Whilst numerous studies demonstrate the short-term benefits of being in and engaging with natural spaces on improving an individual’s physical and emotional wellbeing, the extent of the sustainability of these benefits are still to be established, as well as how individuals incorporate them into their life for long-term wellbeing. The aim of my research is to understand how participants engage with facilitated nature based interventions to improve their long-term wellbeing, by exploring the human and non-human relationships they formed during the activities and the influence of these on their everyday lives. It is proposed that participants co-create with the nature based intervention an assemblage (composed of relating human and non-human elements), which they have to negotiate in context of their pre-existing assemblages (including relationships with important others, their self and nature, as well as the cultural, economic and social spaces they inhabit) to realise the potential benefits of the facilitated intervention for their long-term wellbeing.

To develop understanding of how individuals negotiate these assemblages for their long-term wellbeing I will employ a qualitative approach and explore with them:
1. Their remembered experiences of natural spaces.
2. Their social interaction (human and non-human) at the nature based intervention and the influence of these on their long-term sense of self and wellbeing.
3. The influence of their experience of the nature based intervention on their everyday lives.