Professor David Peters and Marcos Frangos introduce the retreat in this short video, a link to which is here.
The impact of prolonged overload, COVID working and the stress of facing ever-rising demands with shrinking resources, is calling us to respond creatively. This Woodland Resilience Immersion will offer you some insights and skills, and different ways for raising resilience and nourishing wellbeing.
In 2018, Westminster Centre for Resilience recognised that health professionals need something more than the typical half-day resilience session in an urban training room.
Hazel Hill Wood is an off-grid conference centre set in a 70 acre wood near Salisbury.
The BHMA, Hazel Hill Trust and Westminster Centre for Resilience have jointly developed a woodland retreat programme. Hazel Hill have many years’ experience of delivering nature-based resilience programmes for front-line services. The next two-night, 48-hour residential Woodland Immersion will offer a unique combination of our teams’ expertise.
There is growing evidence for the benefits of Nature contact in offsetting high levels of stress, ‘Directed Attention Fatigue’, information overload, and excessive ‘screen time’. The pilot programmes at Hazel Hill – evaluated by Westminster Centre for Resilience – showed statistically significant impacts. There is a brief summary below.
Find peace in a beautiful 70 acre woodland – healing/nourishing in its own right
Try a range of ‘forest bathing’ and mindfulness techniques
Explore what nature’s cycles can teach us about our resilience as human ecosystems
Time to experience some movement, including some brief practical conservation work
To feel nourished by being part of a transitory community of shared experience
Applying the neurophysiology of the recovery response
Campfire circles: personal/professional stories of living in turbulent times
Time for resting and sharing good food
Facilitated by myself, and David Peters, who worked for many years as a GP, and since 2000 in a range of professional and research roles in the NHS . He co-founded and directed the Westminster Centre for Resilience, where he is now Emeritus Professor. He is also Editor in Chief of the BHMA’s Journal of Holistic Healthcare.
The price for this event is £290 for non-members and £270 for BHMA members. To book, go here . To receive your discount code (BHMA members only) contact David Peters using the contact button at the bottom of the events page.
