This workshop is an hour-long video that will be prerecorded & uploaded to your curriculum on or before 30th July. During this video I'll teach you about:
At the end of this hour long video you will have a thorough understanding of how collecting most certainly isn't a tragic activity to be ridiculed but instead is an innate part of being human, can be incredibly mentally beneficial during and following traumatic events and helps us to connect to others.
This is a workshop suitable for complete beginners.
Click here to watch the film I wrote and presented for BBC Autumnwatch called 5 simple ways that nature can help your mood.
Emma Mitchell is an author, mental health advocate, naturalist, professional illustrator and designer-maker. She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, spent time in academia studying molecular cell biology and was an technology consultant in emerging technologies in Silicon Fen until 2008, when her struggles with depression and anxiety led her to begin writing about the positive impact of both nature and time spent creatively on mental health.
Emma has written and presented films for BBC Springwatch and appeared on BBC Countryfile, Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Ramblings. She is a Guardian Country Diarist and has contributed pieces on nature and mental health for the Times, Big Issue, inews & Psychologies magazine.
Workshops
Emma has been teaching creative workshops with a focus on mental health for more than a decade. She taught Anita Rani to cast yarrow in silver on BBC Countryfile and has taught classes at the Victoria & Albert museum, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens and Highgrove.
In Emma's classes students learn the techniques needed to make and draw beautiful things, but crucially she combines this with teaching the science that explains why and how spending time creatively can shift brain biochemistry to improve mental health.
