Ecotherapy Works: Recent Episodes
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We're Mind, the mental health charity. This is our channel for everything to do with our Ecominds project.
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Dr Heema Shukla from Public Health England spoke about the new public health system and the opportunties to influence and work with public health teams at local authority level.
Ken Greenway, Kelvin Barton and Paul Pulford talk about their innovative work with homeless people in east London who have drug and alcohol misuse problems.
Dharmendra is the England Director for the Big Lottery Fund. He talks about the importance of mental wellbeing and how this has informed the thinking about intelligent funding behind schemes like Ecominds.
Marina explains how Circle of Life's Earthwise project used nature-based activities to improve the mental wellbeing of children and young people in Sussex. http://www.circleofliferediscovery.com/
Beren Aldridge explains how Growing Well, and organic farm in Cumbria, has worked with health commissioners to improve mental wellbeing for people with mental health problems using farming activities. http://www.growingwell.co.uk/
Lisa explains how the PoLLeN project used evaluation to measure the wellbeing impact of their social and therapeutic horticultural work at the Bromley by Bow Centre in London.
Delegates' questions on ecotherapy and its application as a mental health treatment and wellbing service. Includes disscussion about evidence health commissioners are looking for - and the type of psychological support that people with mental health problems need whilst using a service.
Olivier from nef consulting spoke about the economic benefits of ecotherapy using examples from five Ecominds projects.
Michael gave a personal account of his experiences using Growing Well in Cumbria when he became unwell. He said that ecotherapy was a key part of his recovery.
Dominic Higgins from TCV introduces soem of the wider public health benefits of ecotherapy using TCV's Green Gym model and Ecominds-funded Wellbeing Comes Naturally as examples.
Paula Conway from Grow2Grow (an Ecominds supported project) gives an overeview of how ecotherpy is being used as a treatment for young people with mental health porblems in Kent.
Dr Heema Shukla from Public Health England spoke about the new public health system and the opportunties to influence and work with public health teams at local authority level.
Rachel Bragg (University of Essex) introduces research findings from Mind's Ecominds scheme that show the mental wellbeing benefits of ecotherapy. Keynote speech from Ecotherapy works conference - October 2013.