Category: Cancer Care

Current Appeal - Greenfingers

5/9/2016

The charity Greenfingers, that creates inspiring gardens for children's hospices, recently began the second year of its A Million Moments Appeal. It aims to raise £1 million to enable another 5,000 children involved in hospice system to benefit from the outdoor spaces the charity creates.

http://www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk/about-us/current-appeal/

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Affective Sanctuaries: understanding Maggie's as therapeutic landscapes

25/7/2016

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Angie Butterfield and Daryl Martin

This paper, written by two members of Landscape, Gardens and Health network management board was recently published in Landscape Research, as part of a Special Issue on landscape and health. Angie and Daryl's paper brings together research from two projects undertaken with staff, visitors and volunteers at 10 Maggie's Centres. It considers their experiences of Maggie's environments and the use made of internal spaces and garden areas.

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the full article, please contact Angie and Daryl directly (daryl.martin@york.ac.uk). They will be happy to send you a copy.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2016.1197386

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Michael Connors - the Healing Garden at Penny Brohn

1/3/2016

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Michael Connors, Director of Services at Penny Brohn and member of the LGHN management board shares the presentation he gave at the LGHN seminar in 2015. Michael discussed the role of the garden within the therapeutic program at Penny Brohn. He emphasized how an understanding of Ecopsychology (including mindfulness, eco-therapy and nature and soul) is integrated within the service provision at Penny Brohn. The garden, which is sustained by a strong volunteer team, provides a symbolic meta model for a ‘journey of transformation’ (the Hero’s Journey).