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Stress management through nature for companies and individuals
Good mental health is everyone's business
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“If gardening is stressful, you are doing it wrong”
– that’s The Wildman’s motto.
Our 4 paperback volumes are a great way of getting an alternative insight into gardening as The Wildman writes in his own forthright yet simple style about wildlife gardening and traditional gardening.
What can be assured is that you will return with regularity to these pages and the messages contained within as we can all relate to them in some way.
Books you can dip into whenever the mood takes you, or one to read from cover to cover in one sitting.
These books are available in eBook format on Amazon and books 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in the series are being written.
With the titles:
- Angels On My Path - A Book Of Life And Death -I Don’t Want To Sit On Your Sofa
- A Philosophical Look At Wildlife Gardening
- Nature Walks Around Oxford
- A Book Of Poems, Prose and Lyrics
- Don’t Be So Forthcoming With Your Perceived Lack Of Confidence
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Wildman Highlights CDs
Wildlife sound recordings & "Going Wild With Wildlife 2013 series"
The CDs are a great way to capture some of the highlights of our independent wildlife radio show, Going Wild With Wildlife.
Going Wild with Wildlife Audio Soundcloud
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Discover our Corporate and public nature sensory workshops for pain, peace and stress management
Good mental health is everyone's business
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Putting Nature On The Airwaves
About the Wildman
Stress management through nature for companies and individuals
Good mental health is everyone's business
Stuart 'The Wildman' Mabbutt has been a professional wildlife gardener for nearly 31 years. He writes widely in magazines, recently published his first four books on the subject, and is busy writing another 5 on a range of subjects.
- Nature Walks
- Poetry, Prose and Lyrics
- A Philosophical Look at Wildlife Gardening
- Angels On My Path – A Book Of Life And Death
- Confidence
He leads nature workshops for business people and individuals, to show how engaging with nature using the 5 senses can help manage stress and pain, as well as be a good team building tool. He carries out his nature sensory engagement activities, with families and children, to develop lifelong learning, resilience and a positive attitude to life.
His media work includes being a wildlife sound recordist and making the independent wildlife radio show, Going Wild With Wildlife, which transmits up to 30 times a week on up to 11 differing stations across Britain. He's also working on The Peoples Countryside project.
An extension of his work interests include developing some academic research with Oxford University, into the benefits of nature on the human body. He has an ambition to perform on the main stage at the O2 Arena in London, and is developing a stage show plus an experiential modern art/performance concept to start the ball rolling in getting him there.
3 What will you do on our workshops?
What will you do on our workshops?
Engage all your senses with heightened awareness.
Explore nature as a pain/stress management tool.
Discover what sound looks like.
Use filtering skills.
Draw sound
Develop trust building exercises.
Experience nature through your hands and feet.
Explore what the seasons smell and feel like.
Understand basic wildlife watch and identification.
Creative mosaic making and woodland crafts.
Examine emotional responses and connections to the landscape and the environment, in written and picture form and verbally.
Silent walking.
Experimental photography, especially with reduced hearing – will that affect what you take photographs of and how you capture images?
Bird song recognition.
Blindfold work.
Meditation and visualisation work.
PLUS, a free gift to remind you of this experience that you can take home.
2 Who might attend our workshops and why?
Who might attend our workshops and why?
(we can arrange for our corporate workshops to be filmed)
The more technology we have in our lives the more important it is to ‘leave space’ for nature.
Workshops involve hands on interactive sensory engagement with nature, using the 5 main senses, and based on the techniques Stuart uses to manage his own Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Ideal for adults and as a family activity and designed to open the mind and senses to nature, to observe and experience not to name and catalogue.
Provides an opportunity to appreciate nature on a much richer level and reveals tools for use in the workplace to manage stress.
Enjoy a much deeper quality of connection with your environment. 2, 4 and 8 hr workshops available.
We facilitate our own workshops, have numerous collaborators, and make guest appearances to form part of the programme at other venues and their outdoor activity programmes nationally.
Experiencing is understanding.
Simon Webb
"Stuart’s immense affinity with Mother Nature comes across with great humour in his wildlife gardening lecture. He challenges tradition and social conditioning, preferring to focus on values."