£60 voucher

...can be redeemed against any of my creative online courses/zoom workshops

If you're buying this for a friend/loved one, please email me on emma at minniedog dot co dot uk to say hi and give me your postal address - I'll send you a beautiful card for you to give them for their birthday/at Christmas/whatever the occasion is. 

I'll also need their email address to I can enrol them on their chosen course/workshop, once any remaining payment is made

If you have any questions about how this works email me on the same address mentioned above and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Instructor

Emma Mitchell is an author, mental health advocate, naturalist, professional illustrator and designer-maker. She studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, spent time in academia studying molecular cell biology and was an technology consultant in emerging technologies in Silicon Fen until 2008, when her struggles with depression and anxiety led her to begin writing about the positive impact of both nature and time spent creatively on mental health.

Emma has written and presented films for BBC Springwatch and appeared on BBC Countryfile, Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Ramblings. She is a Guardian Country Diarist and has contributed pieces on nature and mental health for the Times, Big Issue, inews & Psychologies magazine.

Workshops

Emma has been teaching creative workshops with a focus on mental health for more than a decade. She taught Anita Rani to cast yarrow in silver on BBC Countryfile and has taught classes at the Victoria & Albert museum, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens and Highgrove.

In Emma's classes students learn the techniques needed to make and draw beautiful things, but crucially she combines this with teaching the science that explains why and how spending time creatively can shift  brain biochemistry to improve mental health.