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Sensing Nature - Learning to Listen

22/3/2017

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The Sensing Nature website has been launched. It will keep us up to date with the two-year ESRC funded project started in November 2016 by Dr Sarah Bell. Focussing on individuals living with visual impairment, the project will explore the sensory and emotional experiences we have in nature.
 
https://sensing-nature.com/
Sensing Nature
​In a recent blog, Dr Bell draws attention to the work of Karis Petty, an anthropologist at the University of Sussex who was taught to 'echolate' by a participant in a research project she was running. Dr Bell suggests that 'echolocation' is an activity we could all try whenever we are quiet in nature. Rather than listening with our ears we can begin to 'listen' with our whole being. 
 
https://sensing-nature.com/news/silent-spaces
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Call for contributions

3/2/2017

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Landscape, Gardens and Health Network conference 2017
 
The therapeutic value of landscapes and gardens: evidence-based design and beyond
Penny Brohn Cancer Care Centre, Bristol, UK
Friday 22 September 2017
 
The conference will provide a forum for those wishing to discuss and debate the role of therapeutic landscapes and gardens today. It will introduce current research and innovative approaches to nature, everyday landscapes and wellbeing.
 
There will be four key themes:
  • The role of volunteers
  • The value of collaborative/holistic design processes
  • Therapeutic opportunities in the everyday landscape
  • The idea of healing spaces and settings.

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New website for green spaces health and wellbeing project

22/1/2017

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​A research project that aims to find out more about how Sheffield’s natural environment can improve the health and wellbeing of city residents has launched a new website. http://iwun.uk
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​Gardening Can Help Urbanites Reconnect with the Natural World

28/11/2016

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​Royal Horticultural Society reports on the John MacLeod Lecture 2016.
 
A leading academic has argued that gardening is uniquely placed to help bridge the widening gap between modern, urban lives and the natural world, during the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) annual John MacLeod Lecture on 10 November.

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​New Horatio’s Garden for Glasgow

6/9/2016

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Horatio’s Garden
The charity, Horatio’s Garden, has opened the second of its beautiful and life-affirming gardens at NHS Spinal Injury Centres.  With the help of designer James Alexander-Sinclair, a peaceful haven has been created for patients at the Scottish National Spinal Unit at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

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Current Appeal - Greenfingers

5/9/2016

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​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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​Lambeth GP Food Co-operative to launch a Community Share Issue

30/8/2016

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​Lambeth GP Food Co-operative celebrated its 3rd anniversary this year. A party at Lambeth Walk Surgery, together with a brain-scrambling quiz and a magnificent birthday cake, marked the event in style.

According to Project Director, Ed Rosen, the idea behind the project is really simple: ‘ to build life affirming gardens in every one of Lambeth’s GP surgeries.’
Lambeth GP food co-op

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Help our public parks

16/8/2016

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The Community and Local Government Committee launched an inquiry into public parks last month. The purpose of the inquiry is to determine the best way to support parks, now and in the future. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2016.
 
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/communities-and-local-government-committee/news-parliament-2015/public-parks-launch-16-17/
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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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Health and Horticulture Conference at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

12/7/2016

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Health and horticulture
Few of us would disagree with Lord Crisp, the opening speaker at the Health and Horticulture Conference 2016 when he quoted the WHO: 'modern societies actively market unhealthy lifestyles.' The key role of horticulture and green infrastructure in reversing this situation was the subject of many of the presentations that followed.
 
The RHS has made pdfs of the presentations and podcasts of the conference available for circulation.
 
https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/Ornamental-Horticulture-Roundtable/Health-and-Horticulture-Conference-2016

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Groundwork helps local projects to improve green spaces for the community

12/7/2016

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Groundwork
​If you run, or are considering starting a 'green space' project that benefits the local community, you may be eligible for funding from a scheme managed by Groundwork, the community charity with the green heart.
http://www.groundwork.org.uk/Sites/tescocommunityscheme
​http://www.groundwork.org.uk/carriers-for-causes-guide-uk  
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Can gardening improve the Nation's Health?

11/7/2016

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​Gardeners already know the answer to the question posed by BBC News, but it's heartening to see the link between horticulture and health being discussed so thoroughly in the media.

