NatureFix app transforms hospital green spaces into places of wellbeing across NSLHD
In an initiative to promote wellbeing and wellness for staff and visitors, NatureFix was introduced at various sites across NSLHD.
Supported by a digital app, signage, mobile audio, research data, and promotional materials, the NatureFix program aims to connect people with nature in a meaningful way. The digital platform transforms some of NSLHD’s green spaces into wellness places, unlocking the health benefits of nature through short self-guided mindfulness experiences carefully matched with natural features known to improve wellbeing. Jonathan Noyes, NSLHD’s Population Health Promotion Operations Manager, said the program helped to foster a connection to nature. “Each wellbeing zone includes a series of short wellness audio routines designed to help increase self-care and encourage meaningful moments in nature to improve mood, energy, and focus,” he said. “This initiative provides our staff with wellbeing benefits and supports them to continue to provide high-quality patient care for the community.” But NatureFix offers more than just personal wellness. It also provides an opportunity to learn about the traditional custodians of the lands on which these sites are built.
“They can understand how our mob engaged with the land and the water. “The ability to have such strong cultural knowledge shared by Elders through stories is very powerful.” The app is available across five NSLHD sites—Royal North Shore, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai, Macquarie and Mona Vale hospitals, and the Manly Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice.
Adam Cryer, Project Manager, Community Inclusion and Capacity Building, NSLHD Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Service highlighted the program’s cultural impact. “The fantastic thing about the NatureFix app is that people are actually able to stand on Country, close their eyes, and feel how these places would have felt thousands of years ago,” Adam said.
(Left to right) Adam Cryer, Project Manager, Community Inclusion and Capacity Building, NSLHD Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Service, Uncle Laurie Bimson, who speaks on the audio routines, and Population Health Promotion Operations Manager Jonathon Noyes, at the Manly Adolescent and Young Adult Hospice NatureFix Zone
For more information view the NSLHD NatureFix website: https://bit.ly/NSLHD-NatureFix.
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