Human Nature

So excited to hear we are finalists in two categories of the Healthy North Coast Primary Health Care Excellence Awards 2026: 🤩 Excellence in Innovation 🤩 Tyarna Larkin - Aboriginal Health Worker or Practitioner Excellence

Proud to see Human Nature recognised as a MyOutcomes: Advancing mental health care Gold Partner For us, measuring outcomes isn’t something that happens at the end of support; feedback is part of the therapy itself. We use MyOutcomes session by session to understand both how a young person is doing and, critically, how they are experiencing the therapeutic relationship. It gives young people a voice in their care and gives our practitioners the opportunity to respond, adapt and repair when something isn’t working. That matters enormously when you work with young people who have often struggled to engage with conventional services. Getting someone through the door isn’t the measure of engagement. Building a relationship they choose to keep coming back to is. Thank you to the MyOutcomes team for recognising Human Nature and for sharing our belief that listening, learning and measuring what matters should be embedded in everyday practice.

We’re published! 🌿 We’re incredibly proud to see Human Nature’s chapter published in Outdoor Health: Caring for People and Planet, a landmark new open-access publication bringing together practice, research and lived experience from across the international outdoor health field. A very special acknowledgement to Meaghan Vosz, PhD who co-authored Human Nature’s chapter with Andy Hamilton. The chapter so thoughtfully captures our approach to supporting young people through relationship, nature and adventure, taking evidence-informed mental health care beyond the clinic and into places where young people feel safe and able to engage. We’re also enormously grateful to the editors — Anita Pryor, Tonia Gray, @Cathryn Carpenter, Pauline Marsh, Andi Dickmeyer, Jacob Prehn and Ben Knowles for the extraordinary work involved in bringing together more than 70 contributors and creating this important resource for the growing outdoor health field. For Human Nature, it’s particularly meaningful to see a model developed alongside young people on the Far North Coast of NSW contributing to a growing international evidence base for doing mental health care differently. And even better, the book is open access, making this collective knowledge available to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and communities everywhere. https://lnkd.in/giMqyTs7 https://lnkd.in/gePG--9g #OutdoorHealth #AdventureTherapy #YouthMentalHealth #NatureBasedTherapy #HumanNature #MentalHealthInnovation

This Mental Health Month, the theme Together We Thrive resonates deeply with us at Human Nature. We know that mental health and wellbeing don’t happen in isolation. Connection, relationships and belonging matter. Every day, we see what becomes possible when young people have someone willing to meet them where they are, take the time to build trust, and walk alongside them for as long as it takes. For many young people, the barriers to support are not about an unwillingness to engage. They are about systems and models of care that haven’t been designed around what they need. That’s why Human Nature takes mental health support beyond the clinic and into the places young people feel safe to connect-in community and in nature. Because thriving isn’t something we do alone. #mentalhealthmonth #togetherwethrive * images are staff of Human Nature Adventure Therapy and models to preserve participant privacy

The James Frizelle Charitable Foundation is an extraordinary demonstration of the power of philanthropy. Just look at the number and range of small to medium sized not for profits who receive support to deliver their missions! Human Nature is so proud and grateful to be able to implement our employment, training and education support program based on the evidence-based IPS model in partnership with Orygen Thank you James and Trish Harris for making our part of the world a better place🙏💐❤️

Thanks to Business NSW - Northern Rivers for a wonderful night celebrating the fabulous businesses of the region at the annual Business NSW Awards. We were delighted to accept our Highly Commended Award for Excellence in Workplace Health and Wellbeing

Our CEO, Jennifer Parke, is committed to leading a model of care that centers relationship between participant and practitioner as a central part of a healing journey

Great to have Human Nature represented at these events by Andy Hamilton making new connections and catching up with old friends and supporters

Thank you OnImpact Media for this article about Human Nature . https://lnkd.in/g3tC23YQ For more than a decade, we have been doing the work of building a different response to youth mental health alongside young people who told us very clearly that, for so many, the way mental health care is traditionally delivered simply doesn’t work. So we took therapy and mentoring out of clinical settings and into the places young people feel able to engage- at home, at school, walking on the beach, fishing by a river. We’ve tested it, refined it, learnt from what didn’t work, independently evaluated it and achieved National mental health service accreditation - all through the power of philanthropy. And now we’re at a really interestingand slightly daunting point in our journey. We know the model works and now we need to work out how to take it to more young people, without losing what makes it work. That is why the conversation about catalytic capital is so relevant We’re preparing to replicate Human Nature in a second regional community. Not because we want to build a bigger organisation for the sake of it, but because we want to demonstrate that this model can work beyond the Far North Coast of NSW, and ultimately influence how mental health support is designed for young people who are excluded by the way services are traditionally delivered. So this is a call out. If you’re an impact investor, philanthropist, foundation or family office looking for a place where catalytic investment could help move a proven, innovative model into its next stage of impact, I’d love to have a conversation. We’ve done a lot of the hard work. Now we’re looking for people who want to help us answer the next question: how far could this go? And thank you again to OnImpact for continuing to create space for conversations about the kind of capital that makes this next stage possible.

We’re thrilled to be finalists in THREE categories at the Northern Rivers Regional Business Awards! 🎉 At Human Nature, we believe great work happens when innovation, people and purpose come together, so we’re especially proud to be recognised as finalists in: 🏆 Excellence in Innovation 🏆 Excellence in Workplace Health & Wellbeing 🏆 Excellence in Health, Care & Wellness Industries This recognition feels particularly special after last year, when Human Nature was Highly Commended in the Outstanding Community Organisation category. To be recognised again across three categories is a wonderful acknowledgement of the work our team puts in every day. And while we’re incredibly proud of our own recognition, these awards are also about celebrating the fabulous business community of the Northern Rivers. A huge congratulations to all the finalists. It’s inspiring to see so many local businesses, organisations, leaders and teams being recognised for the contribution they make to our region, their people, customers and communities. We’re looking forward to celebrating alongside you all and shining a light on the people, ideas and businesses that make the Northern Rivers such a special place to work, live and do business. Three finalist spots. One very proud Human Nature team. 💚 #NorthernRiversBusinessAwards #HumanNature #Innovation #WorkplaceWellbeing #HealthAndWellness #NorthernRivers #Finalists