A Day of Self Care in Nature
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A Day of Self Care in Nature

1 Day Immersion: Experience the abundant benefits of connecting with nature in every area of your Life, expand and elevate your Journey.

Date and time

Sunday, September 29 · 10am - 4pm GMT+1

Location

Festina Lente Enterprises CLG

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bray Ireland

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 6 hours

Green Care Journey - 1 day immersion

A journey of green care is an emerging reality that includes a “range of activities that promotes physical and mental health and well-being through contact with nature”.


MENU FOR THE DAY

Be inspired - Choose all or some of the following activities to experience in the revitalizing setting of Festina Lente Victorian Walled Gardens. The range of activities offers endless possibilities and unique ways to discover and transform your sense of self and potential!


  • Introductory talk - What is Green Care and discover how it can activate new potential and pathways in your Life– personal, professional and planetary alignments
  • Woodland mindfulness walk and breath work
  • Wildland foraging and plant medicine - create a seasonal remedy for your self
  • Propagation and Seed Saving - Identify and collect herbs and seeds to grow across the landscape
  • Horses and aromatherapy- experience the combined healing powers of horse company and herbal aroma infusions
  • Walled Garden Tour -unravel a rich history and beautiful biodiversity around you
  • Wreath making - adorn your special place with a seasonal composition
  • Biodynamic body scrubs and body salts
  • Micro green and container gardening: the art and science of small steps
  • Leaf tea making and tasting - with fresh pickings and contemplative rituals
  • Botanical sketching and journalling around the garden
  • Flower reading – discover your flower personality
  • Elemental Body movement and yoga -unearth physical ease, find your niche
  • Plant sound machine - experience the uplifting benefits of listening to plant biosignals and sound waves with sonic technology
  • Harvest heritage fruits and make fruit jam


Plant-based lunch – A celebratory tasting of the beautiful walled gardens seasonal harvest


What's included in the day

  • Take home your handmade green care products from each activity
  • Plant-based lunch, tea and coffee and ambient live quartet performance
  • Personalised Green Care action plan for wellbeing and goal setting
  • 10% off seasonal gifts and plants in the Garden Shop


Early bird offer- tickets purchased by 30th August: for the first 10 bookings, there is opportunity to further nurture your green care journey: receive access to one social and therapeutic horticulture (STH) coaching 1-1 practice session or an Autumn green care workshop experience.


For further information or if you have any questions, you can email: Sinead at sinead.oconnor@festinalente.ie

Dr. Sinead O'Connor, Head of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and Sustainability Services, Festina Lente Victorian Walled Gardens.

Organized by

Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops,  a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit.  Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus.  The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis.  It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation.  Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly.  Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk.  The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.