Facilitating a recovery pathway for injured service personnel and their families and assistance in transitioning into heritage for our serving personnel.
Very proud of this article in a Ukrainian journal, expanding analysis of heritage-based interventions delivering benefits to veterans through work with UK, Georgian & Ukrainian veterans. More work needed though @K_J_Burnell @DickieBennett2 @AMPHORA_MHWB
https://t.co/Cl6noZ4MyY
ONLINE TALK: 20 October.
Prof Peter Stone, President of Blue Shield and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection & Peace (Newcastle University): 'Protecting cultural heritage during armed conflict’. Part of @UniofNewcastle Discover programme:
Link: https://t.co/K2SN7F9iUo
Our guidelines benefited enormously from the contribution of the archaeological initiatives that work with veterans and serving personnel. Their support and endorsement is hugely important to us: Op Nightingale; Defence Archaeology Group; @AVAR_USA@BreakingGroundH@DigWaterloo
We are immensely proud to have contributed towards @AMPHORA_MHWB guidelines for mental health and wellbeing in heritage, with @SolentUni and @_UoW. Check it out here 👉 https://t.co/Pqg3hKY6H9
Delighted to launch our guidance documents today, on #WorldMentalHealthDay. The three toolkits, produced via rigorous stakeholder research, support heritage-based therapeutic initiatives to deliver mental health benefits to participants
Here we go then. Guidelines/ toolkits ready, press releases finalised, web pages set up. Have a great weekend everyone; Monday promises to be a busy day! See you back here
The #KindnessByPost Autumn exchange is open for registration! The theme is: "Letting go" 🍂🍁Sign up at https://t.co/sm5Aw5jQ0a by 9pm on Tuesday 4th October to be part of it!
A new project for some of our beneficiaries through @wessexarch. Defensive Links: The military history of Burntisland community archaeology project - https://t.co/CQpEFP9Bi5
The draft text of the Op Nightingale book is with publishers and now the pleasure of selecting photos with the incredible @beardysnapper and discussing wellbeing with @DickieBennett2 . Illustrations next then on the shelves in spring!! #Archaeology#wellbeing#veterans
This really was a fantastic project from an archaeological and social perspective. Bringing new people into heritage whilst establishing a fantastic community of locals with @AldbournArchive and our (ex)military participants. #Wellbeing
Earlier this summer, DIO archaeologists led an excavation of a Saxon cemetery on Salisbury Plain, alongside military personnel and veterans on the #OpNightingale programme. Watch our short video featuring photography by @beardysnapper for a unique glimpse into the project: