Conversations With Svend Podcast, Maescader, Pencader (2026)

Narrative storytelling of West Wales legacy projects aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations Act — talks on nature & wellbeing today

13/04/2026

Turns out, no one truly understands the human body. Even doctors lacked knowledge about female anatomy until recently. Gene Keys and Human Design reveal that form is frequency. Experiencing is understanding.

Conversations With Svend Podcast
YouTube
COS
RØDE Microphones
Sennheiser
Carmarthen Cameras
James Music
Cyngor Sir Gâr - Carmarthenshire County Council

🌍🔥🌿❤️ KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️🔥🌍
🎬✨ CWS — DEEP DIVE NATURE TALKS 🎥🌊

We are deeply appreciative of the outstanding, pioneering and visionary work of Angie Darlington and Shôn Devey at West Wales Action for Mental Health 💚🌿

They are both pivotal in supporting Caitlin and I as we are progressing with Hannah Brigham, Becky Brandwood-Cormack, Alison Moore (Coed Lleol / Small Woods), Joe Monks, Matt Lister (Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum), and many others in submitting our Awards for All application for Kindling Humanity: Stories of Growth 🌱🔥 seeds are in the ground and we are kindling the flames 🔥 of inspiration and flow… 🌊✨

We are working alongside James Moore (Mortawel Consultancy) and Professor Wendy Dearing (UWTSD — Centre for Social Innovation) 🎓📚

📍 Across Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire we’re bringing:
🌊 Freediving with Celtic Deep (Emma Williams, Richard Rees-Khan & crew) 🌊🐚
🏊 Wild swimming with Sue Christopher & Travis Christopher (Wild Swim Wales) 🏊💙
🏖️ Mindfulness & ❤️ heartwarming, he-artfulness & beach-based nature wellbeing with Leanne Bird (Find Blue Freedom) & Sue Christopher 🌅💛
🌿 Cynefin Green Health Hub sessions with Tara Crank, Becky Brandwood-Cormack & Maïa Sparrow (Aderyn) 🌿🕊️

🎥 Storytelling team emerging:
Lucy Rose 🌹 Davies • Caitlin • (fingers crossed 🤞) Gus Yeulet 🎧🎶

📺 Tune into our Deep Dive Nature Talks & CWS podcast 🎬📡

🤝 We are team workers — reaching out with love ❤️ for a prosperous, resilient, healthy Wales 🐉
Aligning with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act ⚖️
➡️ Prevention • Collaboration • Social Innovation 🌱🤝

🙏 Thank you to everyone at WWAMH 💚
🌺 And for the nature facilitation networking sessions at the National Botanic Garden of Wales 🌸🌿

Also acknowledging:
🌿 Andrew Dugmore (Reconnect in Nature)
🌍 ECPR community & Dan Fisher 🇺🇸
🐎 Lara of Pegasus Wales (via James Moore)

💬 Our health is our wealth 💚
🌱 As we learn from nature, we honour our responsibility to nature 🌍

“We have not come despite the crisis —
🔥 we have come because of it”

“We ask not what nature can do for us…
🌍 we ask what we can do for nature”

Because we are nature - we are remembering that we are nature 🌿

🐉 Cymru is community 🐉
🤝 Local → Global unity 🌍
🔥 Kindling community • prosperity • love ❤️

Inspired by fire-making, land, and connection —
thank you to the Glasbren community & Tara Crank 🌿🔥

❤️ Kindling Humanity — Stories of Growth
🎬 Join our journey - be part of our narrative evolving journey 🎥✨
https://youtube.com/?si=0ZNzXXBwA5pvI6F5

🔥🌿❤️ KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️🔥
🎬✨ CWS — DEEP DIVE NATURE TALKS 🎥

A living documentary and storytelling project rooted in Wales — exploring nature, wellbeing, community, prosperity, and how we live well together 🌍🌿

We are acting as Project Ambassadors with:
Coed Lleol / Small Woods 🌲
The National Lottery Community Fund (Awards for All — application submitted 🌱 seeds in the ground, kindling the flames 🔥 of community)
Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum 🌊

