and appreciate plant life. What they think affects what they do, and what they do affects the environment the plants the plants and landscapes they work with. At the same time, the plants and landscapes they work with affect them both psychologically and physically.

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Why Psychology and Counselling are Important in Education

Not everyone wants to be a psychologist or counsellor, but it is important that education personnel gain an understanding of mental health, and ill health. For example, studying basic psychology or counselling skills, or ways to reduce anxiety or stress or anger. Or educators might want to learn more about supporting young people at school, or students who are neurodiverse. If educators don’t understand the actual cognitive process that results in person to learn; how can they ever hope to help students learn.

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A Simple Guide to Achieving Career Goals in 2024

This time of year is often when many of us start to consider our lives and where we are heading. Here's our simple guide to achieving your career goals in 2024. Download your free Skills Gap Analysis sheet.


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Cultivating Success in Horticultural Education

Gardening and horticulture are underpinned by art and science. To really understand the garden, to make choices on plant varieties, a gardener must have solid knowledge of hundreds of species. Gardeners make choices that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but functional and productive too. 

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