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Local Update, 29 May 2023

Barnet Voice for Mental Health [[link removed]]

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Welcome to our weekly newsletter about mental health services and support available in Barnet and beyond. Also bringing you updates on Inclusion Barnet mental health news. Produced by Ed Peston, Communications Assistant.

Events and News from the Web Online Lunch Time Networking – About Mental Health - Monthly Meeting (From Health Choices Global), Friday 2 June, 12.30 - 1.30pm

Whether you work in mental health care, are a mental health advocate, or simply have a personal interest in the topic, this event is the perfect opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and share your experiences and knowledge.

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Talking MS, Talking Mental Health (From MS Society Living Well Team), Wednesday 31 May, 6.30 - 7.30pm

These sessions are for anyone living with MS in the UK. They are a great way to get together to chat and share your experiences.

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UK LGBTQ+ unpaid Carers: Online Coffee Meetups (From Wandsworth Carers Centre), Wednesday 31 May, 6.00 - 7.00pm

An online space for LGBTQ+ people who are unpaid Carers, (supporting someone practically, emotionally or personally), to chat/share advice

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SING! and Learn Virtual: No Name, No Voice (From SING! Toronto International Vocal Arts Festival), Tuesday 30 May, 5.30pm

Singing is for everyone, and everyone has a voice, but what does that mean in practice? The Choir with No Name UK build choirs for people affected by homelessness. CEO of Choir with No Name, Kate Wareham, will share some of the practical ways in which each of their six choirs create joyful singing communities and aim to be supportive safe spaces for people going through tough times.

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Monthly Online Group for Women with Autistic Traits (From Dr Ariana Jordan), Friday 2 June, 7.45 - 9.00pm

A monthly online group for women aged 25+ who recognise autistic traits within themselves, whether formally or self -diagnosed.

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Caregiver Coffee - Reminiscence in Caregiving (From MemoryLane Care Services), Wednesday 31 May, 7.00 - 8.00pm

People living with dementia struggle with short-term memory limitations. Recalling memories from the past is a great way to connect.

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Podcasts Podcast | Deepak Chopra has advice for your mental wellness (From Crosscut)

The author and doctor explains how treating the mind and the body as one can help stop humanity from sleepwalking to extinction.

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Podcast: Will psychedelic drugs transform mental health treatment? (From the Guardian)

Psychedelic drugs have long been been used for their mind-altering effects. Now, they are making their way into western medicine as a treatment for mental health disorders.

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Articles London charity harnessing artificial intelligence to improve young people’s mental health (From South West Londoner)

In a pioneering new scheme, Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind (HFEH Mind) is offering 13 to 18-year-olds a free premium subscription to Wysa, an artificial-intelligence (AI) powered chatbot that can provide 24/7 mental health support.

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London men's mental health group to host photo exhibition (From the BBC)

The founder of a men's mental health initiative in London is hosting a photography exhibition.

Scott Johnson, 36, from Bermondsey in south London, started The Proper Blokes Club in September 2020.

It brings men together on a weekly basis to walk in their neighbourhood and talk about struggles they are facing.

The exhibition will profile members and look at how walking and talking has improved their mental health.

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Mental Health Awareness Week: the benefits of access to nature (From British Ecological Society)

How can nature help improve and support our mental health? Three experts: an ecologist, a mental health nursing lecturer and a psychotherapist, share their insights.

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Online depression therapy: How does it work and why has it been criticised? (From Evening Standard)

Mental Health Awareness Week has coincided with the NHS in England green-lighting new online therapy treatments for anxiety and depression

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The 'wonder drug' to improve your mental health (From Sport England)

The benefits of physical activity are well evidenced, playing a role in both protecting us from ill-health and in managing and alleviating mental health struggles and, for this reason, physical activity is often described as a ‘wonder drug’.

However, it remains as one of the most under-utilised public health interventions.

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Opening up about his anxiety and depression helped this former Google executive be a better leader (From Fortune)

When leaders of public companies and other high-profile institutions start speaking openly about their experiences with depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges, the veil of shame that conceals many of these conversations at work starts to lift.

Read Opening up about his anxiety and depression helped this former Google executive be a better leader [[link removed]]

The definition of mental health has been widened so much that it’s now almost meaningless (From the Guardian)

In our newly aware world, serious conditions such as psychosis and schizophrenia are overlooked

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Regular Events on the Web Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety (From Step8up Mindly), Tuesday 30 May, 12.30 - 1.00pm

Join this session each week to know how easy it is to manage day to day mental wellbeing, especially general anxiety, using methods which are practical and easy.