The economy of kindness • Proactive compassion • The currency of friendliness ❤️
It takes a village to raise a child • Nature & nurture • The power of structure 🌿
Cymru is community 🐉

We are supporting and documenting:
🌿 Nature-based wellbeing
🌊 Blue & Green Social Prescribing
🤝 Community resilience
🧠 Prevention in action

Bridging:
education 🎓 • science 🔬 • health 🫀 • research 📊 • media 🎥 • storytelling 🎙️ • creativity 🎨

🌍 WELLBEING & FUTURE GENERATIONS

Aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act:
Healthier Wales • More Equal Wales • Resilient Wales
Prosperous Wales • Cohesive Communities • Vibrant Culture • Global Responsibility

Prevention • Integration • Involvement • Collaboration • Long-term thinking
Connect • Take Notice • Learn • Give • Be Active 🌱

Prosperity, wellbeing, and prevention are inseparable 🌿

🌲 NATURE AS MEDICINE • CYMRU 🌿

In collaboration with:
Coed Lleol / Small Woods
Cynefin Green Health Hub
Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum
Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project
Celtic Deep • Wild Swim Wales • Find Blue Freedom
West Wales Action for Mental Health
University of Wales Trinity Saint David 🎓

Nature-based prevention restores dignity and reduces long-term cost 🌿

🌊 “You cannot control the waves, but you can learn how to surf” 🌊

(SPAN Arts — Love Stories to Nature application submitted)

🎬 FILM & COMMUNITY — 2026 🎥

• Blue & Green Prescription sessions
• Community wellbeing in practice
• Creative + academic collaboration

Core team:
Caitlin Longden • Lucy Rose Davies • Gus Yeulet • Svend Emil Jacobsen

📣 NEXT PODCAST & COMMUNITY INVITE — MAY

With Lara of Pegasus Wales 🐎 — fundraising for the Welsh Air Ambulance 🚁
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/pegasusperformance.wales/

📅 2nd May — walk up Pen Y Fan ⛰️
Join if it resonates ❤️

🎥 TESTIMONIALS WELCOME

If you’ve taken part in Outdoor Health sessions in Pembrokeshire or at the Cynefin Green Health Hub (Carmarthen), share a short video 🎬

📧 matt.lister@pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk
📧 alisonmoore@smallwoods.org.uk

Your voice demonstrates the real impact of community-powered wellbeing 🌿

🤝 SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIP — WIN-WIN

We are building aligned sponsorships and partnerships that directly support delivery on the ground 🌍

Examples:
Marks & Spencer Food — providing food for community sessions 🥗
Finisterre • Patagonia — outdoor clothing 🌊
Vivobarefoot • Earth Runners — movement & connection 👣
Dryrobe — post-water warmth
COS — functional design

Creative partners:
DJI • GoPro — filming 🎥
RØDE • Sennheiser — audio 🎙️
Carmarthen Cameras • James Music

Public partners:
Carmarthenshire County Council • Pembrokeshire County Council

➡️ Not generic sponsorship — direct impact
supporting sessions • supporting people • supporting community wellbeing

🐉 CYMRU — COMMUNITY, BELONGING, PLACE 🐉

Cymru → Cymry → people of the land together
Hiraeth • Cynefin 🌿

🌍🔥 THE QUESTION

Could Wales lead the way in integrating
nature-based wellbeing + social prescribing
into real systems of support?

🏥 Prevention over cure
🌿 Nature as medicine
🤝 Community as infrastructure

🌊🎬 KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH

Telling the stories
Building the bridges
Documenting the shift

🏴🐉🔥 WILL YOU JOIN US?

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svend-emil-jacobsen
📸 Instagram:

A healthier, fairer, more resilient Wales — one story at a time ❤️

https://youtube.com/?si=0ZNzXXBwA5pvI6F5

13/04/2026

🌍🔥 KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️

CWS is a community-led platform bringing together storytellers, filmmakers, social prescribing practitioners, nature activity leaders, marine biology organisations, local authorities, health boards & universities to co-create a new approach to wellbeing.

We document a paradigm shift → narrative storytelling 🎥 + analytical data 📊 amplifying real transformation and the power of community structures.

