Green Drinks: Hug a Tree

SEDA Health and Wellbeing Green Drinks

Edinburgh

Sunday 12 May 2024

Nature walk 2.30-4pm
(Astley Ainslie Hospital North Gate, pedestrian access, Newbattle Terrace, across from Whitehouse Loan. What 3 Words: https://w3w.co/carbon.lower.handle)

Wellbeing talks and Green Drinks 4.30-7pm
(Columcille Centre, 2 Newbattle Terrace, Edinburgh EH10 4RT)

SEDA Health and Wellbeing are delighted to invite you to the nature walks in the 100 years old Astley Ainslie hospital grounds followed by talks focused on health and wellbeing in greenspaces.

Access to quality green spaces and wildlife rich environments can support health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, prevent social isolation and illness. People thrive in nature and reciprocal relationship between human health and nature protection is one that is not sufficiently acknowledged but crucial: the importance of a collaborative not a competing approach.

Our speakers will share their experiences on how living in nature can enhance lives, improving health and wellbeing of people and the planet.

Nature walks in Astley Ainslie hospital grounds with forester Willie McGhee, ecologist Jonathan Silvertown and Green Health Programme Manager for NHS Lothian Ian Mackenzie including opportunity for befriending a tree.

Walk will start at the pedestrian entrance for Astley Ainslie Hospital at corner of Newbattle Terrace and Whitehouse Loan.

Transport: Frequent buses in Princes Street for both Edinburgh Waverley Station and the main Bus Station to Morningside Road Edinburgh.

Followed by wellbeing talks in Columcille Centre (in person only). A donation box will be available for contribution towards the cost of food with a suggested donation of £5.

Please email info@seda.net.uk if you have any dietary requirements for the Green Drinks.

The event is in person only. If you would like to attend part of the event, please let us know on info@seda.net.uk. The spaces for the walk are limited.

Speakers will include:

Ian Mackenzie – Green Health Programme in NHS Lothian

Dr Michele Hipwell – Mindfulness, forest bathing and nature

Dr Sara Stevenson – The history of the Astley Ainslie Hospital, with a focus on health and wellbeing

Rachel Codd – Surviving in space… Thriving in Place – Designing with Biophilia

Dr Scott Ogletree – The relationship between society and the natural environment – Woods In and Around Town

Music from Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy with Dave Milligan on piano.

Poetry from Sophie Cooke:

Sophie Cooke is a poet and novelist living in Edinburgh. Her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies. She is now working on a collection of poems about home and journeying/pilgrimage. Website: http://www.sophiecooke.com.

 

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