FREE - supported by Liverpool One Foundation. Grounded is a series of workshops and activities during 2024 and 2025 supporting teenage mental health and wellbeing in nature. The programme begins with Spoken Word Workshops with Helen Jeffery.

22, 23, 24 August 1-3pm (please make sure you can attend all 3 workshops before booking)

Poetry has the power to help you feel seen and understood.

A new land-based course using poetry and spoken word to support positive mental wellbeing for young people aged 11-16.

In these sessions, under the guidance of writer and spoken word performer, Helen Jeffery, we’ll be exploring how picking up a pen and writing about our feelings, in the beautiful and natural surroundings of the walled garden, can really help us to deal with the tough stuff that happens in life.  There’s no judgement (we won’t be checking your spelling!) just a space to read, write and share our words in a friendly and supportive environment.  So if you’d like to….

• Be inspired by nature

• Express your emotions through writing (and sharing) poetry

• Build self-confidence and self-esteem

• Find connection with others

• Spend time outdoors with the birds and the wind

• Explore your creativity with support

• Write about what matters to you 

…..then we’d love you to join us!