Wellbeing Courses at Slapton

For wellbeing school visits please email: [email protected]

Slapton Ley Mindful-In-Nature Course Autumn 2024

Dates: Tuesdays 5^th, 12^th and 19^th November 1.30 – 3.30pm

Our Autumn 3-week Mindful-In-Nature course is a programme specifically designed to support those in recovery from poor mental health.

The course will include a variety of nature-related activities taking place around the nature reserve.

To help open this course to a wider range of people, this course will be accessible to people with limited mobility. Please contact us if you have physical health or mobility difficulties to make sure we can best accommodate your needs.

Please note that the course is not intended as an alternative to clinical treatment and we offer our courses as an aid to recovery. Read on to find out more.

Email Alice at [email protected] for more info and to book your spot.

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Would you like the opportunity to spend more time in nature?

For Adults

Over six sessions, participants will discover the value of the environment and the benefit it can have for your health and wellbeing.

Activities may include:

Listening to bird song
Guided walks
Wild cooking
Natural crafts
Conservation
Grounding techniques

Our free wellbeing course aims to help you learn ways to benefit from engaging with nature.

The programme will:

Look at techniques and activities that you can use to help your wellbeing going forward.
Give you the opportunity to explore some of the lesser visited places on the nature reserve.

Who is this course for?

We are looking to help anyone who might be struggling with challenges in their lives right now to develop practical skills that they can use to support themselves day to day.

Courses run at various times of the year, please get in touch to find out more.

Email [email protected] or phone 01548 580466

For Schools

Would you like your students to have the opportunity to spend more time in nature?

Our free wellbeing visits aim to help students learn ways to benefit from engaging with nature.

The visits will:

Look at techniques and activities that students can use to help their wellbeing going forward
Allow the students time to spend time in nature
Give students the opportunity to explore some of the lesser visited places on the nature reserve

Visits are about 2 hours and could include activities such as:

· Sensory and observation

· Grounding techniques

· Conservation

· Natural crafts

· Bush crafts

· Woodland walks

· Shingle ridge walks

· Ecological monitoring

Example Activity Plan

Sensory and observation activity

Activites will include, breathing exercises, sense of place, colour study, a fist full of sounds, explore hidden parts of the nature reserve, close up observations and texture study and team games.

Visits can be tailored to suit students

Suitability

Visits are aimed at students in the following categories,

· Pupil premium (PP)

· Free school meals (FSM)

· Educational health care plan (EHCP)

· Looked after child (LAC)

· Special educational needs (SEN)

· Social, emotional, and mental health needs (SEMH)

· Behavioural support plan (BSP)

· Child in need (CIN)

· Young carers and Managed move