{"id":250,"date":"2021-02-23T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/?p=250"},"modified":"2022-02-23T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:15:15","slug":"becoming-well-through-green-care-kindness-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/2021\/02\/23\/becoming-well-through-green-care-kindness-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming well through green care: kindness and community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularconversations.com\/research-series-young-researchers\/becoming-well-through-green-care-kindness-and-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my blog for Circular Conversations<\/a> 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\u2019s preferences, is shaped by the human and more-than-human relations and spaces we are each part of. The post was informed by my on-going research with participants and facilitators of outdoor group activities. Based on those interviews I wrote about the themes of kindness, alternative communal spaces and nature connection in supporting wellbeing. However, I also noted that the nature encountered can also overwhelm the perceived benefits. To read the blog please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circularconversations.com\/research-series-young-researchers\/becoming-well-through-green-care-kindness-and-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Becoming well through green care: kindness and community<\/a>. Thank you to the facilitators and participants who took part in my research, as it&#8217;s your sharing of your experiences that is making this research possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">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\u2019s preferences, is shaped by the human and more-than-human relations and spaces we are each part of. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1313,"featured_media":252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/files\/2021\/02\/GCWB-Blog-01-Image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/greencareandwellbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}