Imagine your life with nature.

Feel Blue Touch Green is a range of environmental education projects which offer practical help to sufferers of anxiety and depression, illness and disability through real interactions with nature. By linking those dislocated with nature to activities in park setting, we look to enhance their health and wellbeing.

Recent research undertaken in both Australia and the USA has shown that there are significant mental health benefits to be gained from interacting with nature. However, over the years people have become more and more disconnected with nature.

“…deficiency of contact with nature and the excess of artificial stimulations that characterise modern life induce exhaustion and undermine human health and psychological wellbeing. There is both strong evidence of beneficial effects of passive contact with nature and indications that ‘active and social nature-based interventions’ may be particularly helpful in treating individuals experiencing chronic physical, mental and social ill health’”. (Feel Blue Touch Green Report (Townsend & Ebden) 2006, p9)

Visit our Resource Centre and read the Feel Blue Touch Green report and other related articles.

Feel Blue Touch Green projects include: 

WILD

Wellness through Integrated Learning and Development; an outdoor-based, youth friendly program designed to promote emotional wellbeing and improved mental health outcomes for young people.
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FEEL BLUE TOUCH GREEN

Sufferers of anxiety and depression in its various forms will be linked to park volunteer groups; this is a project which breaks through those real or imaginary barriers to people experiencing the joys of nature based activities in parks.
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JUNIOR RANGER CAMPS

A project which puts fun and laughter back into the lives of under serviced children; improving their quality of life through real interactions with nature.
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How can you help?

Support our programs by giving a one off donation or by becoming a regular donor.

Donations of $2 or more to People & Parks Foundation are tax deductible.