Erika Feng is a landscape architect holding a Master’s degree in Urban Health from UCL. Her work focuses on designing equitable landscapes, with particular attention to how green spaces are experienced by different groups across diverse cultural and social contexts. She is involved as a visual designer in the Reflective Walks project, where she draws on her background in landscape architecture to explore and communicate the healing potential of green spaces.
Jane Faulkner is an accredited member of BACP and a Forest Bathing Practitioner; specialising in grief and loss. She has worked therapeutically in a variety of venues in addition to private practice. She has extensive experience of designing and delivering training, facilitating groups and most has been leading grief walks for the 2 years.
Dr Kamil McClelland is a GP trainee and recently completed a Masters in Urban Health at UCL. Following personal experience of grief, he became interested in the healing potential of greenspaces and so became involved in the Reflective Walks project. He has a background in global health and humanitarian medicine and has a particular interest in medical care for marginalised groups, including migrants and people experiencing homelessness.
Emma Shaw is led by a deep care for the Earth, and has spent the last decade supporting various eco-projects and charities in conservation, rewilding and regenerative food growing. She offers Nature Walks and Forest Bathing Sessions to facilitate a journey of reconnection between us and nature. www.walkingroots.co.uk
Ana Tunaru holds an MSc in Health Psychology and is a trained Mindfulness Teacher, Forest Bathing Guide, and mental health educator. She has over 12 years experience working within the NHS, Recovery Colleges, co-facilitating courses on personal recovery, mental health, and wellbeing for local communities in London. Her work also includes community-based mental health and wellbeing projects internationally, including with Doctors Without Borders in India and Body, Mind, and Spirit in Romania. These experiences have shaped her commitment to culturally grounded, inclusive approaches to mental health recovery and holistic wellbeing.
The walks have been funded by the Walking and Cycling Grants London which offers grants to projects and organisations that encourage London’s diverse communities to walk and cycle more often. More details are here
