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Green care: how being with nature benefits mental health

A series of three images, including forget-me-nots in a woodland, a sunset over Morecambe Bay and a black cat (Charley) sitting in a garden

In my blog for the Lancaster Environment Centre, which was posted during Mental Health Awareness Week, I discussed how connecting with nature through outdoor group activities benefits our mental health, sharing both my research and my personal experiences. In the blog I explored the mental health benefits participants mentioned during interviews, as well as a […]

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Becoming well through green care: kindness and community

A double rainbow over a green field topped with trees

In my blog for Circular Conversations I wrote about how my research into outdoor group activities (green care) supports approaching wellbeing as a relational affect and that being well is a collective effort, which whilst individualised by a person’s preferences, is shaped by the human and more-than-human relations and spaces we are each part of. […]

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