It can be wonderfully beneficial to experience nature on your own or with others. Come to the woods at Rosliston and enjoy the quiet places as well as the busy play areas.
If you fancy something different, join us at one of our wellbeing activities.
If you run wellbeing activities and are interested in working in partnership with us, please get in touch!
Forest Bathing
Sleep better, increase creativity and improve focus and mood. These are some of the many benefits of Forest Bathing.
Forest Bathing is a nature inspired wellbeing practice made up of ‘invitations’ to help you immerse yourself in the forest atmosphere. These ’invitations’ encourage you to explore nature through your senses.
Boost your wellbeing. Slow down and re-connect with nature. Take time to really notice the forest and feel uplifted.
Forest Bathing is available for 1 hour introductory sessions or 1.5 to 3 hour full sessions. Individual, group, and family options are available.
‘Think Like a Tree‘ Courses
‘Think Like a tree’ is a course which helps us to plan areas of our lives, such as health and wellbeing, careers, and projects we might want to take part in but just never get round to it. We look at nature and how it can inspire us to be more resilient, cope with change, accept challenges and to grow.
You can then use ideas from the natural world to create a plan to achieve your goals, to discover your niche and to plan and create change in your lives which benefits yourselves, others and the environment.
Options: Introductory 1 hour sessions; half day courses or a 3 day course (can be split over 6x half days).
Both Forest Bathing and Think Like a Tree are led by qualified coaches. They can be combined or experienced separately.
Please contact us if you have specific requirements. We can also signpost you to other opportunities within the local wellbeing networks.
Our Wellbeing Coaches
Felicity Towns
Felicity is a certified Forest Bathing Guide and trained facilitator for Think Like a Tree. She has worked at the Environmental Education Project since 2009, developing and managing a range of educational resources, projects and funding applications, as well as teaching groups, leading a range of activities, and helping deliver community events.
Felicity has over 25 years of experience as an education facilitator, including leading community forest summer holiday scheme activities, developing intergenerational projects, supporting residents’ groups, managing funding applications, helping reduce food waste, and volunteering with conservation groups.
Her studies have included Ecology, Tourism and Leisure (Sociology), Geography (focusing on The National Forest), and post-graduate teacher training for life-long learning.
Clare Hopkins
Clare Hopkins is a certified Think Like a tree facilitator and Forest bathing guide. Working at the Environmental Education Project since 2006, she has taught a range of outdoor sessions with school groups and families.
Clare has also developed educational resources and lead a range of wellbeing activities, working with the Education team on various projects and helping deliver community events.
Clare is a qualified teacher and has over 19 years of experience as an outdoor education facilitator; prior to this she worked in schools and colleges as an art teacher. She volunteers as a cub leader, and uses her experiences with her own disability to find ways for the Education team, and groups she works with, to make nature accessible for all.
Prices for Forest Bathing & Think Like a Tree Courses
Prices start at £100 for a one-hour introductory session for up to 15 people.
Please contact us for more info as we offer a range of different options for Forest Bathing and Think Like A Tree.
BOOKING & FURTHER INFORMATION:
Fill in the Environmental Education Project contact form:
Or email us for further information at: rosliston@southderbyshire.gov.uk
Or ring 01283 535039 (Answerphone)