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This workshop is aimed at community gardening facilitators who are looking to develop professional skills in linking environmental care and positive mental health.
The workshop will acknowledge the positive action we are taking through the work we are already doing, and will hone your skills in facilitating nature-based activities and dialogue to reduce eco-anxiety and boost mental health for everyone that engages with your green spaces - including you!
The day will be clearly structured with lots of opportunity for interaction and sharing of insights.
You will explore how to build and share positivity and maintain a positive atmosphere within your site, even when the slugs eat all your salad!
You will leave feeling bouyed up and furnished with strategies to take back to your project and keep the positivity flowing. You will also leave with a pocket guide of resources to build and share your eco-optimism further.
(Please note this workshop follows on from 'Emotional Resilience on the Ground" 12th March training but can be attended as a stand alone workshop too.)
About the Trainer
Nemone Mercer has been community gardening for 15 years, and working in mental health and environmental stewardship for 12 years as Core Landscapes' project director. Core Landscapes is part of Core Arts, a leading mental health charity in Hackney. Core Landscapes nurtures 5 green spaces around the Core Arts centre working within mental health based referrals systems and the wider community.
Nemone regularly supports other community growing projects in a wide range of areas and has delivered training for the RHS Campaign for School Gardening, Capital Growth, Social Farms and Gardens, the Recovery College and Natural England. She is a keen environmentalist and advocate of green community action for both mental health and to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies.
Where: Core Arts Community Garden behind St Barnabas Church, Access from Homerton High Street, E9 6DL
When: Monday 24 March 2025 10am - 3.45pm (arrive from 9.30am for a prompt 10am start. Please note as this event requires thorough scene setting punctuality is kindly requested).
Cost: £20 per person including tasty cold lunch. We would never exclude on the basis of cost, so please email London@farmgarden.org.uk if needed.
Saint Barnabas Church
Homerton High Street
Hackney
London
E9 6DL
United Kingdom
| London Training Day | £20.00 |
| Bursary Place as agreed by London staff (Contact london@farmgarden.org.uk for details) | £0.00 |
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