🏴🐉 West Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(Cymru) — Pembrokeshire 🌊 to Carmarthenshire 🌿 — is creating models for sustainable wellbeing.

🔥 Will this lead to systemic change?
🏛️ Will Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Government, local authorities & health boards recognise this opportunity?
🐉 Will we create a Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 legacy aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations Act, Hiraeth, Cynefin & Cymru as community?

💰 If money can be saved → it can be made
Money as a tool for collaboration • investing in prevention

🌿 CWS Project Ambassadors
Coed Lleol • • Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum

🌊 DELIVERY
Celtic Deep • Wild Swim Wales • Find Blue Freedom • Cynefin Green Health Hub • WWAMH • UWTSD

🎬 TEAM
Caitlin Longden • Lucy Rose Davies • Gus Yeulet • Svend Emil Jacobsen

🤝 SPONSORS & COLLABORATORS — WORK WITH US
Win • win • win • win • win
We provide value • reach • impact

🌱 Kindness • compassion • friendliness
🏗️ Structure • community • Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🐉

🧠 Five Ways of Working → Prevention • Collaboration • Involvement • Integration • Long-term
🌿 5 Ways to Wellbeing → Connect • Be Active • Take Notice • Learn • Give

🎬 Film → bridge • 🌿 Nature → system change

🎬 SPAN Arts application — Lucy • Caitlin • Svend
🌊 “You cannot control the waves → learn to surf”

🔥 Join us → be the shift

🌍🔥🌿❤️ KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️🔥🌍
🎬✨ CWS — DEEP DIVE NATURE TALKS 🎥🌊

Thank you to Hannah Brigham, Becky Brandwood-Cormack, and Alison Moore for teamwork, collaboration, and putting forward the community-led Awards for All application for our project Kindling Humanity: Stories of Growth — amplifying and sharing the voices of people participating across West Wales, greater Wales, and the British Isles for a preventative paradigm shift in how we relate with the natural world 🌿🔥

We are deeply appreciative of the outstanding, pioneering and visionary work of Angie Darlington and Shôn Devey at West Wales Action for Mental Health 💚🌿

They are both pivotal in supporting Caitlin and I as we are progressing with Hannah Brigham, Becky Brandwood-Cormack, Alison Moore (Coed Lleol / Small Woods), Joe Monks, Matt Lister (Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum), and many others in submitting our Awards for All application for Kindling Humanity: Stories of Growth 🌱🔥 seeds are in the ground and we are kindling the flames 🔥 of inspiration and flow… 🌊✨

We are working alongside James Moore (Mortawel Consultancy) and Professor Wendy Dearing (UWTSD — Centre for Social Innovation) 🎓📚

📍 Across Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire we’re bringing:
🌊 Freediving with Celtic Deep (Emma Williams, Richard Rees-Khan & crew) 🌊🐚
🏊 Wild swimming with Sue Christopher & Travis Christopher (Wild Swim Wales) 🏊💙
🏖️ Mindfulness & ❤️ heartwarming, he-artfulness & beach-based nature wellbeing with Leanne Bird (Find Blue Freedom) & Sue Christopher 🌅💛
🌿 Cynefin Green Health Hub sessions with Tara Crank, Becky Brandwood-Cormack & Maïa Sparrow (Aderyn) 🌿🕊️

🎥 Storytelling team emerging:
Lucy Rose 🌹 Davies • Caitlin • (fingers crossed 🤞) Gus Yeulet 🎧🎶

📺 Tune into our Deep Dive Nature Talks & CWS podcast 🎬📡

🤝 We are team workers — reaching out with love ❤️ for a prosperous, resilient, healthy Wales 🐉
Aligning with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 ⚖️
➡️ Prevention • Collaboration • Social Innovation 🌱🤝

🙏 Thank you to everyone at WWAMH 💚
🌺 And for the nature facilitation networking sessions at the National Botanic Garden of Wales 🌸🌿

Also acknowledging:
🌿 Andrew Dugmore (Reconnect in Nature)
🌍 ECPR community & Dan Fisher 🇺🇸
🐎 Lara of Pegasus Wales (via James Moore)

