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The Japanese concept of forest bathing isn’t simply a spiritual practice, according to Willis, an Oxford University biodiversity professor who shows that different kinds of contact with plants can affect humans in measurable ways.

Whether your dad is into backpacking, fishing or forest bathing, he could probably use a few upgrades for his campfire cooking.

His installation, which will include a raised walkway for “forest bathing,” amid pollution-absorbing conifers, was commissioned by Sidewalk Detroit, a nonprofit group dedicated to making the city’s public spaces more equitable and livable and with whom Weber has spent the past year as artist in residence.

Walk-and-talk therapy is just one form of ecotherapy, a category that can include different types of nature-based activities like wilderness therapy, forest bathing and classes focused on plants and the natural world.

"It involves insights from olfactory function research, Indigenous knowledge, Western psychology, anthropology, atmospheric chemistry, forest ecology, Shinrin-yoku -- or 'forest bathing' -- neuroscience, and more."