Green Prescribing and Nature benefits for Mental Health – with Dan Loveard

Show Notes for The Aspiring Psychologist Podcast Episode: 69: Green Prescribing and Nature benefits for Mental Health – with Dan Loveard Thank you for listening to the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast. The pandemic created new and different opportunities for us to fill our time and created challenges about being inside with people. As a result, many of us turned to nature and found surprising benefits. How can we encourage ourselves and our clients to engage with nature and what green prescribing and how can it help? I am joined today by my guest, Dan Loveard of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. I’d love your thoughts about how you get out and about in nature. I hope you find it useful. I’d of course love any feedback you might have! The Highlights: (00:28): Welcome & intro (02:27): Come and review me on Spotify! (03:31): Hi to our guest, Dan Loveard and how we met (04:04): The 5 ways to wellbeing (05:11): Activities to get immersed in nature (07:02): Mindfulness in nature (07:26): Barriers to accessing nature (09:24): Seeing nature can lift your soul (10:45): Do you have flamingos? (12:46): Having our hands in the dirt (13:36): Helping the younger generations experience nature (15:21): Voluntary role and research in nature (17:12): green prescribing to ease distress and aid wellbeing (19:27): Measuring the impacts of the work done with nature (22:28):How lockdown affected us being in nature (24:42): Nature on BBC prime time TV! 28:38): How Dan got into nature (30:58): 3 top tips to get yourself and your clients into nature (34:47): 38% of countries in the world have listened to this podcast – nature outside the west midlands (37:28): Thanks to Dan and contact details (37:42): Summary and close Links:  To check out The Clinical Psychologist Collective Book: https://amzn.to/3jOplx0  To check out The Aspiring Psychologist Collective Book: https://amzn.to/3CP2N97  Get $40 off a remarkable tablet here: remarkable.com/referral/4LJU-DJD8  Get your Supervision Shaping Tool now: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/supervision  Grab your copy of the new book: The Aspiring Psychologist Collective: https://amzn.to/3CP2N97  Connect socially with Marianne and check out ways to work with her, including the upcoming Aspiring Psychologist Book and The Aspiring Psychologist Membership on her Link tree: https://linktr.ee/drmariannetrent  To join my free Facebook group and discuss your thoughts on this episode and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aspiringpsychologistcommunity Like, Comment, Subscribe & get involved: If you enjoy the podcast, please do subscribe and rate and review episodes. If you'd like to learn how to record and submit your own audio testimonial to be included in future shows head to: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/podcast and click the blue request info button at the top of the page. Hashtags: #aspiringpsychologist #dclinpsy #psychology #assistantpsychologist #psychologycareers #podcast #psychologypodcast #clinicalpsychologist #mentalhealth #traineeclinicalpsychologist #clinicalpsychology #drmariannetrent #mentalhealthprofessional #gettingqualified #mentalhealthprofessionals #traineepwp #mdt #qualifiedpsychologist #traineepsychologist #aspiringpsychologists #greenprescribing #nature #trees #woodland #parkstrust #wildlifetrust #warwickshirewildlifetrust #gooutdoors #getoutside Mentioned in this episode: Sponsored by WriteUpp Tap to Pay This episode is sponsored by WriteUpp. Their Tap to Pay app turns your smartphone into a card reader, helping private practitioners take secure payments without additional hardware. Use code MARIANNE30 for a free 30-day trial and 30% off your first 6 months at this link: https://writeupp.com/?refid=142336