💬 Our health is our wealth 💚
🌱 As we learn from nature, we honour our responsibility to nature 🌍

“We have not come despite the crisis —
🔥 we have come because of it”

“We ask not what nature can do for us…
🌍 we ask what we can do for nature”

Because we are nature - we are remembering that we are nature 🌿

🐉 Cymru is community 🐉
🤝 Local → Global unity 🌍
🔥 Kindling community • prosperity • love ❤️

Inspired by fire-making, land, and connection —
thank you to the Glasbren community & Tara Crank 🌿🔥

❤️ Kindling Humanity — Stories of Growth
🎬 Join our journey - be part of our narrative evolving journey 🎥✨
https://youtube.com/?si=0ZNzXXBwA5pvI6F5

🔥🌿❤️ KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️🔥
🎬✨ CWS — DEEP DIVE NATURE TALKS 🎥

A living documentary and storytelling project rooted in Wales — exploring nature, wellbeing, community, prosperity, and how we live well together 🌍🌿

We are acting as Project Ambassadors with:
Coed Lleol / Small Woods 🌲
The National Lottery Community Fund (Awards for All — application submitted 🌱 seeds in the ground, kindling the flames 🔥 of community)
Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum 🌊

The economy of kindness • Proactive compassion • The currency of friendliness ❤️
It takes a village to raise a child • Nature & nurture • The power of structure 🌿
Cymru is community 🐉

We are supporting and documenting:
🌿 Nature-based wellbeing
🌊 Blue & Green Social Prescribing
🤝 Community resilience
🧠 Prevention in action

Bridging:
education 🎓 • science 🔬 • health 🫀 • research 📊 • media 🎥 • storytelling 🎙️ • creativity 🎨

🌍 WELLBEING & FUTURE GENERATIONS

Aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015:
Healthier Wales • More Equal Wales • Resilient Wales
Prosperous Wales • Cohesive Communities • Vibrant Culture • Global Responsibility

Prevention • Integration • Involvement • Collaboration • Long-term thinking
Connect • Take Notice • Learn • Give • Be Active 🌱

Prosperity, wellbeing, and prevention are inseparable 🌿

🌲 NATURE AS MEDICINE • CYMRU 🌿

In collaboration with:
Coed Lleol / Small Woods
Cynefin Green Health Hub
Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum
Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project
Celtic Deep • Wild Swim Wales • Find Blue Freedom
West Wales Action for Mental Health
University of Wales Trinity Saint David 🎓

Nature-based prevention restores dignity and reduces long-term cost 🌿

🌊 “You cannot control the waves, but you can learn how to surf” 🌊

(SPAN Arts — Love Stories to Nature application submitted)

🎬 FILM & COMMUNITY — 2026 🎥

• Blue & Green Prescription sessions
• Community wellbeing in practice
• Creative + academic collaboration

Core team:
Caitlin Longden • Lucy Rose Davies • Gus Yeulet • Svend Emil Jacobsen

📣 NEXT PODCAST & COMMUNITY INVITE — MAY

With Lara of Pegasus Wales 🐎 — fundraising for the Welsh Air Ambulance 🚁
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/pegasusperformance.wales/

📅 2nd May — walk up Pen Y Fan ⛰️
Join if it resonates ❤️

🎥 TESTIMONIALS WELCOME

If you’ve taken part in Outdoor Health sessions in Pembrokeshire or at the Cynefin Green Health Hub (Carmarthen), share a short video 🎬

📧 matt.lister@pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk
📧 alisonmoore@smallwoods.org.uk

Your voice demonstrates the real impact of community-powered wellbeing 🌿

🤝 SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIP — WIN-WIN

We are building aligned sponsorships and partnerships that directly support delivery on the ground 🌍

Examples:
Marks & Spencer Food — providing food for community sessions 🥗
Finisterre • Patagonia — outdoor clothing 🌊
Vivobarefoot • Earth Runners — movement & connection 👣
Dryrobe — post-water warmth
COS — functional design

Creative partners:
DJI • GoPro — filming 🎥
RØDE • Sennheiser — audio 🎙️
Carmarthen Cameras • James Music

Public partners:
Carmarthenshire County Council • Pembrokeshire County Council

➡️ Not generic sponsorship — direct impact
supporting sessions • supporting people • supporting community wellbeing

🐉 CYMRU 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 — COMMUNITY, BELONGING, PLACE 🐉

Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 → Cymry → people of the land together
Hiraeth • Cynefin 🌿

🌍🔥 THE QUESTION

Could Wales lead the way in integrating
nature-based wellbeing + social prescribing
into real systems of support?

