How Mindful Photography Supports Mental Health and Changes Thinking

I’d love to share a video from the recent Mindful Photography UK Project Open the Door.

I delivered the initial project during lockdown whilst teaching photography online and it was of course also strongly influenced by my favourite poem by Czech poet Miroslav Holub.

You can see some of the participant images in this short video here

Click below ⬇️

https://express.adobe.com/video/5oRJ3GFVRRAe8

I’m running this same workshop twice again this year in September and November and you can book here ⬇️

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-the-door-a-mindful-photography-project-tickets-210680810977

Thank you to all the participants for allowing me to share their images.

Go and open the door.
Maybe outside there’s
a tree, or a wood,
a garden,
or a magic city.

Go and open the door.
Maybe a dog’s rummaging.
Maybe you’ll see a face,
or an eye,
or the picture
of a picture.

Go and open the door.
If there’s a fog
it will clear.

Go and open the door.
Even if there’s only
the darkness ticking,
even if there’s only
the hollow wind,
even if
nothing
is there,
go and open the door.

At least
there’ll be
a draught.