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Week 15 | Mencap Gateway Bronze Award — Prescribe Nature & Finding My Rhythm

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🌿 Prescribe Nature — A New Beginning This week something exciting started: I enrolled on the Prescribe Nature course, an 8-week outdoor wellbeing programme at the beautiful Newbattle Abbey College woodlands. The course is designed for adults who would benefit from time in nature — to improve mental health, reduce social isolation, and build confidence through therapeutic outdoor activities. There's also the opportunity to gain a recognised award at the end. For me, it's about reconnecting with nature, improving my wellbeing, and growing in a calming, supportive, and empowering space. This week we learned to slow down — to explore, collect, and identify things in nature. We set up tents, tied knots, and put up hammocks. It was a beautiful reminder that life doesn't have to rush. There was real creativity, real joy, and real peace in just being present outdoors. 👉 Read more about my first session here: Slowing Down — My Journey Begins ✅ Evidence Summary for Week...