🏥 Prevention over cure
🌿 Nature as medicine
🤝 Community as infrastructure

🌊🎬 KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH

Telling the stories
Building the bridges
Documenting the shift

🏴🐉🔥 WILL YOU JOIN US?

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svend-emil-jacobsen
📸 Instagram:

A healthier, fairer, more resilient Wales — one story at a time ❤️

https://youtube.com/?si=0ZNzXXBwA5pvI6F5

13/04/2026

🌍🔥 KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️�CWS are Project Ambassadors with Coed Lleol, , Awards for All, Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum �The economy of kindness • Proactive compassion • The currency of friendliness ❤️�It takes a village to raise a child • Nature & nurture • The power of structure�Cymru is community 🐉
📣 NEXT PODCAST & COMMUNITY INVITE (MAY)�Next episode in May with Lara of Pegasus Wales 🐎 — fundraising for the Welsh Air Ambulance 🚁�🔗 https://www.instagram.com/pegasusperformance.wales/�📅 2nd May (my birthday) — we’re planning a walk up Pen Y Fan ⛰️�If you’d like to join, feel free to get in touch ❤️
🎥 SHARE YOUR VOICE — TESTIMONIALS WELCOME�If you’ve taken part in Outdoor Health sessions in Pembrokeshire or at the Cynefin Green Health Hub (Carmarthen), you’re warmly invited to share a short video testimonial 🎬�You can send directly to:�📧 matt.lister@pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk�📧 alisonmoore@smallwoods.org.uk�Or share with us via CWS�Your voice helps demonstrate the real impact of nature-based wellbeing 🌿
🤝 SPONSORS & COLLABORATION INVITATIONS�Marks & Spencer Food • Finisterre • Patagonia • Vivobarefoot • Earth Runners • Dryrobe • COS �DJI • GoPro • RØDE • Sennheiser • Carmarthen Cameras • James Music�Bulletproof Excel • KetoSource �Carmarthenshire County Council • Pembrokeshire County Council�Open to aligned partners, councils, universities, and collaborators
🌿 CONVERSATIONS WITH SVEND�Nature • Relating • Conscious Sexuality • Money • Prosperity • Community • Wellbeing�A living podcast, documentary, and community project rooted in Wales and reaching globally�CWS explores what it truly means to live well — individually, collectively, ecologically, and economically — in times of profound transition�Through real, long-form conversations, this channel bridges nature as medicine, social prescribing, relating and intimacy, financial literacy, conscious sexuality, community resilience, and creative storytelling — grounded in lived experience ❤️�Bridging worlds: education 🎓 • science 🔬 • common sense • narrative & storytelling 🎙️ • health 🫀 • media 🎥 • creativity 🎨 • arts & crafts 🧵 • research 📊
🌍 WELLBEING, PROSPERITY & FUTURE GENERATIONS�Aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 through lived practice�🧠 Healthier Wales • 🤝 More Equal Wales • 🌱 Resilient Wales • 💰 Prosperous Wales • 🏘 Cohesive Communities • 🎭 Vibrant Culture • 🌍 Global Responsibility�The Five Ways of Working:�• Prevention • Integration • Involvement • Collaboration • Long-term thinking�5 Ways to Wellbeing in practice:�Connect • Take Notice • Learn • Give • Be Active�Teamwork in action:�Forming • Storming • Norming • Performing�Prosperity, wellbeing, and prevention are inseparable
🌲 NATURE AS MEDICINE • WALES (CYMRU)�🎬 Deep Dive Nature Talks | Kindling Humanity — STORIES OF GROWTH�In collaboration with�• Coed Lleol / Small Woods • Cynefin Green Health Hub • Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum�• Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project�🔗 https://www.pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk/projects/pembrokeshire-outdoor-health-project/�— Celtic Deep • Wild Swim Wales • Find Your Blue / Blue Freedom�• West Wales Action for Mental Health • University of Wales Trinity Saint David �Nature-based prevention restores dignity and reduces long-term cost 🌿�🎬 Films�https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8MyVzOU3c�https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFIhORNL5EU�🌊 “You cannot control the waves, but you can learn how to surf”�(SPAN Arts — Love Stories to Nature application)

