Workshop: HO’PE Engaging with Nature on Our Doorstep

By Mary Attridge-Jones

Brussels: 13 December 2023

 

Introduction

Mary will create a space for you to connect with nature and to be aware of what that connection means to you.

Content

Mary invites you to an engaging exploring and reflective space activating creativity and learning by doing. Mary invites your story of transition. You may share in integrated:

• Knowledge from Positive Health Science and Nature’s gifts to us.
• Shared lived experience of resilience.
• Story time and mindful moments.
• Stretching and breathing in the moment.

What participants can take away and learn

• Skills for your tool box in daily life.
• Opportunity, Creativity, Innovation.
• An approach to invite connection with Nature. How to use your style

Why

Solve this problem... Disconnection with nature takes us further away from Health.

Improve your life... Self Awareness Self Acceptance and Restoration from here only you can know what is possible.

Please bring

• A journal/notebook and colours.
• A hand held item that brings you comfort.
• Comfortable socks/warm clothes. There will be some stretching throughout and opportunity to move outdoors.

Hope is the gift we give each other.

 

About Mary Attridge-Jones

Mary grew up on a farm in a rural fishing village in Ireland. She hated shoes.

She loves dogs and all animals and worked as a nurse for 30 plus years. She developed a love for working holistically while in Hospice Care and a further appreciation of what can be, Quality of Life and how to develop Resilience while delivering Specialist Palliative Care, in the community. Previously she has been a yoga teacher, a reflexologist and a preschool assistant. She has been married for 25 years. Along with her daughter and dog, Emily aged 14, she has been navigating life in Dublin.

She practises being outdoors with family, walking in nature, sea swimming for relaxation and is sleep dependent. She plays piano with music, to feel empowered, Sings for fun, writes some poems when words are difficult to find and can get lost in flow in the garden. She stretches often and enjoys experiencing and writing down her reflections.

Mary practices and rediscovers the empowering nature of coaching outdoors. She is a student of life and studies with Kingstown College Dublin.

Mary pivoted to be a Positive Health Coach this year. Her approach is to support growth through coaching a pathway for people to develop their engagement with Nature. HO’PE is the framework that keeps her focused.

Mary believes people need to be free to connect with Nature in daily life in order to chose and to enable Positive Health. She values Quality of Life and the gifts that Nature shares with us. She brings value to our world in need by taking actions that support the Sustainable Development Goals: 3 Good Health and Wellbeing,4 Quality Education, 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities, 13 Climate action, and 17 Partnerships with the Goals.

Connect with her:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-attridge-jones-a94923269/

Web: https://growinganew.ie

Email: growinganew3@gmail.com

 

 

Practical Information

When Wednesday, 13 December 2023 from 18h45-21h00

Where? Timesmore Boulevard St Michel 47, 1040 Brussels (map)

How much? A contribution of €15 to cover expenses including materials, drinks, snacks, etc. - payable at the door.

 

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