Outdoor Tribe for adults
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Connecting with others during lockdown
Online Mindfulness sessions During August to November we'd run an online service providing activities, quizzes and 'how to' videos to families. With support from Lottery Community funding we then moved to running sessions for two families at a time in the woodland in...
Wellbeing with Nature sessions for adults
And we're off... Finally, after many months of enforced shut-down, we're ready to start our ever-popular Wellbeing with Nature sessions for adults. Support from the Lottery has been key to helping us resume our community activities and, despite now having to run with...
Bushcraft skills sessions
What is bushcraft? Bushcraft is more than about learning skills for survival in the wild, rather more about learning skills required to immerse yourself in a wild place with as little negative impact on that place as possible. Taking part in our bushcraft sessions...
Connecting with nature makes people happier and healthier
How woodlands promote wellbeingI used to love to sing, which brought me joy and soothed my soul, in fact I made a career out of it which I enjoyed being involved with for many years. However, I've surprised myself that I've found a way to replicate that feeling of...
Experiencing nature is essential to our wellbeing
I've had a particularly busy couple of weeks involving quite a lot of office based work, not to mention a few hundred miles spent on motorways. This afternoon I spent some time in the woodland and I have to say the experience was transformational, demonstrating very...
Experiencing woodland wellbeing
Woodlands provide a natural health service Slowly but surely the benefits of spending time in tree filled places are being given the recognition deserved. No one is suggesting that trees can heal people from illness outright, but there is enough scientific evidence to...
Woodlands as a therapeutic landscape
Woodlands for wellbeing Therapeutic landscapes have been defined as places that deliver physical, social and psychological wellness benefits. A research study on therapeutic landscapes by Gesler, 1992, explored why certain places are perceived to be therapeutic, while...
How woodlands can help promote human wellbeing
How woodlands promote my own wellbeing From a personal point of view I know that spending time in a woodland environment benefits my wellbeing. Just being in a woodland environment lulls me into a calmer frame of mind, slows my breathing and my stress levels. Through...
Attending a Woodland Working Party is a great way to start the week
A friendly and supportive group I have been volunteering as a member of the Woodland Working Party at Oxlip Wood for 5 months now. We meet once a week for 2 - 3 hours and come rain or shine it's always enjoyable to be part of what is a friendly and...
Outdoor Tribe 2016
January - March Our Woodland Working parties really got stuck in with some necessary boundary hedge laying during January, None of them had ever done any hedge laying, but they really enjoyed the experience of working together on a shared task, with plenty of stops...