CYMRU (Wales) — meaning & cultural note�Cymru (Welsh: /ˈkəm.rɨ/) is the Welsh name for Wales.�It comes from “Cymry”, meaning “fellow countrymen / compatriots” — from the Brythonic “combrogi” (com- = together, brogi = land/territory).�At its root, Cymru expresses a sense of shared belonging — people of the same land, in relationship with place and each other.�➡️ Often interpreted in modern context as:�“community, belonging, and collective identity rooted in land.”

🎥 FILM, STORY & COLLABORATION (2026)�• Blue & Green Prescription sessions • Community wellbeing in practice • Creative + academic collaboration�Embedding learning through doing, documenting, and sharing 🌍�Core team�Caitlin Longden • Lucy Rose Davies • Gus Yeulet • Svend Emil Jacobsen�Awaiting Awards for All decision (~£20,000)�🎬 For those interested in adventure filmmaking & storytelling, there may be opportunities to get involved, learn, and contribute as part of this evolving work
🧬 GENE KEYS & CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION�• Shadow → Gift → Siddhi • Integration into daily life & service�🔗 https://home.genekeys.com/
💞 RELATING, LOVE & HUMAN CONNECTION�With Shelley J Whitehead�• Love as a learnable skill ❤️ • Secure attachment • Neurodivergent relating�🔗 https://shelleyjwhitehead.com/
💰 MONEY, FREEDOM & PROSPERITY�With James Coursier (The Money Paradox)�• Financial literacy • Values-aligned living • Sustainable prosperity
🔥 CONSCIOUS SEXUALITY & EMBODIMENT�With Jem Ayres�• Embodiment • Trauma-informed sexuality • Consent & vitality�🔗 https://jemayres.co.uk/�Return to Innocense and love with Kerry & Pablo ❤️�Annual July, Fforest, Wales retreats�🔗 https://thesacredbreath.co.uk/warm-water-birth-to-rebirth-retreats/
💛 A LIVED COMMITMENT�• Prevention works • Collaboration works • Prosperity can be ethical • Community is medicine
🤝 JOIN THE COMMUNITY�• Subscribe • Share • Comment • Apply to be a guest • Collaborate • Support�🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svend-emil-jacobsen�📸 Instagram: �A healthier, fairer, resilient Wales — one conversation at a time ❤️

🐉 CYMRU — Welsh Legacy & Living Question
CYMRU (Wales) — from Cymry (“fellow countrymen”)�Root: combrogi → com (together) + bro (land)
➡️ A people of the land — in relationship, in community, in belonging
In modern context:�Community • Belonging • Collective identity rooted in place

🌿🔥 WELSH LEGACY — HIRAETH & CYNEFIN
• Hiraeth → a deep longing, emotional connection to land, memory, and identity�• Cynefin → habitat, place of belonging, the environment where we naturally thrive
➡️ These are not just words —�they are living frameworks for wellbeing, culture, and identity
🎙️ Explore further in our Deep Dive Nature Talks�(featuring Shôn Devey & Andrew Dugmore) for deeper Welsh context

🌍🔥 THE QUESTION WE ARE ASKING
Could Wales (Cymru) become:
➡️ The first nation in the British Isles�to fully integrate�social prescribing + nature-based wellbeing�into national health systems?

🏥🌿 A WELSH LEGACY IN THE MAKING
• Prevention over cure�• Community as infrastructure�• Nature as medicine
Aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
➡️ A shift toward:�Long-term thinking • Collaboration • Integration • Involvement

🔥🤝 AN OPEN INVITATION
Will:
• Welsh Government engage?�• Local authorities collaborate?�• Health boards recognise the opportunity —�both human and economic?

