Winter Forest Therapy and Creative Art Workshop: Journals and Drawing

Forest Therapy and Making a Journal for Wellbeing. Draw using Natural Inks and Collaborate on a Woodland Drawing To start, a Forest Bathing session will invite you to engage your senses within the natural world, exploring what we can see, hear, touch, smell and taste in the woodland. Being in tune with your senses can help you to be present in the moment and encouraging you to relax. Together, we will explore the woodland during winter, grounding ourselves in the seasonal changes and noticing how these feel within your body. For many, the winter is a time that deeply affects us, our instincts to withdraw inward, and we ca explore these feelings and how they relate to nature’s cycles during this session. You will have the opportunity to create a simple nature journal for you to use during the winter months, to record thoughts and feelings, to draw, or perhaps to record any time spent in nature. We will then gather inspiration from the natural world and draw expressively using my homemade natural inks. I will provide you with some journal prompts to take away for use in the upcoming winter months, to encourage a sense on on-going wellbeing through connecting to nature and gentle, reflective creativity. Our session will finish by coming together in a circle to create a large drawing of the woodland, noticing the light and dark and recording using natural inks made from knopper oak galls, flowers and vegetable skins. No experience of drawing is necessary, we will be drawing for expression and wellbeing, rather than accuracy. Please dress for the weather, it can feel cold when you move slowly throught the woodland- layers are good! Waterproofs and good footwear. Bring a water bottle and please notify me if you have any allergies (I provide tea, coffee, herbal teas and biscuits / snacks) Let me know if you have any access issues or anything that may affect you during this session. [email protected]