Flowers, Nature and Wellbeing

Course Overview 

This 10-week course, delivered in two hour sessions, explores how we can more deeply engage with the natural world to support and improve our health and wellbeing. It combines insights from the science of nature and healing with inspirational stories, practical tools, and group discussion to create a rich and supportive learning experience.

The course gently guides participants from an initial sensory awareness of nature towards a deeper emotional connection, encouraging personal reflection and introducing simple, practical ways to support everyday wellbeing.

Through a range of nature and flower-based themes, including smell, soil, colour, rose, dandelion, spring, water, herbs, and taste, participants will be supported to deepen their awareness, strengthen their connection with nature, and enhance their overall sense of wellbeing.

Additional Information

Tutor Details: Brid Kennedy

Bríd Kennedy is the author of The Spirituality of Flowers: What Flowers Do For Us and holds an MA in Applied Spirituality, an MSc in Community Health, a BA (Honours) in Theology, and a Diploma in Personal and Business Coaching. Over nearly four decades, she has led programmes addressing poverty and disasters in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, experiences that deepened her appreciation for the “beauty within” each person.

Through her coaching and talks, Bríd helps people reconnect with themselves using the wisdom of the seasons, flowers, and the senses. She creates welcoming spaces where people can reflect and enjoy meaningful connections with themselves, each other, and the natural world, encouraging them to live their lives with greater awareness, joy, and fulfilment.