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Welcome Eva!

Posted: 28th Sep 2023

Nature Studio welcomes Eva Spencer to our team this Autumn. She is a visiting Public Health student at University College Cork, from West Virginia University. Eva is tasked to develop our evaluation programme for the new corporate service, and is working closely with Rebecca so that both delivery and evaluation work like clockwork. Eva is Read more…

Innovating the studio in a sustainability framework

Posted: 1st Mar 2023

Our work always aims to be at the vanguard of original thinking and practice, and an emerging strand of working to sustainable development goals has become more pressing than ever before. To update our creative approaches and set our work in a broader sustainability field, Rebecca is currently reading for a postgraduate diploma in Innovations Read more…

Nature Studio has transplanted

Posted: 27th Jul 2021

Nature Studio has been quietly brewing a plan to relocate. For the last eleven years, the studio has facilitated over twelve thousand sessional places in horticultual therapy and supported landscape designs for scores of projects. However, although there is much sadness at lifting out our London roots, it is with excitement and anticipation we have Read more…

What is the recommended dose of nature?

Posted: 26th Feb 2018

Inspired by the food pyramid, Tim Beatley’s team at the University of Virginia have synthesised the research on our current understanding of what dose of nature is effective for supporting mental health and well-being. It goes like this: On a daily basis, it is recommended to make moments of exposure to nature, from looking out Read more…

Managing strong difficult feelings

Posted: 27th Jul 2017

Nature often inspires strong helpful feelings. Sometimes too, we can do well to turn to gardening and nature when experiencing strong difficult feelings. Overwhelming emotions indoors can often swamp us and leave us unable to process thought and feelings, solve problems, feel light in spirit, or know what to ‘do’ with ourselves physically. Then, a Read more…