Old Roots New Shoots: Four Weeks to Wellbeing in Nature

Improve your wellbeing and develop your relationship with nature, with OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS!

This book has been designed as a practical guide to help you both improve your wellbeing and your relationship with nature in four weeks. The guidebook is informed by ancient wisdom, principles of clinical psychology and is backed up by science. You are guided through each week with simple activities, tips and exercises to do on your journey to wellbeing. Old Roots, New Shoots also has a companion webspace that you can freely access to support the guidebook.

The guidebook explains the importance of nature and how this can help to support wellbeing. The guidebook is simple and accessible to use, and the exercises can easily be tailored to fit into your week.

If you would like a practical guide to improving your wellbeing through nature, try Old Roots, New Shoots today!

Co-founder of ROWAN, Matthew is a researcher with over 20 years of experience in academia. He completed his MSc and PhD in psychological research at the Developmental Brain Behaviour Laboratory, University of Southampton and has had positions of Postdoctoral Scientist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge and Research Fellow at the Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter. Matt currently carries out clinically facing research focussed on the benefits of nature and mental wellbeing.

Hannah is a clinical psychologist, researcher and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) practitioner, and has worked in the UK National Health Service (NHS) for many years. Hannah has a strong relational approach to her clinical practice and works neuropsychologically to enhance a biopsychosocial understanding of people's difficulties. Before completing her clinical training at the University of Exeter, Hannah was awarded a MSc in Mental Health Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. As co-founder of the Research Group for Wellbeing and Nature (ROWAN), Hannah carries out research on how natural environments can help support human health and wellbeing. She also supervises and mentors a range of people from assistant psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, psychological wellbeing practitioners, and undergraduate, MSc and doctoral research students.