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INVITATION
‘Well-Being & the Natural Environment’ Meet-Up
18 January 2016, 10am - 4pm,
Flintshire CC, County Offices, Mold,
Clwyd Committee Room, Phase 1 ground floor
Hello Everyone,
We are hosting a ‘Well-being and the Natural Environment’ Meet-up on the 18
January and would like to invite you and your connections to attend. We are
very grateful to Angela Wilson and Flintshire County Council for offering to
host our meet-up at the County offices in Mold. This meet-up is co-produced
and free of charge, please bring your lunch and drinks.
Over the last year one of the key themes that has kept emerging is the
challenges and barriers to spreading examples of good practice. We want to
better understand what these are and how to overcome them, so others can
learn from these and apply locally. Our aim is to establish a cross-sector action
learning programme, working with a range of people and organisations.
a) The purpose of the day will be to continue these conversations and
consider the ideas from the original Wrexham ‘Wellbeing and natural
environment’ workshop in more depth.
b) Kate and I will offer an introduction to action learning and explain why we
believe this could build our collective understanding of how to overcome
some of the barriers to change.
c) Offer an experience of action learning - a practical session in which you will
use the techniques to explore issues relevant to you.
d) Identify tangible plans for further action and potential projects.
A number of other people have expressed an interest in participating in this
action learning programme and I would be grateful if you could confirm as
soon as possible if you would like to come on 18th January.
Places are limited, and if you would like to come or would like to come to a
future event or take part in this work please do email me.
If you would like to discuss anything in more detail please don’t hesitate to
contact me at pam.luckock@btinternet.com or call me on: 077403028934.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and in the meantime send very best
wishes for a peaceful and happy 2016.
Kind regards
Pam
on behalf of Pam Luckock & Kate Hamilton, 5 January 2016
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PROGRAMME
‘Well-Being & the Natural Environment’ Meet-Up
18 January 2016, 10am - 4pm,
Flintshire CC, County Offices, Mold,
Clwyd Committee Room, Phase 1 ground floor
Hosted by
Pam Luckock, Director, ‘Working With Not To’ Co-Production Project &
Dr Kate Hamilton, Actif Woods Wales/ Coed Lleol
9.30am Arrival from 9.30am onwards, refreshments
10.00am Welcome and introductions Pam & Kate
Setting the context and background to the day Kate
Introduction to action learning, feedback from
the group on their knowledge and experience Pam
Action Learning - A practical action learning session,
including using a question, problem and solution
activity for everyone to experience the approach All
12.00pm Lunch
This meet-up is co-produced and free of charge, please bring your
lunch and drinks, there are local shops nearby or you can go to
the Glasfryn pub - opposite council offices - daily menu at:
http://www.brunningandprice.co.uk/glasfryn/menus/daily-menu/
1pm Action Learning experience: The group working
in action learning sets to explore potential projects.
Some people may wish to work on personal projects,
others on cross-sector projects. All
Feedback, reactions, learning points All
Next steps discussion: taking this work forwards
- individually & collectively, draft proposal review All
4pm Close
Location information can be found via:
http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/en/PDFFiles/Customer-
Services/Council-office-locations/County-Hall.PDF

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PROPOSAL TITLE:
Well-being and the Natural Environment (Wales) Action Learning Programme
PREPARED BY:
Pam Luckock, director, ‘Working With Not To’ (WWNT) Coproduction Project
Dr Kate Hamilton, Actif Woods Wales/ Small Woods
Fran O’Hara, Director WWNT and Scarlet Design Int. Ltd.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT
Pam Luckock, email: pam.luckock@btinternet.com T: 07740 3028934
DATE:
16 October 2015

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CONTENTS
1. STRUCTURE .. PAGE 3
2. BACKGROUND ..PAGE 3
3. PURPOSE .. PAGE 4
4. OUR AIMS ....... PAGE 4
5. APPROACH PAGE 5
6. DELIVERY ...PAGE 6
7. SPONSORS .PAGE 6
APPENDIX: THEMES & IDEAS TREE
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1. STRUCTURE
Project leads: Pam Luckock, director of the ‘Working With Not To’ (WWNT) Coproduction
Project and Dr Kate Hamilton, Actif Woods Wales/ Small Woods, with Fran O Hara leading
the project management team.
Project host: ‘Working With Not To’ (WWNT) Coproduction Project
Funding: From a range of project sponsors and people in the WWNT community sharing
their assets, e.g. room space etc.
Format: 1 initial group to be based in N Wales of approx 10- 12 people, starting in October
2015. A second group to be based in S Wales starting January 2016.
Schedule: There will be an introduction / launch day, an end of programme shared learning
event and each group will meet four times over the course of a 12 month period, in addition
to sharing and communicating in an online space.
Outcomes:
1. For the group members – Specific outcomes to be confirmed at beginning of each set
2. For the project leads and host o identify answers to the question posed in ‘Purpose’
below and
3. to better understand the barriers to and enablers of effective cross sector working
across organisational boundaries in context of using Greenspaces more effectively to
improve health and well being outcomes;
4. Produce a map of ‘What is’ i.e. whats happening, what works, what doesn’t work and
where;
5. To have identified key steps to achieving success.
6. For sponsors (report/data/model/process) A cross sector action learning community
7. A final report with key learning points, plus recommendations for further action.
• A model process
• Research findings
• Potential for action research
2. BACKGROUND
Pam Luckock led and co-hosted two ‘Coproduction, primary care and the environment’ meet-
ups in her role as director of the ‘Working With Not To’ (WWNT) Coproduction Project with
Diana Reynolds, Environment and Sustainable Development Change Manager, Natural Re-
sources, Welsh Government. An enthusiastic and engaged group of people attended the
mini meet-ups in:
- N Wales 24th October 2014 (sponsored by Welsh Government)
- S Wales 4th February 2015 (sponsored by 1000 Lives Improvement)
Following on from these Pam co-led a session with Dr Kate Hamilton at the ‘National Parks
and Well-being’ conference on 21st and 22nd April 2015 and also attended the ‘UNESCO UK
Man & Biosphere urban forum on 13th May 2015. As part of the WWNT Meet Up 10, held in
Wrexham on 7th July, Pam led a Well Being and Natural Environment workshop with Dr Kate
Hamilton, Actif Woods Wales/ Small Woods. The idea to establish an action learning group
and its initial membership came out of this workshop. Following this, Pam hosted a table
conversation on this at the WWNT Dementia Education & Inclusion meetup, November 15.

