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\"\" The Green Prescribing in Cancer Care and Recovery<\/em> creative workshop, held at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) on 30th June, convened a community of practice dedicated to creating, evidencing and advocating therapeutic access to urban green spaces for those in cancer treatment and recovery in the Liverpool City Region (LCR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was a collaboration between the Social Innovation, Green Spaces and Cancer special interest groups of the Institute for Health Research<\/a> (IHR) at LJMU and the EU-funded Social Prescribing and Civic Engagement<\/a> (SPACE) partnership, which includes collaborating organisations from Spain, Greece, Malta, Belgium, Ireland and the UK (led by Jo Ward on behalf of the Social Prescribing Network). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop included an introduction to the SPACE programme<\/a> by UK lead Jo Ward, with guests joining us online from across the international network, followed by an in-person creative workshop led by Dr Emeri Curd<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This enabled the sharing of experiences from colleagues across the LCR footprint, including clinicians and charity organisations involved in existing green prescribing initiatives, and people with lived experience of using urban green spaces in their own cancer recovery pathways. Participants engaged in facilitated creative activities, designed to consider the potential for introducing and integrating green prescribing in cancer care in the city region, and actionable, sustainable approaches to programme planning, delivery and evaluation research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These included for example a creative writing session dedicated to remembering and commemorating meaningful outdoor spaces, which resulted in a collaborative poem composed from excerpts from each participant’s written pieces – Hidden Beneath a Serene Tide<\/a><\/em>. The photo above is from my own special outdoor space (the allotment)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next steps for the project include case study research with partner outdoor therapy organisations across the North West, each supporting people at different stages of their cancer treatment and recovery. I’m delighted to be part of the LJMU research team alongside colleagues Hannah Timpson, Kaye Richards, Avril Rowley and Rachel Tarling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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