This workshop is an hour-long video that will be prerecorded & uploaded to your curriculum on or before 30th July. I am the author of the Sunday Times best selling book The Wild Remedy but since it was published in 2019 there has been more research connecting aspects of nature to our mental health.
During this video I'll teach you:
During the video I will distill the neuroscientific research showing that contact with nature truly benefits our mental health into digestible simple headlines. You do not have to have studied science in any depth to benefit from this workshop.
At the end of this hour long video you will have a thorough understanding of how contact with nature can be incredibly mentally beneficial both day to day during and following traumatic events.
This is a workshop suitable for complete beginners.
Emma Mitchell is a Sunday Times bestselling 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 to the Times, Big Issue, inews & Psychologies magazine.
Workshops
Emma has been teaching creative workshops with a focus on mental health for 15 years. 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.
Click here to watch the film I wrote and presented for BBC Autumnwatch called 5 simple ways that nature can help your mood.