​​http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36675460
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​European Healthcare Design Congress and Exhibition 2016

29/6/2016

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The Landscape, Gardens and Health Network was delighted to take part in the European Healthcare Design Congress and Exhibition this week. Organised by Architects for Health and SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, the event was held at the Royal College of Physicians – a prestigious venue with an expertly planted Medicinal Garden.

Colin Porter, a founder member of the network, chaired a well-attended afternoon of presentations on the theme ‘Landscape design: nature and the therapeutic environment.’ 

For brief summaries of presentations and points made during Q&A
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Colin Porter speaks with Jane Knowles, Head Gardener at Royal College of Physicians

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​Bringing gardening in from the cold

20/6/2016

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David Buck, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, discusses the 'Gardens and Health' report in his recent King's Fund blog.
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​http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2016/05/bring-gardens-in-from-cold

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Outdoor fitness and wellbeing goes live in Trowbridge

18/5/2016

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​Hot on the heels of renewed publicity about levels of inactivity and the benefits of outdoor exercise, the first Wildfit course has been launched in Trowbridge Park, Wiltshire.

The course, which is open and free for the public to use, includes a trail to run or walk and exercise zones that target different aspects of fitness.  Each piece of equipment has clear user guidance and has been designed so to be used by anybody, regardless of their level of fitness or experience.
 
The activity trail was designed by Phil Walker at Wildfit, himself a stroke survivor.  Phil was already a qualified fitness trainer but his own experience and recovery has taught him the particular benefits of outdoor activity in the fresh air over indoor exercise:
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European Healthcare Design 2016 Congress

5/5/2016

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​We are pleased to announce that the Landscape, Gardens and Health Network will be an endorsing partner for the prestigious European Healthcare Design 2016 Congress. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for more than 300 senior level policy-makers, researchers and practitioners from around the globe, the European Healthcare Design 2016 Congress & Exhibition will be held on 27–28 June 2016 at the Royal College of Physicians in London, UK. Organised by Architects for Health and SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange, registration is now open at http://www.europeanhealthcaredesign.eu. The preliminary programme for the conference is available and includes a session entitled ‘Landscape design: nature and the therapeutic environment’. See this link (pdf)
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‘Taking a Turn’: mental health history of hospital gardens

13/4/2016

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Sketch of the installation
Sketch of the installation
​​The little-known medical history of hospital gardens has been the topic for a unique installation at the Chelsea Fringe Festival, 18 May-5 June 2015. ‘Taking a Turn’ has been developed by gardening therapist and garden designer, Rebecca Smith, to explore the mental health history of hospital gardens over more than 200 years.

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Holt Wood Herbs

20/3/2016

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​At Holt Wood we are working towards sustainable cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs. Our project is based on a two acre site in North Devon, UK which was previously a conifer plantation.

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How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain - Well Blog

5/3/2016

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A stroll in the park could be the best way for urban dwellers to banish negative thoughts.  A New York Times blog reports on research at Stanford University into the psychological effects of urban living.

​​http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/how-nature-changes-the-brain/
Walking in nature
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Life's Better with Trees

3/3/2016

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The Woodland Trust are calling for a Charter for Trees, Woods and People. Their campaign for 2016 will start with the value to nature (Spring), then to health, mental wellbeing and fitness (Summer) and then to the economy and livelihoods (Autumn). The trust’s campaign will be a series of incremental messages, backed up with studies, reports and expert articles, increasing people’s understanding that trees are hugely valuable.
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www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/publications/2014/05/lifes-better-with-trees/
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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).
The Healing Garden at Penny Brohn
The Healing Garden at Penny Brohn
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Healing Trees

28/2/2016

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Conversations about healing trees by Colin Porter

Having been trained at Kew in the 1980’s form of scientific rationality, the more left-field ideas of natural harmony or sustainability found at places like Findhorn or the Centre for Alernative Technology in North Wales should have passed me by. The majority of people I worked with seemed to be reassured by reasoned argument and, as far as I was concerned, scientific rationality provided a reliable platform for the day job. But our day jobs were only part of the story.

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