Visits to Health and Wellness Centers

Using birds in therapeutic treatment dates back to 18th century England. Florence Nightingale famously carried a rescued owl in her pocket while she nursed her patients. Natural scenes and environments have a positive effect on your patients, their families, and your staff’s health, and you’re likely already working to introduce natural spaces into your facility. Leslie Science & Nature Center’s Health Ambassador Program can help you extend your efforts even farther. Our thoughtful educational approach and innovative birds of prey programs can draw people into the natural spaces you’ve already — thereby making them more effective. Our majestic birds captivate and attract people's attention. They create helpful distractions, and introduce a compelling unique grandeur because people rarely get the chance to see such creatures up close. The birds’ permanent injuries are metaphors for hospital life. They improve peoples’ empathy for themselves and others. Our programs introduce a meaningful subject and give people a moment, an occasion, and an experience that transports them beyond their current moment and into the natural world. The birds improve the environment in which people work, learn and heal. 

Our Wellness Through Nature department offers Animal Assisted Activities and Animal Assisted Therapy programs. The Ambassador Programs assist health and wellness practitioners/professionals in improving human health and well-being through positive interactions with our birds of prey. Facilitators are AAA/AAT certified.

Let us show you what we can do to help you achieve the quality of care we all desire. Email us or fill out this form to learn more about LSNC providing a birds of prey program today. 

Our Programs

Our programs can be presented indoors or outdoors, in an enclosed space, such as a conference room, or in an open area, such as a lobby or an atrium.  They are appropriate for intimate gatherings and for large groups. 

Compelling Raptors:  Baseline program providing casual interaction and education.

• One specialist
• Single location
• 2 hours
• One to three raptors

Cost:  $450
Examples: Meet and greets at the entryway, Mobilized one on one patient or resident visits

Our programs can fit within a medical model and those of more quasi-medical nature but which still seek to “affect the course” of people’s lives in a positive direction.

Sensing Flight: Mid-range program providing small group education and interaction experience

• One specialist
• Two hours
• Single  location
• Mid range program
• Formal presentation followed by one on one casual discussion
• Q&A Time
• Three raptors

Cost: $600
Examples: Specific population programming followed with  some one on one interactions

Our programs provide social facilitation afforded by the raptors for people who may be at risk of greater social isolation due to illness, age or disability.

Natural World: Premium program providing large group formal presentation followed by small group and one on one interaction.

• Two specialists
• Four hours
• Three raptors plus bald eagle
• Cyclical programming
• Single location
• Facilitate meaningful interaction

Cost: $1,250
Examples: Whole population access program, Large group setting with photo opportunities,

We have taken programs to many facilities, including Glacier Hills, Silver Maple in Chelsea, Windamere.