Project update- Richard Vaughan the Head of Environment at Herefordshire Council, leading the Sustainability & Climate Change team and Steph Allen Cultural Development Lead for Herefordshire have asked to be involved with New Leaf to co-produce the end of project seminar/conference co-produced with our participants from across the region in June 2027.

The recent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Transformative Change assessment highlighted the need for positive visions of a better future for nature and people to inspire transformative change – shifting views, structures, and practices to address the underlying causes of the environmental crisis.

We have two choices, we can ignore the earth crisis or we can ask the question how can we help?

The fundamental ideas and questions of the Seeded Wing is an exploration of how do we develop a compassionate response to climate change through the uplifting creative health effect of nature connectivity. The Seeded Wing links social and environmental justice, so that a nature placed creative health co-production with marginalized groups of young people, becomes a form of climate response. The questions are: Will this give us more energy to understand what our individual contribution might be and take action?Will creative health nature connection mitigate the negative effects of eco anxiety burn out? And can this create nature connectivity help us find ways of living with nature instead of against it and with eachother instead of being in a state of separation?