Therapeutic Landscapes: Ritual, Folklore, and Wellbeing

It's nearly time... Therapeutic Landscapes II: Ritual, Folklore and Wellbeing

Therapeutic Landscapes II is less than a month away, and in this episode, we take a look through the 2026 programme as the gathering begins to take shape. > Want to join us, get all the details here: https://www.therapeutic-landscapes.org/events [https://www.therapeutic-landscapes.org/events] The conference brings together artists, academics, practitioners, makers, performers, folklorists, researchers, and community workers exploring how place, story, ritual, creativity, memory, and embodied practice can support connection, care, and belonging. The episode highlights some of the fantastic panels and themes across the two days, including Re-Enchanted Landscapes, Experimental Archaeologies, Frolic, Misrule, and Creative Chaos, Pilgrimage, Procession, Pageantry, Making Communities, Magical Material Practice, Plants and Places, Haunted Landscapes, Folk Artefacts and Cultural Commons, and Writing Ourselves into the Land. The episode also celebrates the keynotes, workshops, performances, exhibition, and social gathering that will make the event feel less like a conventional conference and more like a meeting place for ideas, practices, people, and landscapes. Therapeutic Landscapes II: Ritual, Folklore and Wellbeing takes place on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th June 2026. View the full programme here: https://www.therapeutic-landscapes.org/programme-2026 [https://www.therapeutic-landscapes.org/programme-2026]

Therapeutic Landscapes: What Happened, What's Coming, and Why It Matters

In this second episode, Dr John Cussans and Desdemona McCannon look back at what made Year One so powerful: the keynotes, the workshops, the singers and storytellers, and the overwhelming sense from everyone who attended that they had finally found their people. They also look ahead. To a second year that's already shaping up to be bigger than the first, and to a longer vision of festivals, rural venues, and a network of practitioners, spaces and ideas that can keep nourishing each other long after the conference ends.

Therapeutic Landscapes Conference: Folk Culture, Healing Places, and How It All Began

In this first episode, conference organisers Dr John Cussans and Desdemona McCannon share the story of how the Therapeutic Landscapes conference came to be. From an earlier symposium called Enchanted Environments, through their shared interests in folk culture, arts and health, and the healing power of place, to the moment the first call for papers went out, and the response was better than they could have imagined.