Community Gardens for Wellbeing
What is ‘the good life’? Am I in charge of my own health? What pressures affect me and my community?
Global Action Plan (GAP) will host the 'Community Gardens for Wellbeing' event at the GLAS @ TU Dublin Community Garden on the Blanchardstown campus. The workshop, which is funded by Irish Aid will take place between 14:00 - 16:00pm, Thursday 16 November 2023.
This is a free but ticketed event and interested students, staff and members of the community can register for tickets here.
GAP asks: "What is ‘the good life’? Am I in charge of my own health? What pressures affect me and my community?" These are some of the questions that will be considered during the open air workshop.
A recent study by TU Dublin researchers has shown that community gardens are crucial parts of local communities, and can have many positive benefits for people's physical and mental wellbeing.
In this workshop, GLAS coordinators will:
- highlight some of the challenges people experience globally and locally to our pursuit of a healthy, good life,
- identify how a community garden can support better local communities and be a site for action for sustainable living,
- Discuss how people's health and wellbeing is being - and will be - impacted by the climate crisis, and how community gardens can be spaces to respond meaningfully and locally to these challenges.
Register now!