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Knowledge sharing across disciplines: Lunchtime webinar exploring how to set up community nature projects
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
We were incredibly pleased to host a lunchtime learning webinar on setting up a community nature project on May 6th.
Bringing together four fantastic speakers, the 1.5 hour session shared both practical advice and inspiring personal stories stemming from their …
COP26 Through the lens of disability and Inclusion
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
I was really looking forward to attending the GDI COP26 event. GDI stands for Global Disability and Inclusion and was created out of the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics.
The GDI also includes on their team, design alumni
COP26 Through the lens of psychology and faith
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
My first two COP26 talks were presented through the lens of a ‘barrister’ in the first, on ecocide law, and then an ‘entrepreneur’ in the second.
In this event, the talks focused on mental health and wellbeing, seen through the
COP26 Through the lens of enterprise and entrepreneurship
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
This was an event hosted by Russel Dalgleish – known as the ‘Tall Scottish Man’ and a serial entrepreneur.
The venue was The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, gracious hosts in a stunning building close to
COP26 BIPOC Through lens of Indigenous Cultures
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
CA bigger crisis looms within Nature than COVID
Nathalie Seddon, at another COP talk I attended (separate blog here), a professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford and founding director of the Bunloit NbS, says:
‘We are
COP26 Many lens
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
I had the intention of attending the 26th United Nations Council of Parties in Glasgow for a while, colloquially known as COP26. It is no understatement to say that I returned from this ‘pilgrimage’ a different person.
If you know
Green Social Prescribing – A Walsall Case Through Design-led Research
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
Green social prescribing (GSP) enables primary care professionals to refer people to nature-based activities, e.g. community gardening. GSP is a type of social prescribing scheme with a particular focus on nature. Within the specific context of COVID-19 lockdowns, local green
Engaging with nature for mental health and wellbeing: post lockdown challenges for green social prescribing
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic there was a significant ongoing shift in public health thinking and practice towards a place-based approach, evidenced in part by the dramatic turn to non-clinical interventions in the form of social prescribing.
Green social prescribing …
Design research update
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
As a key part of our design process, we have spent the last few months focusing our research on the brilliant nature- based, community projects that exist throughout Walsall.
We have been incredibly lucky to have been welcomed so warmly …
Environments by design: health wellbeing and place
by Mind Kind
August 30th, 2022
This paper explores the value of design practice in innovating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) – actions that work with nature to address environmental and societal challenges – in the post-COVID world.
The paper focuses on social innovation actions utilising blue and …