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“I described my ideal holiday and was given a gorgeously sensual non-contact massage with words. Refreshing and hard to wake up from. I felt totally preened!” Babs Guthrie, Digital Marketing at the National Maritime Museum
“We really enjoyed Space Time Travel and Sara was excellent. It was a calming and positive experience. It also provided a new and imaginative way of engaging with photography.”
Ria Bartlett, Learning Programmes Manager, The British Library
“On a dank, miserable British day, the experience of a Space Time Travel holiday did indeed seduce me into thinking I’d just crept away for a couple of weeks on a wonderfully restorative break (though I’m keeping the location to myself…). Just the thing to revive the spirits, and since then I’ve often returned in my mind to that destination, which never fails to give a little lift.”
Lizzie Ostrom, Director, Scratch + Sniff
‘I would say that I definitely felt smilier and more upbeat after my trip to the beach. I really enjoyed using the pictures to help express how I felt. The experience itself was relaxing (and the ice cream was fun). As I wandered home through the urban sprawl I kept the image of the beach in my mind and this helped me feel a bit more light-hearted about life.’
R (former inpatient at SLAM, Acute Psychiatric Ward)
“I had such a wonderful experience, during my holiday it just felt so real and of course the pain in my right shoulder and arm just disappearing was amazing, I have not been able to stop telling my colleagues about it and the feeling I had after: refreshed, energised and relaxed. In fact some colleagues at the event remarked how relaxed I looked compared to about 20 minutes earlier.”
John Hunt, Team Leader, CMHT, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
(SLAM Nursing Leadership Conference, Staff Wellbeing, Feb 2015)
“Accessible, enriched, refreshed – a holiday experience to treasure and keep. I will revisit this favourite personalized place.”
JF
“It was beautiful, cathartic and healing, thanks.”
HC, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
(SLAM Nursing Leadership Conference, Staff Wellbeing, Feb 2015)
“I feel relaxed and loved the holiday, would love to go back again. It was fantastic.”
LP, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
(SLAM Nursing Leadership Conference, Staff Wellbeing, Feb 2015)
“After the session, I felt warm, happy, content and inspired. Wonderful!!”
TG, Ward Manager, Woodland House Adolescent Unit, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM Nursing Leadership Conference, Staff Wellbeing, Feb 2015)
“Thank you so much for the Space Time Travel holidays for nurses sessions you ran last Thursday, the feedback we have received has been extremely positive, with comments such as “inspirational” and “wonderful experience”, your time with each person was really valued.”
Amanda Pithouse, Acting Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, (SLAM Nursing Leadership Conference, Staff Wellbeing, Feb 2015)
“I mentioned you in my latest post. Still thinking about what a wonderful experience my “holiday” with you was:
I’ve felt pretty stressed out over the last few weeks and the perfect antidote was visiting Marina Abramović’s new show Gates and Portals at Modern Art Oxford.
Read the article ‘Holding hands in the museum’, my response to the exhibition.
It’s made me reflect on how we can be more caring in public places. I didn’t write about it in the article but now I’m reflecting on a great work by artist Sara Haq @monkeytreepro called Space Time Travel Holidays where she acts as your travel agent before taking you to your dream holiday destination via meditation. What would happen if everyone experienced Sara’s work before entering the rest of an exhibition? How would their experience of the rest of the art and of the museum be different?”
Debbie Meniru, Curatorial Assistant, Hayward Gallery, 2022