HTI welcomes, Isabelle Boucq, a French native and former HTI student as the author of “On the Ground” the new forum blog. Look for new posts each month with new topics concerning HT in the U.S. and abroad. Boucq first came to the United States to study at the University of Oregon where she obtained a master’s in Journalism. She has worked as a freelance writer for over 15 years covering high tech, business and many other topics in French and in English.
With her American husband and two sons, she lives alternatively in Paris and in California. In 2010, she discovered HT and attended HTI classes before working as a volunteer in an adult day center under the supervision of a HTI graduate. While preparing to return to France in the spring of 2012, she started a blog in French, Le bonheur est dans le jardin, to help French speakers discover the field of horticultural therapy through a variety of programs, both in the US and in France. Upon her return to France where HT is a budding discipline, she joined a training session led by Anne Ribes, a pioneer in the field, and was invited to speak at a conference on HT. She also helped start and manage the first French online forum about HT.
