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Health & Nature

Seven Waves has extensive knowledge and experience in the field of nature, green space and health.

Seven Waves has extensive knowledge and experience in the field of nature, green space and health, both in terms of managing strategic and operational processes, including as Executive of Nature For Health and Dutch program leader for Green Mental Health, and (helping to) develop and carrying out projects and initiatives that strengthen nature and health, such as Nature on Prescription (for primary care), Healing Landscape and Green for Healthcare.

To this end, Seven Waves works together with foundations, the healthcare sector, municipalities, residents’ initiatives, educational and research institutions, social organizations and international organisations.

In 2020 – in the heart of the corona era – the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) complimented the Nature For Health president and Rob Wolters in a public video for the “Healing Landscapes” initiative, stating, in line with our proposal, that nature must be priority number 1 in social recovery from the corona pandemic.

Do you have ambitions or challenges regarding the relationship between health, sustainability and nature? Please get in touch.

 

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Nature, green space and health

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Health & Nature Experience

Examples

  • Executive Nature For Health Foundation (www.nfhfoundation.com)
  • Domain Coordinator Health – Dutch Agenda Nature-inclusive
  • Member of the Board of Commissioners of mental health organisation BuurtzorgT
  • Author Business plan for professionalization Nature For Health
    National program leader NFH Natuur op Recept – aimed at primary care) (www.natuuroprecept.nl)
  • National program leader Green Mental Health (NFH/IVN) – focused on the integration of nature in the mental health sector, with an emphasis on – currently – 15 green frontrunners (mental health institutions) (www.groenggz.nl)
  • NFH project leader Passion for people and green residential care parks, ‘s-Heeren Loo (the largest provider of care for people with an intellectual handicap in the Netherlands)
  • Project partner Groene voor de Zorg, scientific project coordinated by VU-Amsterdam aimed at integrating nature/green in and around healthcare institutions, including hospitals
  • Contributions to international articles and books on health and nature, including the article “Nature on our Urban Minds” (for IUCN – World Conservation Union) and the book “Social Development Challenges” (chapter on public health)
  • Project leader Healing Landscape and Van Gogh Healing Landscape Days 2020 and 2021, with national and international seminars on nature-inclusive health and on Green & Healthy Destinations
  • Partner of the Dutch Green Deal Sustainable Healthcare.
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Inspirator, connector and manager

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Who am I?

I am Rob Wolters, inspirator, connector and manager, and have been working passionately for several decades on shaping new social and economic paradigms, connections, innovations and partnerships, in which nature and sustainability are central. Both nationally and internationally.