Permaculture & Mental Health
"One in four adults and one in 10 children experience mental illness, and many more of us know and care for people who do."
Taking care of ourselves is important, regular exercise, eating healthy and socialising are important. When adversity hits, though, and we face challenging times or situations, our own wellbeing can suffer. Using permaculture design can help you to find the right methods and techniques for creating your own resilience toolkit. It can support you in times of adversity, helping to build emotional and physical resilience.
Peer Support Programme (PSP)
Our Peer Support Programme is a weekly coaching programme offering 121 support on how to use a variety of personal resilience tools to build mental resilience. Using The Design Web, a social permaculture framework, the programme runs over 9 or 13 weeks.
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It focuses on using permaculture design, and nature connection to help individuals find a way forward to recovery. Techniques such as hypnotheraoy are included to aid relaxation.
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How Do I Access PSP?
You can access the programme in two ways:
*Register as a member of our permaculture mental health hub, The Harmony Garden
*Attend individual private sessions through Gaia Therapy, a private practice.
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For more details on PSP please get in touch.
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Monthly Online Gatherings (MOG)
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Each month we will be running free online mental health get togethers. This is an opportunity to meet and share with others, your experience of how you have overcome mental health challenges or find out how you can use permaculture to support your mental health towards recovery.
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Copy and paste the link below in your browser, to register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoceGtqT4uHdPoLXOGhqLLYEbzGA8PbtAZ
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The Design Web by Looby Mcnamara
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Mental Health Hub
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The Harmony Garden is our mental health hub, where we offer an opportunity for people to drop in and connect with others, talking about mental health and learning new skills.
What Do We Offer
We offer an opportunity for people to learn about the benefits of using permaculture to support mental wellbeing, learning new and innovative techniques for individuals to create thier own resilience mental health toolkit. We offer peer support in the following ways:
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Mental health support through gardening at our wellbeing hub
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121 coaching through our Peer Support Programme (PSP)
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Attending appointments with individuals for emotional support, helping to relieve stress and anxiety
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Support with official paperwork or documents, if the supportee is too emotionally distressed to cope alone
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Basic tech help - sometimes all that's needed is knowing how to write a letter on the computer or getting a laptop working again to work on a course.
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An opportunity to join our volunteer programme
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Visit one of our Patchwork Projects, connecting with nature and learn about the environment and permaculture
Referral Service
If you are in our local area, and you are an organisation or individual; you can use the Frontline service for refer of an individual or
yourself. Please use the link below to contact us.
https://www.frontlinereferrals.org.uk/
As Mental Health peer support workers we offer individuals 121 support, helping them to find their own solutions towards better mental health. This is underpinned by our own personal experience, mental health training and Permaculture knowledge. We introduce people to how they can use methods and techniques, within permacilture design to build there own emotional resilience.
Part of this support is also helping individuals to support their own neighbourhoods and communities, promoting collective mental
wellbeing. Through our Active Resilience for Community and Earth course, and using permaculture design at the Harmony Garden, we introduce people to how these techniques can be scaled up for groups.
Visit our Youtube channel to listen to our Permaculture and Mental Health Reflections and Everyday People Chats. Learn about our
Patchwork Project, using green space to provide a venue for therapists and therapy.
Disclaimer -
We are not therapists but do offer Active Resilience Coaching. We have trained with Mind as Mental Health peer support workers. We offer support as individuals who have personal lived experience of poor mental health, and resilience practice and permaculture related training.
We are currently under going counsellor training with Chrysalis, to support our professionalism in delivering this service.
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Wenderlynn Bagnall is a trained Hypnotherapist. She has completed her Diploma in Hypnotherapy & Introduction to Counselling Skills, and Diploma in Counselling Skills and Theory. Please visit Gaia Therapy for more details.
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Wenderlynn Bagnall is registered with the National Hypnotherapy Society
and a student member of The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
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Workshops & Courses
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We encourage people to use nature as a guide to help support good mental health. Through facilitating workshops and courses we offer an opportunity to see how resilient the natural world is, and how we can learn to mimic this resilience in our own wellbeing practice.
We work with local organisations,local authorities and schools. These sessions provide connections to the natural world, through hands-on activities, integrating the importance of mental wellbeing as part of any learning.
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