This holiday season, make time for yourself and immerse in the restorative power of nature. Parks Victoria’s Nature Wellness Trails offer a wonderful opportunity to slow down, recharge, and connect with the natural world.

We are excited to start translating our nature wellness routines into different refugee languages working with STARTTS - so that nature-based health solutions can be accessed to those that need it most!

As part of an exchange program with Boston University, Macquarie University called on NatureFix to help showcase and deliver an afternoon information session on the benefits of nature connection as an important facilitator to environmental stewardship. Students were introduced to the NatureFix activities installed along the Watsons Bay as an important reminder that it is not just the contact with nature but the nature of the contact that counts.

We were delighted to spend the morning with renowned author of The Well Gardened Mind, Sue Stuart-Smith visit of our NatureFix trail sites at Pilot Hill, Bago State Forest. This trail being one of our highlights and community favourites the as part of the Snowy Valleys Nature Wellness Drive.

NatureFix is delighted to be installing its first Wellness Trail in South Africa! We have partnered with Nature’s Valley Trust (NVT), a small community-driven non-profit and registered urban conservancy working in the stunning Nature’s Valley area situated on the southern Cape of South Africa.

With a growing movement of nature connection taking place globally, Landcare Act called on NatureFix to showcase and co-deliver training on the benefits of nature connection and it’s role as a key facilitator of environmental stewardship. With over 60 registered participants, the training dived into the science of nature wellbeing, and explored the concept of “nature prescribing”, which is where individuals consciously notice and appreciate nature as part of a health care plan. As part of the training participants had an opportunity to try NatureFix’s 28 day nature prescription program, with many participants reporting significant changes in their relationship with nature.

BirdLife Australia and NatureFix have joined forces because we firmly believe that everyone has the right to access the benefits of nature and birds. Thanks to the wonderful support from Bayside Council, you can soon enjoy our first Better with Birds Nature Wellness Trail located at Bardwell Valley Parklands. Designed to mindfully boost your wellbeing, the trail invites park visitors to take time to stroll along the creekline track and bond with birds. With such a wonderful array of birds, including the big and small, you will not be disappointed.

Thrilled to have Dr Miles Holmes, co-founder and co-director from NatureFix co-present with Dr Eric Brymer, chartered Psychologist from Southern Cross University, and Jennifer Wines and Jacinta Elphick, Disaster Recovery Clinicians from the Murrumbidgee Local Health District at this years Rural Mental Health Conference in Albury. Providing an overview of the scientific research of nature connection and in application using the Snowy Valley Wellness Drive as a case study.

We were delighted to have representatives from the Singapore National Parks Board visit and learn about our NatureFix installation at Cooper Park in Bellevue Hill, Woollahra. With Singapore being one of the greenest cities in the world, we were thrilled to spend time onsite and discuss the importance of having thriving networks of green spaces, where nature is restored into our urban environments as part of our everyday lives.

The Snowy Valleys Nature Wellness Drive was officially opened at Adelong Falls by NSW Chief Psychiatrist Dr Murray Wright. An important community health asset that is creating experiences and activities to help people connect with nature as a powerful way to improve health and wellbeing. The Drive links a series of wellness stops and walks throughout the Snowy Valleys from Adelong through to Khancoban.

As a new and exciting health experience, NatureFix is now an integral feature within some of Sydney’s major hospitals. Catering to patients, staff and visitors alike, the Nature Wellness Trails and Zones are helping transform hospital gardens and green spaces into wellness places.

The ACT Environmental Volunteers Conference aimed to set a new agenda on nature connection within the environment sector. With a growing movement of nature connection taking place globally, Landcare Act called on NatureFix to help showcase the benefits of nature connection as an important precursor to environmental stewardship and improved human-environmental relationship.

Excited to have Waminda Parker and Miles Holmes from NatureFix present at the #EACH2023 ASPIRE (Australian Social Prescribing Institute of Research and Education) conference, exploring how self-guided and facilitated nature prescriptions can increase engagement with nature to improve wellbeing and maximise the connective potential of existing green and blue spaces.

It is now understood that nature does not have a part time role in supporting our wellbeing, it is a basic psychological need… And the research is confirming that the benefits can be even better when it’s with birds! Learn why…

Unlock the wellbeing benefits of nature through short self-guided experiences carefully matched with the natural features along the Tumut riverbank. Offering eleven stations along the Rotary Pioneer and Bila Park walkways - a mix of sensory experiences and stories on the healing powers of country from local Wiradjuri knowledge. holders.

We invite you to pause, relax and dwell at the Snowy Valleys Pilot Hill Arboretum Nature Wellness Trail, Bago State Forest. Surrounded by sky reaching pine trees, you can expect to enjoy new perspectives as you look up and take in breathtaking canopy views from the Sky Seat, or tune into bird song amplified through the Listening Pod!

It is easy to write off time in nature where technology is present. But in a world that’s locked into screens, reigniting the flame of our intrinsic love and need for nature may require technology.

Dr. Matthew Zylstra from NatureFix delivers training to CapeNature's Stakeholder Engagement Officers to aid them in facilitating meaningful connective experiences for their diverse community groups. Providing insights on nature-based restorative opportunities and the health benefits for South Africans who are otherwise stuck in the everyday stresses of urban life.

Wonderful to have the opportunity to present at the Biolinks Alliance annual forum on the health benefits of nature and potential application in ecological restoration and regeneration. Providing new insights and opportunities of increasing cross-sector engagement to work on collective solutions for planetary health.