Wild-Ness Health

20/12/2025

Three months from yesterday, this room will once again come alive with energy, ideas and connection as seventy health professionals from across the system and across the UK gather for the second Sustainable Healer Conference — and it feels a real privilege for us at Wild-Ness Health to be bringing this community together again.

On Thursday 19th and Friday 20th March 2026, we’ll be returning to the beautiful, light-filled space of Inverness Creative Academy. Many of you will remember how special it felt being in this room earlier this year, and it’s a joy to be coming back.

The conference is curated by Wild-Ness Health — a unique collective of health professionals, creatives and people with lived experience. Together, we bring different ways of knowing into the room, creating learning spaces that are relational, thoughtful and grounded in real lives, real practice and the realities of the system.

Our inaugural conference earlier this year — held in this very space — was featured as a leading article in The Doctor, the BMA magazine. That recognition felt like a meaningful affirmation of both the quality of the conversations and the appetite across the profession for a different way of practising within the NHS.

While the central themes remain the same — relational care and what it will really take to create a more sustainable NHS — the content for 2026 is completely new. This year’s focus is on cultivating mental wealth, both for patients and for health professionals.

One of the things we’re most excited about is that we’ve dedicated a whole afternoon to communication. This feels pivotal — it’s what allows these ideas to be translated into everyday practice and integrated realistically into consultations, teams and services once people return home.

We’re also delighted to be joined by Natalie Berry, Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, who will be with us for the duration of the conference. Her presence helps connect the conversations in the room to the wider context of health and care policy, and to the real levers for change beyond it.

After the sell-out success of our inaugural conference, we’ve deliberately resisted the temptation to become bigger, slicker or live-streamed. In a system that so often defaults to more, we’re choosing to stay with what works — and what feels human.

That means gathering just 70 health professionals, from across the UK and across the system, in a space designed for conversation rather than performance. We’ll be seated cabaret-style, with a workshop-led, participatory programme that invites reflection, contribution and genuine connection.

Participants will once again be given a blank notebook — an invitation to notice what resonates for you, in your role and in your wider life — alongside a thoughtfully curated, plant-based menu to fuel conversation and connection.

Across the two days, the emphasis is firmly on what participants will take back into practice. Feedback consistently highlights the value of leaving with practical tools, simple frameworks and new scripts for helping patients make sense of persistent physical and emotional symptoms — resources that can be used immediately, especially where complexity and uncertainty are present.

If this sounds like a space that might nourish or support someone you know working in health or care, we’d be really grateful if you shared it with them.

Most of the tickets have now gone, and we’ve reduced the remaining places back to our early-bird price of £399 using the discount code XMAS50, which includes a three-course conference dinner on Thursday evening.
You’ll find links below to the programme, travel and accommodation details, and the article in The Doctor.

If this sounds like a space that might nourish or support someone you know working in health or care, we’d be really grateful if you shared it with them. 💚

Book now: https://wild-ness.co.uk/our-conference/
BMA article: https://thedoctor.bma.org.uk/articles/doctors-wellbeing/redefining-health/
Guide to travel and accommodation:https://wild-ness.newzenler.com/48069/files/6909aaf94fea8_1762241273_the-sustainable-healer-logisitics.pdf

📸 Image credit: Paul Campbell

01/12/2025

❄️ December — A Season for Stillness

“Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.” — Katherine May

This month’s A Season for Change invites a different rhythm: pausing, listening and noticing what we’ve been too busy to hear. Inside: a winter quote, a 3–4 minute self-compassion quiz, a gentle development quest — and a small Christmas gift for subscribers: £50 off our conference and online programme.

Sign up via our www.wild-ness.co.uk for the full edition.

27/11/2025

You might have seen these posts appearing…

Apologies that name what organisations stand for.

For Wild-Ness Health, this felt like the moment to articulate what has been quietly growing over the past two years.

A way of learning that helps clinicians breathe again.
Spaces where people feel human before professional.
CPD that restores hope, strengthens connection,
and offers practical ways to practise differently — sustainably, relationally, and in alignment with your values.

If any of this speaks to you, you’re so welcome here.

🌿 The Sustainable Healer Conference — March 2026
🌿 Four Seasons of Learning — now open

👉 wild-ness.co.uk
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18/05/2025

Thanks to Penny George and the Living Proof team, for providing two fantastic 12 minute success stories, capturing Charlie and Fiona overcome chronic pain and chronic fatigue.

Such vital resources to offer hope for patients experiencing these symptoms.

See link below for the website which is bursting with resources!

https://www.livingproof.org.uk/

A GP wants to change the way her colleagues and patients think about health – and many say they have already benefited from the new approach. Jennifer Trueland reports

18/05/2025

Our inaugural conference The Sustainable Healer, features in the leading article in this week's BMA magazine 🎉

A GP wants to change the way her colleagues and patients think about health – and many say they have already benefited from the new approach. Jennifer Trueland reports

23/04/2025

Celebrating Three Years of Creativity, Collaboration, and Connection

"Kath has made connections with the most extraordinary people. She is building a rich tapestry of ways to think about suffering, and how to help others—practically, and on a more profound level."
— Mary Garner, Counsellor, Liverpool
Wintering Retreat for Health Professionals, Jan 2024

Our Founder, NHS GP Dr Kath Jones, can't remember what she expected when she registered with Companies House three years ago this week.

What she does know is that she couldn’t have imagined how this venture would carry her through one of the most transformative periods of her life—or how deeply she would be changed by the people she's met along the way. Their stories, creativity, and courage have reshaped how she sees her own life, and her role as a GP.

Over the past three years, has had the joy of collaborating with more than forty health professionals, creative artists, and people with lived experience across more than twenty events. It’s been uplifting, moving, and—more than anything—a journey of self-discovery.

Thank you to everyone who’s shared in this. If you'd like to be part of the next chapter, we’ll be launching a new programme of online events this June. Sign up for the waitlist via the link below—we’d love to have you with us.

https://wild-ness.newzenler.com/register