Planning Weekly TH Topics & Recording Wellbeing in Gardening Sessions
with Emma Martindale and Jenny Simpson, Trellis
Members - FREE
Non-members - £10
Join Emma to learn how weekly therapeutic horticulture (TH) sessions for mental health are planned along with the use of diaries to capture participants’ wellbeing journey. The session will also include an overview of a wellbeing survey approach with Jenny, how to incorporate this into your sessions, and reports on key findings from data collected from gardening groups.
Recordings of these sessions are only avaible to Members.
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Speaker biography
Emma Martindale - Training & Standards Officer
Emma Martindale is Training and Standards Officer at Trellis. With a background in ecology, horticulture and social work, she has experience across community gardening, frontline social work, horticultural and community settings. Emma develops and delivers therapeutic horticulture programmes and training, including Scotland’s first accredited practitioner-level training in therapeutic horticulture. She also works with colleagues develop and launch the UK Association for Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and its practitioner register. Alongside Trellis, Emma runs Nature on the Mind, providing therapeutic horticulture sessions, wildlife-friendly gardening services, and garden coaching - supporting individuals to gain skills and confidence in gardening. Her work brings together people, plants and nature to support wellbeing.