Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd July 2021.
Nature-based ways to resource yourself and your practice.
The impact of prolonged overload, COVID working and the stress of facing ever-rising demands with shrinking resources, is calling us to respond creatively. This Woodland Resilience Immersion will offer you some insights and skills, and different ways for raising resilience and nourishing wellbeing.
In 2018, Westminster Centre for Resilience recognised that health professionals need something more than the typical half-day resilience session in an urban training room. Hazel Hill Trust and Westminster Centre for Resilience have jointly developed a woodland retreat programme. We have many years experience of delivering nature-based resilience programmes for front-line services. The next two-night, 48-hour residential Woodland Immersion will offer a unique combination of our teams’ expertise.
There is growing evidence for the benefits of Nature contact in offsetting high levels of stress, ‘Directed Attention Fatigue’, information overload, and excessive ‘screen time’. The pilot programmes at Hazel Hill – evaluated by Westminster Centre for Resilience – showed statistically significant impacts.
- Find peace in a beautiful 70 acre woodland – healing/nourishing in its own right.
- Try a range of ‘forest bathing’ and mindfulness techniques.
- Explore what nature’s cycles can teach us about our resilience as human ecosystems.
- Time to experience some movement, including some brief practical conservation work.
- To feel nourished by being part of a transitory community of shared experience.
- Applying the neurophysiology of the recovery response.
- Campfire circles: personal/professional stories of living in turbulent times.
- Time for resting and to share good food.
FACILITATORS
David Peters worked for many years as a GP, and since 2000 in a range of professional and research roles in the NHS. He co-founded and directed the Westminster Centre for Resilience (WCR), where he is now Emeritus Professor.
Marcos Frangos has many years experience as a person-centred counsellor and in groups working with ecosystems as a model for human resilience.
This event is being hosted by David Peters. For more information or to book please click here.