NATURE MINDFULNESS

Nature Mindfulness in urban environments.

It's more crucial for human beings living in build environments to connect with Nature due to the increased time spent indoors and surrounded by man-made structures. Nature-connections significantly enhance wellbeing by providing relief from the daily stressors and pressures of city life. Time spent in green spaces has been shown to reduce anxiety, depression, and overall psychological distress, promoting better emotional balance and resilience.

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​​Who is Nature Mindfulness for?

People seeking to deepen their understanding and connection with the natural world, heal and regenerate, tune into presence and sensory perception, intuition and inner wisdom and meet like-minded people.  Some participants join to explore how nature can aid in shifting our inner dialogue, build resilience and increase wellebing. Using the principles of ecopsychology and eco-art therapy, participants are often more capable of the expression and externalising strong, complex inner feelings through a creative, non-verbal outlet. 

 

Ecotherapy in a small group fosters a sense of community and provides additional benefits of social interaction and support.  Participants are encouraged to deepen their nature-loving human connections by subscribing to Kinfolk, where they can enjoy Greensong benefits and participate in regular meetups.

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What can we expect?

These experiential workshops utilise an ecopsychology framework. 

The aims of a session depends on individuals intent for joining a session and the goal of a specic exercise.  A particpants' aim may be to have a relaxing rejuevenating experience, connect more deeply with a local area, or trial an ecopsychology or eco-art therapy activity.  

As part of the SOS Eco-resilience project, noted workshops will focus on eco-anxiety/ climate and environmental distress or maintaining our well-being to clarify purpose, perspective and maintain our wellbing to continue to care for our natural world.

Nature Mindfulness experiences are easily repeated to deepen our sense of place and develop deeper habits, rituals and relationships with our local natural spaces, community and inner self.

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What is included in a session?

In Nature Mindfulness sessions, participants engage in activities rooted in applied ecopsychology or eco-art therapy.  Nature-based practices offer oportunites to deeply tune into the local natural world that is surrounding where we live, work or play.  Practices may include elements from mindful observation and presence, sensory exploration and perception, exploring natural entities, intuition and inner wisdom, gratitude practices, 'deep listening', and self-reflection.

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Benefits 

There are decades of research supporting Nature-based Therapies and simply being in Nature. Exposure to nature and green spaces such as parks and gardens has a restorative effect by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting a "rest-and-digest" state that lowers stress hormone levels.  The aim of our Nature-based practice is to reduce stress and mental fatigue, guide using nature-based practices to seek wisdom, improve self-regulation, restore focus, and foster creativity and/or a sense of calm and overall sense of well-being.  Ecopsychology methodology guides the session to provide an opportunity for an experience anywhere on the spectrum of sensing wellbeing benefits, experiencing insights, sacredness or profound experiences of anima mundi, the soul of the world. ​