The NHS, often reactive, can proactively help people through social prescribing. A common sense approach to improve well-being before crises arise. Wonderful! #SocialPrescribing #NHS #Wellbeing #proactivehealth
— A LIVING LEGACY IN THE MAKING
This episode stands on real work, real collaboration, and real delivery.
Since November 2024, I’ve been deeply committed — alongside Caitlin Longden (documentary filmmaker & narrative storyteller), Lucy Rose Davies, and an extraordinary network of practitioners, community leaders, clinicians, academics, and creatives — to documenting, strengthening, and scaling nature-based health and social prescribing across Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
This is not theory.This is embodied, lived practice.
With gratitude and respect, this work has been shaped through collaboration with:
• Shôn Devey & Angie Darlington — West Wales Action for Mental Health• Michael Jonas — CAVS• Hannah Brigham, Becky Brandwood-Cormack, Alison Moore, Sam Frankie Evans — Coed Lleol / Small Woods• Matt Lister & Joe Monks — Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum• Emma Williams & Richard Rees-Khan — Celtic Deep• Sue Christopher & Travis Christopher — Wild Swim Wales• Leanne Bird — Blue Freedom / Kudu People• Dafydd Millns — Tonik Surf• James Moore & Wendy Dearing — University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Social Innovation & Management)• Gus Yeulet — sound & field recording• Andrew Dugmore — Reconnect in Nature, pioneer and inspiration• And many others working quietly, powerfully, and consistently across West Wales
Together, we are co-creating documentary evidence of what already works — through the Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project
https://www.pembrokeshirecoastalforum...
and the Cynefin Green Health Hub — aligning practice with the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act and its Five Ways of Working:
🟢 Long-term🟢 Prevention🟢 Integration🟢 Collaboration🟢 Involvement
This is Wales doing what Wales does best: leading with values.
We are demonstrating — on the ground — how nature-based health improves:• mental wellbeing• emotional resilience• physical health• community cohesion• economic sustainability• and long-term public value
This is the economic case and the moral case.
Prevention saves money.Connection saves lives.Collaboration creates prosperity.
This is why we are actively developing documentary films, research partnerships, and investment-ready narratives — including Awards for All, community funds, arts funding, and future cross-sector investment — to show what happens when we stop fragmenting care and start designing systems that actually work.
To policymakers, funders, health boards, and government leaders — including Welsh Government, UK Government, Hywel Dda University Health Board, NHS Wales, and beyond:
👉 The pathway is already here.👉 The evidence is being gathered.👉 The people are ready.
This is not a pilot phase — this is a paradigm shift already in motion.
As we move into future storytelling — including Adventure Therapy and deep-dive conversations (because you cannot control the waves, but you can learn how to surf) — we invite those aligned with prevention, dignity, creativity, and long-term thinking to step forward.
This is a call to co-create a healthier Wales:• more equal• more prosperous• more inclusive• culturally alive• rooted in land, language, and legacy
Teamwork is dream work.This is the living legacy.The shift begins beneath our feet.
🌿 Join the conversation. Be part of the work.
🔖 HASHTAGS (use freely under Nature Talks episodes)
#NatureAsMedicine #Cynefin #LivingLegacy#WellbeingOfFutureGenerations #FiveWaysOfWorking#SocialPrescribing #OutdoorHealth#PreventativeHealth #PublicHealthInnovation#CommunityWellbeing #SystemsChange#WestWales #Pembrokeshire #Carmarthenshire#CoedLleol #PembrokeshireOutdoorHealth#WildSwimWales #CelticDeep #TonikSurf#BlueFreedom #ReconnectInNature#AdventureTherapy #CreativeHealth#DocumentaryImpact #FilmForChange#TeamworkIsDreamwork #BeTheChange#ConversationsWithSvend #NatureTalks
I’ve been working collaboratively with Small Woods Association / Coed Lleol, Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum, and documentary filmmakers Caitlin Longden and Lucy Davies on an Awards for All funding application to document nature-based social prescription sessions across Pembrokeshire Outdoor Health Project and the Cynefin Green Health Hub in Carmarthenshire.
One of the core themes we’re exploring is kindling humanity and community — remembering our ancestral roots as hunter-gatherers, gathering around the tribal fire, sharing food, stories, land, and belonging.
🌿 Maĩa Sparrow (@aderyn.pembs) extends an open invitation to people across West Wales and the British Isles who feel the call to:• form real-world communities• explore wild food resurgence• gather around shared fires• reconnect with land, body, and tribe
🔥 Kindling the fire of humanity.
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