The importance of nature of one’s health:
Interactions with nature, such as forest bathing, have been shown to improve both one’s mental and physical health : ‘lower blood pressure, a stabilised nervous system, fewer stress hormones, boosted immune function, and reduced anxiety, depression, anger and fatigue’, the list of benefits is long, the results pointing in that direction are numerous.
From 2019… To now:
In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the RECETAS project started by taking this knowledge into account, with the intention of researching what would happened if it was combined to social connection in a group.
Now in its fourth year, RECETAS is currently running trials in our six pilots cities, advocating in favor of nature-based social prescriptions as a way to efficiently alleviate loneliness. The nature-based social prescriptions menus are co-created with participants to respect their desires, accordingly to local contexts.
Focus on one of our pilot cities: Melbourne
Nature helps us focus on the present but also has the capacity to help us remembering what is bright from our past, providing a sense of home when needed. This is particularly powerful in settings such as the one of our Melbourne pilot, where RECETAS researchers work LGBTI asylum seekers.
One of RECETAS participants spoke to Julia Hotz and said: « When the group was ending, I realised how much I was going to miss that routine of seeing the same people each week, just spending some time in nature, and feeling that sense of belonging […] It kind of killed my loneliness. » 🌷
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