Co-authored with Jane Faulkner, North London NHS Foundation Trust Calm, relaxed and peaceful. Curious, inspired and thoughtful. Reflective, thankful and sad. These were feelings highlighted on The Emotions Wheel by participants in a recent “walkshop” at Highgate Cemetery,  designed and delivered with Jane Faulkner, Lived Experience Workforce Lead at the North London NHS Foundation Trust.

Last year, colleagues from Highgate Cemetery joined the Healthy Parks and Green Space Network I jointly run with Gemma Moore and Liza Griffin from UCL’s Bartlett Faculty. The Cemetery team also generously hosted our first in-person meeting, in one of their chapels. We organised a “green walk” to this from Archway station to help participants

‘There’s an innate health and wellbeing response to looking in to the eyes of a cow.’ On Tuesday morning, I dashed to Kentish Town City Farm to make a donation and claim some of their superb manure for my allotment. Under COVID-19 restrictions, you can’t get past the farm gate without pre-booking (though there is still a