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Science Space Week - Gardens and Mental Health School Workshop - Rebecca Smith
Miss M Jordaan - 13 Mar 2016
Gardens and Mental Health schools workshops 2015/16
Funded by the Wellcome Trust for the project ‘Taking a Turn’: mental health history of hospital gardens
Facilitator: Rebecca Smith, gardening therapist and garden designer
We talked about being outside, how it makes us feel, how there is space to be and run around and feel in your body and how this can help good mental health.
We discussed how important gardens have been throughout history, people naturally enjoy being outside. Good all the time, especially when you are not feeling so good.
We did some activities with our senses to help us tune in deeper to our environment.
We found objects around the garden area. We had to say what we saw and what each of the objects felt like.
We also had to close our eyes and listen carefully to the sounds around us.
At first we had a look at all the physical features of blue berries. After a while we were allowed to taste them.
Not all of us were very keen on the taste of blue berries.