News from our wellbeing sessions

Cultivate, our wellbeing and horticultural therapy service, has been running a wellbeing group at the Recovery Services. The purpose of the group is to provide a safe, creative space which promotes better understanding of trauma responses, encourages the development of stress management/coping tools and techniques, encourages healthy peer support and is fun!

Sessions have included looking at strengths, self-compassion, personal values, and compassion for others and have involved creative and nature-based activities.

In the last session residents looked at ways they had been showing compassion to themselves since the last meeting and then learnt about the amazing fungal networks under the soil.

Everyone chose a jar and filled it with gravel, grit and compost plus a flower and a vegetable seed, planting them near the glass with some mychorizal fungi. The idea is to see how different seeds, with the help of the fungi, can help each other to thrive and see their roots develop.

Everyone enjoyed taking part in the session and learnt something about the importance of everyone's uniqueness and the power of community!