Participatory Workshop:
COVID-19 and Outdoor Natural Spaces: Understanding and Utilizing Opportunities for Health Promotion
Friday 25th June: 13:00 -15:00
Organizers: Roald Pijpker & Marthe Derkzen, Health & Society, Wageningen University & Research
Participants: we invite researchers, practitioners and students, no specific knowledge or background is required.
NB: The workshop will take place in person at the WICC in Wageningen
We invite researchers, practitioners and students, no specific knowledge or background is required
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated public health responses have put a severe strain on people’s ability to maintain and develop their health and wellbeing. As a response to the continuously changing crisis context and consequences on our everyday life, natural outdoor spaces have become a resource in which people restore depleted physical, social, and mental resources. For example daily lunch walks, forest walks, community gardening etc.
Inspired by the salutogenic model of health, this participatory workshop aims to understand (1) how natural outdoor spaces have been mobilized as an everyday resource for our health and wellbeing during the pandemic and (2) how to maintain and further strengthen the (un)tapped potential of the outdoors for health promotion after the crisis. The workshop output will be used for developing an infographic about health promotion initiatives that emerged in natural outdoor spaces during the pandemic, which can guide health promotion practice and research in the post-COVID-19 area.
Using appreciative inquiry, we will facilitate a mutual dialogue in which we explore the current health-promoting initiatives in natural outdoor spaces (clarifying), why these initiatives are worth exploring in the workshop and how they emerged (appreciating). Consequently, we will discuss how the selected initiatives can serve as health promotion interventions after alleviating the measures and for what purposes (envisioning results), how their potential can be strengthened (co-constructing) and maintained (sustaining).
PUBLIC OUTDOOR SPACES AND COVID-19
Registration website for PUBLIC OUTDOOR SPACES AND COVID-19Agnès Patuanocovidsymposium.lar@wur.nl
Agnès Patuanocovidsymposium.lar@wur.nlhttps://event.wur.nl/126069
2021-06-24
2021-06-25
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Wageningen International Congress CentreWageningen International Congress CentreLawickse Allee 9 6701 AN Wageningen Netherlands