Featured on BBC Springwatch, BBC Countryfile & Radio 4's Woman's Hour

Learn the neuroscientifically proven ways to alleviate anxiety & lift mood on very difficult days, from a Cambridge-educated Sunday Times best-selling author

Enrol on this workshop: £10

Simple, neuroscientifically-proven ways to help your brain on difficult mental health days

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:

  • A set of simple, neuroscientifically proven ways to alleviate anxiety and/or lift your mood on days when you have hardly any mental energy
  • A second set of simple neuroscientifically proven ways to alleviate anxiety and/or lift your mood on days when things are difficult but you have a little more mental energy.
  • The scientific basis for why these behaviours will help your brain

During the video I will distill the neuroscientific research showing that this set of very simple behaviours/activities benefit 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 you can help your own brain both day to day and during and following traumatic events. 

This is a workshop suitable for complete beginners.

NB. I am not a therapist, I trained as a scientist and I am relaying the simple scientifically-proven ways I have found beneficial on days when my mental health is not good. However, if you are very unwell and/or do not feel safe PLEASE contact your Dr, go to A & E/the emergency room and/or ring the Samaritans (if you're in the UK) on 116 123 or the crisis lifeline on 998 (if you are in the US).

Instructor

Emma Mitchell is the Sunday Times bestselling  author of three books, a 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.

Watch the film I wrote and presented for BBC Autumnwatch

Click here to watch the film I wrote and presented for BBC Autumnwatch called 5 simple ways that nature can help your mood.