Women's Wellbeing Workshops (in the Woods)
Over the last 18 months, the Callister Trust have been re-developing their secret walled garden in Oxton that had been left untended for over 15 years. GROW-Wellbeing has been a close collaborator: volunteering time, energy and support to help the Callister Trust realise their ambition to develop their beautiful garden into a facility that can provide opportunities for the local community to access gardening, nature-connection, growing fruit and vegetables, and enhance their holistic health and wellbeing.
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Following facilitation of a number of successful Family Woodland Workshops, the Callister Trust asked GROW-Wellbeing to deliver two Women's Wellbeing workshops at the garden in October 2019, including a warming campfire lunch for all participants. Other elements of the workshop included weaving a 'godseye', yoga, and befriending a tree!
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The feedback from participants was hugely positive, with many expressing how contained and supported they felt during the workshop, with one saying how 'transformative' it had been for her.
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'Grow Together in the Callister Garden’
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In September 2020, following the first covid-19 national lockdown, the Callister Trust asked GROW again to deliver a wellbeing workshop in the Callister Garden for a group of women as part of ‘Grow Together in the Callister Garden’: a project working with refugees and asylum seekers alongside the garden’s local volunteers. Click the button below to read the evaluation report:
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'What I like the most was the presence of women with beautiful hearts and charming smiles.'
(asylum seeker attendee)
If you would like more information
about how GROW can provide a
Wellbeing workshop for your group,
please email:
or call: 07841 753309
For more information about the Callister Trust Garden - who are always looking for volunteers - see their Facebook page
