An expert guide to Social Prescribing
Or, what happens when doctors stop asking; 'What's the matter with you?' and start asking; 'What matters TO you?'
Hello everybody,
If you’ve ever recommended Shelf Help to a friend, family member or colleague then, firstly, thank you and I love you, and secondly you are (possibly) unwittingly part of a game-changing movement in global healthcare!
Social Prescribing is ‘a way of connecting people with activities, groups and services that improve their health and wellbeing’ (source: The National Academy for Social Prescribing) and its proven to treat all kinds of physical and emotional ailments, including: depression, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes and loneliness.
It’s basically a wonder drug that’s not a drug, swapping out medication for socialisation, and creating a healthier and happier planet as a result.
Walking in the woods, swimming in the sea, dancing in a field… these things are ancient answers to many of the health challenges of modern life.
And TONIGHT we’ll be hosting journalist, Julia Hotz, an expert in the science and spread of Social Prescribing and the author of, The Connection Cure; The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art and Belonging, to learn more about how we can all get involved.
Social Prescribing: A non-medical resource or activity that aims to improve a person’s health and strengthen their community connections.
Julia Hotz, The Connection Cure
In our event we’ll be looking at what happens when doctors stop asking: ‘what’s the matter with you?’ and instead start to ask: ‘what matters TO you?’, and exploring some of the most effective forms of Social Prescribing, including
Getting unstuck from sadness through Movement
Restoring attention through Nature
Creating a new story about our worries through Art
Lightening up through Service to Others
Finding meaning by finding Belonging
Book Club members/subscribers will find tonight’s event information and this week’s BOTM reading target in the Members Only section below, and non-members can join the fun by subscribing now.
See you on screen?
Toni 💛