🌊🎬 KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH
We are:
• Telling the stories�• Building the bridges�• Documenting the shift
➡️ A living, evolving paradigm
Community in action.�People in relationship.�Stories becoming change.

🏴🐉🔥 WILL YOU JOIN US?

12/04/2026

Historically, women lacked autonomy, a reality still present globally. Yet, younger generations are spearheading change. Boundaries are key—they aren't barriers, but essential foundations for a new era.

Conversations With Svend Podcast
YouTube
DJI
COS
Vivobarefoot

🌍🔥🌿❤️ KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️🔥🌍
🎬✨ CWS — DEEP DIVE NATURE TALKS 🎥🌊

We are deeply appreciative of the outstanding, pioneering and visionary work of Angie Darlington and Shôn Devey at West Wales Action for Mental Health 💚🌿

They are both pivotal in supporting Caitlin and I as we are progressing with Hannah Brigham, Becky Brandwood-Cormack, Alison Moore (Coed Lleol / Small Woods), Joe Monks, Matt Lister (Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum), and many others in submitting our Awards for All application for Kindling Humanity: Stories of Growth 🌱🔥 seeds are in the ground and we are kindling the flames 🔥 of inspiration and flow… 🌊✨

We are working alongside James Moore (Mortawel Consultancy) and Professor Wendy Dearing (UWTSD — Centre for Social Innovation) 🎓📚

📍 Across Pembrokeshire & Carmarthenshire we’re bringing:
🌊 Freediving with Celtic Deep (Emma Williams, Richard Rees-Khan & crew) 🌊🐚
🏊 Wild swimming with Sue Christopher & Travis Christopher (Wild Swim Wales) 🏊💙
🏖️ Mindfulness & ❤️ heartwarming, he-artfulness & beach-based nature wellbeing with Leanne Bird (Find Blue Freedom) & Sue Christopher 🌅💛
🌿 Cynefin Green Health Hub sessions with Tara Crank, Becky Brandwood-Cormack & Maïa Sparrow (Aderyn) 🌿🕊️

🎥 Storytelling team emerging:
Lucy Rose 🌹 Davies • Caitlin • (fingers crossed 🤞) Gus Yeulet 🎧🎶

📺 Tune into our Deep Dive Nature Talks & CWS podcast 🎬📡

🤝 We are team workers — reaching out with love ❤️ for a prosperous, resilient, healthy Wales 🐉
Aligning with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act ⚖️
➡️ Prevention • Collaboration • Social Innovation 🌱🤝

🙏 Thank you to everyone at WWAMH 💚
🌺 And for the nature facilitation networking sessions at the National Botanic Garden of Wales 🌸🌿

Also acknowledging:
🌿 Andrew Dugmore (Reconnect in Nature)
🌍 ECPR community & Dan Fisher 🇺🇸
🐎 Lara of Pegasus Wales (via James Moore)

💬 Our health is our wealth 💚
🌱 As we learn from nature, we honour our responsibility to nature 🌍

“We have not come despite the crisis —
🔥 we have come because of it”

“We ask not what nature can do for us…
🌍 we ask what we can do for nature”

Because we are nature - we are remembering that we are nature 🌿

🐉 Cymru is community 🐉
🤝 Local → Global unity 🌍
🔥 Kindling community • prosperity • love ❤️

Inspired by fire-making, land, and connection —
thank you to the Glasbren community & Tara Crank 🌿🔥

❤️ Kindling Humanity — Stories of Growth
🎬 Join our journey - be part of our narrative evolving journey 🎥✨
https://youtube.com/?si=0ZNzXXBwA5pvI6F5

🔥🌿❤️ KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH 🌿❤️🔥
🎬✨ CWS — DEEP DIVE NATURE TALKS 🎥

A living documentary and storytelling project rooted in Wales — exploring nature, wellbeing, community, prosperity, and how we live well together 🌍🌿

