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Wildman Environmental Learning uses nature sensory workshops to teach new and transferable stress management tools and techniques. Get the opportunity to immerse yourself in nature by engaging your senses. Happiness, satisfaction, health, wellbeing and resilience are a workshop away.

Making nature part of people’s daily lives is a first step to inspiring them to protect it.

Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt manages his own pain and health issues through a sensory connection to nature - About The Wildman

"In a survey by the Mental Health Foundation, 58% of respondents who have had a mental health problem in the last five years had decided to disclose this to their employer, just over half of the respondents (54%) reported a mainly positive experience. However, 15% reported a mainly negative experience and a shocking 29% of respondents who had chosen to disclose said that they had experienced direct discrimination on mental health grounds.” See full article

Many people are surviving in their day-to-day lives rather than thriving. To help people who are struggling to thrive, including in the workplace we are developing this ‘Wildman’s Wisdom Section of the section.

• We will be posting regularly in written, filmed and audio. We will challenge you, get you thinking and hopefully facilitate discussions.
• Mental health issues are widespread, with one in six people experiencing a mental health problem each week at work and during home life too. Often due to but not limited to, stress, anxiety, pressure and depression.
• Mental health has a negative impact on both employees and employers. To increase employee retention, a stronger focus on mental wellbeing in the workplace could be considered. We all need to be better educated on the signs and symptoms of mental health issues. Managers who have experienced mental health issues are often more confident dealing with employees with similar conditions, and are able to offer them greater levels of support than managers who have not suffered with a mental health issue.
• More education is needed around mental health within the workplace for employees and employers. There also needs to be a breakdown of the barriers that surround mental health and the stigma that is associated with it.

Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt uses his varied work out in nature and a sensory connection with nature to try and sustain his own health including mental health. ‘The Wildmans Wisdom’ is an outlet to explore the many and varied insights he and we get whilst working out in nature. Often philosophical in tone, they will explore and challenge some of the serious and not so serious questions we all can face regarding mental health, morally and environmentally. In fact, few subjects will be off limits if they are felt worthy of exploration.

Are your employees stressed and unproductive? How can you help your staff and provide for their wellbeing?

Our nature sensory workshops can show insights into workplace stress management and take home tools for everyday use.

Learn new stress management tools and techniques through nature, get the opportunity and the permission to immerse yourself in nature, by engaging your senses. Happiness, satisfaction, health, wellbeing and resilience are a workshop away.

Good mental health is everyone’s business.

Working nationally, our wildlife gardening lectures (other lectures are also available), tutorials and consultations, plus nature sensory workshops showcasing nature as a pain/stress management tool can help business people, individuals and families to become more connected to nature in their own personal experiences, and the world around them.

Stuart ‘The Wildman’ Mabbutt uses sensory engagement to nature to manage his own pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis and other conditions, and hopes to, in collaboration with Oxford University, drive forward the understanding behind what’s going on in the human body that allows him to do this.

He’s also developing a stage show plus an experiential modern art/performance concept which will showcase our work and take it to a new audience in theatres. Plus developing The Peoples Countryside Project.

The Wildman is available to write guest blog’s/articles and is a registered speaker for the Royal Horticultural Society, and fully DBS checked to work with children.

Putting Nature on the airwaves. The Wildman also presents the independent wildlife radio show, ‘Going Wild With Wildlife’, currently available on up to 11 different stations.

Recorded on location all around Britain, with international listeners online, our show is interactive via social media.

With the emphasis on hospital patients, who listen in via hospital radio and appreciate hearing a slice of the countryside as part of their recovery process.

THE WILDMANS AUDIO BLOG:

Soundscapes - Wildlife Sound Recordings

30 MINUTE RADIO SHOW - LISTEN AGAIN HIGHLIGHTS