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3. PURPOSE
The question we want to explore:
“A conundrum was identified at the National Parks and Well Being conference held
21-23 April 2015. There is a substantial evidence base of the benefits of exposure to
natural environments for people’s health and well being and the prevention of ill
health. However there appears to be a lack of policy initiatives to support a culture
change to help share, spread and sustain the knowledge gained from many
successful projects.
Wales has an abundance of green spaces that are greatly under utilised and could
be used so much more effectively to improve health and well being.
The NHS Wales Estate offers an untapped resource that could support the work of
NHS staff as evidenced by ‘The Green Exercise Partnership’ in Scotland. This could
align with Future Generations Bill and provide evidence for future audits using triple
bottom line; People Places Planet
There are also significant numbers of people and organisations who really want to
discover how to effect change.
Our inquiry will focus upon
‘What’s stopping this happening? … at scale?”
4. OUR AIMS
First, in year 1, to establish a Wellbeing and Natural Environment Action Learning
programme that will explore:
a) barriers to and enablers of effective cross sector working across organisational
boundaries;
b) What is! i.e. map whats happening currently, what works, what doesn’t work and
where; examine how success is achieved
c) Identify the skills required to enable positive change
Second, at the end of year 1 there will be specific outcomes, we will produce research
findings, a review and there may be scope for the work to become a piece of action
research.
As experienced action learning facilitators we trust the process to help get to the bottom of
the real issues. At the very least, by bringing together a group of people, from a range of or-
ganisations and different perspectives, who want to focus their inquiry on the conundrum de-
scribed, we will be able to provide evidence of ‘What is’, get people from different sectors,
thinking, doing and talking to each other, discovering what does and doesn’t work.
Participation in action learning programmes has been shown to empower individuals, create
new knowledge and learning, support personal and professional development and important
within this context, helps to build strong, trusting and sustainable relationships.

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5. APPROACH
STAGE 1: Begin the programme in North Wales
Objective:
To collaboratively identify ways in which the natural environment and outdoor spaces in
North Wales could contribute to improvements in people’s health and well-being.
The facilitators anticipate that a number of sub groups will form as people ‘cluster’ around
specific issues / themes that they want to explore.
Examples of Potential issues/ themes (to be decided by North Wales set members)
People collaboratively doing things together
• Asset mapping-
• Explore the ‘What is’
• Sharing stories using what we have.
• Literature review of evidence base of impact of Greenspace on promotion and main-
tenance of physical and mental health and well being.
• Alternatives to care and treatment plans
• Develop project proposals/ pilot these using a 90 day cycle (30+30+30) and report
outcomes to set.
STAGE 2: Invite applications for a South Wales Set to begin 3 months after start of
the N Wales set. The objectives and issues/themes to be decided by the S Wales set group.
6. DELIVERY
- An introduction to action learning day for participants, to include a short launch event.
- We propose to use a 90 day cycle method (ref: Carnegie Foundation) and hold 4 ac-
tion learning days during a 12 month time frame.
- At the end of the12 month programme there will be a learning event hosted by set
members that will aim to share key learning points and consider what next?
- We plan to establish a social media identity and to share discussions using Blogs/
Twitter / Facebook etc
- Flexibility / people travel to and start or join other groups
7. SPONSORS
We would aim to gain initial sponsorship funding from organisations who would benefit from
an action research group and the knowledge and data which will be produced, such as
NRW/NHS/WG. Funding is required for
- administration of the group
- to setup and manage the communications stream of the group including an online
sharing space
- management of the meetings, facilitation and materials costs
- travel and expenses for the delivery team
- collating and sharing the outcomes of each group meeting
It may be possible to apply for additional funding for the aspects of the project, to expand the
resources of the group, to start additional group/s, to analyse and produce reports from the
outputs, to create a model that could be used by other groups.

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APPENDIX
THEMES
The content and themes for the group will be co-produced with the group. At the end
of the workshop at the WWNT Meetup 10 workshop the group posted Ideas on the an
‘Ideas Tree’
• Education in schools is key to the next generation. Happy to help,
nicola.thompson@wrexham.gov.uk
• Stay together
• Keep health and wellbeing clear
• Lucy Jones, L.R.Jones@glyndwr.ac.uk: Helping graduates see “the woods from the
trees” Graduate employment project
• Local group interests
• Social “What matters to me” conversation
• Yes please to a working / thinking/ learning group in North Wales : Kate Hamilton
• Want to be involved, Lee Parry-Williams
• Organisations with natural resources can work effectively together - Ani Sutton
• Info on whats available locally
• Promotion angela.wilson@flintshire.gov.uk
• Alternatives on Care and Treatment plans
• Let citizens decide whether they would prefer woodland activities versus medication
• Solutions to all sorts of things come to me when out walking, sometimes stimulate by
metaphors for what I see - Martin Hughes
• When engaging with staff and citizens, ask questions about what matters to people
regarding wellbeing and natural spaces
• Consider redirecting funds and doing things differently
• Go with Pam & Kate on their journey Dave Gittins

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