Eco in Mind

06/02/2025

It’s Time to Talk Day on Thursday 6 February 2025: a chance for all of us to get comfortable and start talking about mental health.

Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation. Each year, it helps friends, families, communities and workplaces to have millions of conversations about mental health across the UK.


Dr Andy Mayers Mind

10/12/2024

🎄Yesterday at the allotment, we wrapped up for Christmas - we foraged for materials and made wreaths, designed Christmas cards and wood discs decorations.

We included bay, rosemary and lavender for a real sensory experience.

Getting out in nature can help lift your mood, lower your blood pressure and aid sleep.

If you’d like to join us for ecotherapy sessions in the New Year click the link in our bio and fill in the self referral form.

Or, follow this link: https://dorsetmind.uk/what-we-offer/adult-services/adult-groups/eco-in-mind/

22/11/2024

🍂AUTUMN… At Eco in Mind we like to be a close to nature as we can. We work with it to aid the ecosystem, whether that’s raking and storing leaves to make mulch - or creating elaborate bugs hotels.

It must be working because put your tea down for a second a there’s a web on it!

If you like working outdoors and would like to be part of a rewarding project as a participant or volunteer, visit our website: http://bit.ly/DMEcoinMind

06/11/2024

Our Poly tunnel lets us grow veg even as the weather gets colder… Our participants also connect with nature through creative projects and bugs hunting.

Moving soil from the gate to the plot gives them the chance to build strength in their bodies, and exercise helps with many areas not just physical health.

Good Mental health is aided by any activity that raises the heart rate as endorfins are released which in turn helps lower blood pressure and aids sleep too.

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05/10/2024

CREATING A PERMACULTURE SYSTEM 🌱

♻️At Eco in Mind we want to have a permaculture system, which means using as many natural resources as possible.

Creating compost and harvesting rain water is the basics of the principle.

💧We have set up a compost system but last week, Georgia helped our participants set up a basic rain collection system using items we had collected and saved from landfill.

🌱The seeds planted last week have started to grow and will either be grown on in the outside beds or in the poly tunnel - which in turn will provide the local food bank with lovely fresh veg for local families.

🐛🪲One of the participants found an insect called a Shield Bug, one of our Groip Facilitator Georgia’s favourites!

03/10/2024

THANK YOU MINTERN ROOFING! 🤩🌱

We were donated some much-needed roofing felt by Mintern Roofing recently and covered our shed - winterproofing it should our tools stay dry and in good condition.

This donation has made a massive difference not just for the life span of the tools but it also means that the money saved can be put to use elsewhere.

The shed roof isn’t quite finished so look out for an update next week on the finished job! 💙

Roofing

21/09/2024

13/09/2024

DID YOU KNOW❓
The absence rate of young people's school attendance in Dorset is 8%, according to the 2023 Dorset Council Attendance Strategy & Plan.

It's 1% ABOVE the national average - and equates to approx. 517 vulnerable young people out of school and susceptible to crime, violence and county lines.

Our early intervention and preventative support can transform lives and help get young people back to school.

🪴Eco in Mind, our gardening group in Poundbury, works with local schools who regularly give us great feedback. Reaching people with the right support at the right time is essential to help tackle young people's growing mental health problems.

👉Referrals to Eco in Mind is via schools directly, but we also offer this service for adults, see below: https://ow.ly/b4yG50TmtSl

Dr Andy Mayers

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23/08/2024

🌱We deliver an ecotherapy group in Poundbury, Dorchester called Eco in Mind - where we work with adults and students from local schools.

We also offer creative arts & upcycling projects too ☺️

Find out more via our website - DM us & we’ll send you a link!

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Ever heard of ecotherapy and wondered what it is? Let’s take a look… 🌱

21/06/2024

C R E A T I V I T Y 🎨

Our students are given the chance to enjoy creative nature-based art at our plot at Transition Town, Poundbury.

Focusing intently on what they’re doing is a form of mindfulness, that has a calming effect too! Plus they’re outside in nature - it’s all great for their wellbeing 💙

Eco in Mind is run for Adults & Young People:
📍Transition Town Dorchester Farm, Poundbury
🗓️ Mondays: 10.15 - 11.30am Schools. 11.30am - 1pm, Adults.
🗓️ Thursdays: 10.15 - 11.15am, Adults creative arts.

Find out more here: http://bit.ly/DMEcoinMind

10/06/2024

🌱T E A M W O R K…

Great teamwork from our young person’s group recently. They levelled an area for bed number 5, which gave us a load of clay to make models with - they used wheel barrows to move the compost.

The adult morning session finished bed number 4 - they planted two courgette plants and made a frame for the sweet peas!

Being outside, taking part in a shared activity encourages connection & the fresh air and movement is excellent for wellbeing 🤩🌱