Nature and Health hosted our annual symposium on October 11-13, 2022 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center. This symposia, titled Body, Mind, and Soul: A Return to Nature’s Gifts, highlighted transdisciplinary research at the intersection of equity, health, nature, and well-being.
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Dr. Holli-Anne Passmore is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Concordia University of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Additionally, Holli-Anne is the Director of the Nature—Meaning in Life (NMIL) Research Lab, an Editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing, Science Chair of the Spirituality and Meaning Division of the International Positive Psychology Association, and an invited academic with the Global Wellbeing Initiative (a partnership between the Gallup World Poll and the Wellbeing for Planet Earth Foundation).
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Almost two years ago the Ecopsychology journal partnered with the 2021 Nature and Health conference to solicit original manuscripts for a special issue of the journal, edited by Dr. Gregory N.
Special Issue Part 1
We were bipedal before we were human. But science still has much to explore about how we evolved—body and brain—to be walkers.
The benefits of walking include healthy aging and extend beyond the body to the brain—playing a role in staving off cognitive decline.
UW Farm, Nature and Health, UW Botanic Gardens, and UW Sustainability formed a campus collaboration called Campus Rx. We host volunteer work parties and lunches that builds community around spending time outdoors.
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Nature and Health, an EarthLab member organization, is hosting two interns for the 2022 summer through the EarthLab Summer Internships program. Housed within EarthLab, the internship program is a robust, cohort-based experience for University of Washington undergraduate students to develop interdisciplinary and community-engagement skills.
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By Allie Long
Have you ever felt anxious, tired, or overwhelmed, and then noticed a release in tension once you’ve taken a break to spend some time outside? Research shows you’re not alone.
Robert Preidt · HealthDay · May 21, 2022
Featuring Dr. Pooja S. Tandon, Nature and Health researcher
It’s a good idea to get children outside every day, but especially on Kids to Parks Day, a national day of outdoor play on May 21.
Karen Kirsch, MA is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist with a Masters in Somatic Psychology. Karen has been working in the field of childhood grief for 12 years as a facilitator of children’s groups and served as coordinator of the SoundCareKids grief program for 10 months.
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Although we have seen research on the beneficial relationship between nature contact and human health, little is known on how natural environments that are not green affect stress. Nature and Health researchers tested the effect of a virtual reality exposure to the desert among healthy adult male residents of El Paso, Texas.
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