We are acting as Project Ambassadors with:
Coed Lleol / Small Woods 🌲
The National Lottery Community Fund (Awards for All — application submitted 🌱 seeds in the ground, kindling the flames 🔥 of community)
Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum 🌊

The economy of kindness • Proactive compassion • The currency of friendliness ❤️
It takes a village to raise a child • Nature & nurture • The power of structure 🌿
Cymru is community 🐉

We are supporting and documenting:
🌿 Nature-based wellbeing
🌊 Blue & Green Social Prescribing
🤝 Community resilience
🧠 Prevention in action

Bridging:
education 🎓 • science 🔬 • health 🫀 • research 📊 • media 🎥 • storytelling 🎙️ • creativity 🎨

🌍 WELLBEING & FUTURE GENERATIONS

Aligned with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act:
Healthier Wales • More Equal Wales • Resilient Wales
Prosperous Wales • Cohesive Communities • Vibrant Culture • Global Responsibility

Prevention • Integration • Involvement • Collaboration • Long-term thinking
Connect • Take Notice • Learn • Give • Be Active 🌱

Prosperity, wellbeing, and prevention are inseparable 🌿

🌲 NATURE AS MEDICINE • CYMRU 🌿

In collaboration with:
Coed Lleol / Small Woods
Cynefin Green Health Hub
Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum
Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project
Celtic Deep • Wild Swim Wales • Find Blue Freedom
West Wales Action for Mental Health
University of Wales Trinity Saint David 🎓

Nature-based prevention restores dignity and reduces long-term cost 🌿

🌊 “You cannot control the waves, but you can learn how to surf” 🌊

(SPAN Arts — Love Stories to Nature application submitted)

🎬 FILM & COMMUNITY — 2026 🎥

• Blue & Green Prescription sessions
• Community wellbeing in practice
• Creative + academic collaboration

Core team:
Caitlin Longden • Lucy Rose Davies • Gus Yeulet • Svend Emil Jacobsen

📣 NEXT PODCAST & COMMUNITY INVITE — MAY

With Lara of Pegasus Wales 🐎 — fundraising for the Welsh Air Ambulance 🚁
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/pegasusperformance.wales/

📅 2nd May — walk up Pen Y Fan ⛰️
Join if it resonates ❤️

🎥 TESTIMONIALS WELCOME

If you’ve taken part in Outdoor Health sessions in Pembrokeshire or at the Cynefin Green Health Hub (Carmarthen), share a short video 🎬

📧 matt.lister@pembrokeshirecoastalforum.org.uk
📧 alisonmoore@smallwoods.org.uk

Your voice demonstrates the real impact of community-powered wellbeing 🌿

🤝 SPONSORSHIP & PARTNERSHIP — WIN-WIN

We are building aligned sponsorships and partnerships that directly support delivery on the ground 🌍

Examples:
Marks & Spencer Food — providing food for community sessions 🥗
Finisterre • Patagonia — outdoor clothing 🌊
Vivobarefoot • Earth Runners — movement & connection 👣
Dryrobe — post-water warmth
COS — functional design

Creative partners:
DJI • GoPro — filming 🎥
RØDE • Sennheiser — audio 🎙️
Carmarthen Cameras • James Music

Public partners:
Carmarthenshire County Council • Pembrokeshire County Council

➡️ Not generic sponsorship — direct impact
supporting sessions • supporting people • supporting community wellbeing

🐉 CYMRU — COMMUNITY, BELONGING, PLACE 🐉

Cymru → Cymry → people of the land together
Hiraeth • Cynefin 🌿

🌍🔥 THE QUESTION

Could Wales lead the way in integrating
nature-based wellbeing + social prescribing
into real systems of support?

🏥 Prevention over cure
🌿 Nature as medicine
🤝 Community as infrastructure

🌊🎬 KINDLING HUMANITY — STORIES OF GROWTH

Telling the stories
Building the bridges
Documenting the shift

🏴🐉🔥 WILL YOU JOIN US?

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svend-emil-jacobsen
📸 Instagram:

A healthier, fairer, more resilient Wales — one story at a time ❤️

https://youtube.com/?si=0ZNzXXBwA5pvI6F5

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