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'Surf Therapy Ltd’ uses the art of Surfing and Mental Health Nursing to enhance individual wellbeing. and Barker-Buchanan, P.

'Surf Therapy Ltd' offers a service providing professional mental health advice, support, intervention and psycho-education using the activity of surfing as a platform.

'Surf Therapy Ltd' (STL) has been a project in the making since 2009, beginning in the North island of New Zealand. I am a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) who provides an alternative platform for mental health and wellbeing intervention for individuals through the activity of surfing. As well as being employed by the NHS as Registered Mental Health Nurse, I have lived-experience of mental health difficulties; also being employed as a Peer Support Specialist within the NHS in the past. The concept of 'Surf Therapy' or 'Surfing as a therapy' has become a global collective movement backed by increasing research, leading to evidence-based practice. I combine my knowledge and skills as a professional mental health practitioner with my love and experience of surfing, creating a person centered holistic approach. I have a specific interest in Narrative Psychiatry and I often draw from the mental health nursing model 'The Tidal Model' (Barker and Buchanan-Barker 2005).

* Barker, P. (2005) 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭 : 𝘈 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴, UK: Routledge.

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Braunton

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+447745181080

Website

http://www.surftherapy.co.uk/

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“Using the Art of Surfing to Enhance Wellbeing” - (STL 2009)

STL offers a friendly, encouraging and uniquely person-centred approach to surfing. Combining professional mental health skills with the experience of Surfing.

STL is founded by a Mental Health Practitioner: a Registered Mental Health Nurse and experienced Surfer who has felt the positive impact that surfing can have on mental and physical health.

Taking part in such an enjoyable and demanding activity, you can become completely engaged and focused. You can reach the ultimate unselfconscious state of being. This is called a ‘flow experience’, a positive and

unique psychological state that has been linked to emotional wellbeing. Surfing can help people to achieve this psychological state in their life by fully engaging in the activity.

We share, learn from and develop our practice frameworks with other like-minded organisations throughout the world. Surfing is quickly becoming globally recognised for its therapeutic benefits due to a combination of the ocean environment itself and the physical demands required in learning to surf.

Surfing can help improve self-efficacy. Trying something new and achieving goals can increase confidence in ability which in turn motivates us to try other things. We believe the activity of surfing can create transferable skills and offer new perspectives which can enhance our lives in a healthy and holistic way.

At STL we work with individuals to achieve meaningful and realistic goals as we believe everyone should take positives from surfing. We listen and guide so that a sense of pride and self-achievement can be facilitated. Personal achievement engenders self-esteem and can lead to subsequent feelings of emotional wellbeing.

To get a true reflection of the positive effects and benefits of surfing, STL developed a project: 'Through the Exposure' (STL 2016) which uses a simple reflective framework to gather personal narratives in an attempt to provide evidence that at times surfing could be used as a therapeutic tool in mainstream healthcare.

STL 2009