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Online wellbeing workshops from Mid West Aries

Offering a range of free courses online via Zoom. Anyone over the age of 18 with an interest in mental health and well-being can sign up for the courses.

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Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents (From Jounita Wright), Thursday 1 June, 7.00 - 10.00pm

This is a free online event for any parent/carer of adolescents aged 13-20 concerned with behaviour change.

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Online ADHD Support Group (From Tim Kiver Foundation), Tuesday 13 June, 7.30 - 9.00pm

A safe place for anyone interested in ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in ANY way to share experiences and learn more about:

• What ADHD is

• How ADHD affects peoples every day life

• Ways to manage ADHD symptoms

• How to seek medical help for ADHD

• The Facts and Fiction that surround ADHD

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International Wellbeing Support Group (From Rain on Me), Monday 5 June, 5.30pm

A free, international safe space to vent and grow with people who understand and accept you.

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Regular Events in Barnet Meridian Wellbeing in Barnet

A range of events and activities in Barnet and online including Barnet Wellbeing Hub, Barnet IAPT, Wellbeing Cafe, Wellbeing Workshops, Chinese Wellbeing Services, Supportive Online Communities

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Barnet Carers

Barnet Carers provides support and information for unpaid, informal, carers across the London Borough of Barnet. Includes yoga, meditation and mindfulness.

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Building Friendship

Building Friendship is a free weekly drop in every Friday for those with mental health difficulties.

Meet at East Barnet Baptist Church hall, EN4 8PS. Come along for a cup of coffee and a friendly chat between 10am and 12noon.

For more information email: [[email protected]]. Or leave a message with your name and contact number on 020 8449 5320.

Do you feel isolated or lonely? Come along to Building Friendship. Free. remaining info repeats in main article." width="503" src=" Weekly online social group from Mind in Enfield and Barnet, Fridays from 6.00 - 7.00pm

This group takes place by Zoom, and the session is broken up into a few casual activities such as:

Catch up about each other’s week

Play a quiz where everybody provides 3 questions

Share and discuss TV, movies and news that has inspired us this week

If you would like to attend, please email Sam Brown at [[email protected]]

Mind and Mood Support Group

We celebrated our eighth successful year on 4th January 2023 and have a group of regular attendees (usually around 6, but this may vary). The first half of the meeting our Guest Speaker speaks (on the day we have one) for approx. 20 mins, following this members are free to ask questions. Then half-way through, about 6.45 we have a comfort break with tea, coffee and biscuits. The second half, we all share our experiences of where we are since the last meeting.

The group is facilitated by Sandra Turner and Peter Sartori, both with considerable experience of the mental health system.

Since the Pandemic. Our group has gone through necessary changes. One week our group meets via Zoom from 6-7.15pm. Alternate wks. we meet, in person at 55 Christchurch Avenue 6-7.30pm. No-one is allowed to join our meetings without prior arrangement.

If there is anything else you wish to know, please do not hesitate to contact:

Peter Sartori e: mailto:[[email protected]] m: 07947 713306 Sandra Turner e: [[email protected]]

If you wish to subscribe to our monthly “Creativity & Wellbeing Newsletter” please email Sandra with “Subscribe to Newsletter” in the subject of your email.

About Inclusion Barnet

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We are a Peer-Led Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation (DDPO).

Nearly all of our directors and staff have lived experience of disability, including mental health issues and/or long-term health conditions.

We believe that learning to use our lived experience for social change is a skill. We have become experts in harnessing the lived experience of our staff, members, volunteers and the people who use our services to design and deliver higher quality, more person-centred services.

Other services run by Inclusion Barnet that you might be interested in are:

Benefits Advice Service [[link removed]] (supporting disabled people in Barnet to access the benefits they are entitled to).

Touchpoint [[link removed]] (supports people experiencing any form of disability in Barnet to access the services and resources they need).

Healthwatch Barnet [[link removed]] (an independent, statutory organisation dedicated to improving health and social care services in Barnet).

For more information about the wider range of other work we do please visit our website [[link removed]]

Useful links for mental health and wellbeing

Click on the title to go to the individual websites.

LOCAL

Mind in Barnet [[link removed]] - counselling Mind in Barnet Sanctuary [[link removed]] - find calm, make space, move forward Barnet Wellbeing Service [[link removed]]BEH-MHT* crisis helpline 0800 151 0023 24/7, 365 days a year.

(*BEH-MHT = Barnet, Enfield Haringay - Mental Health Trust)

LONDON & NATIONAL

The Help Hub [[link removed]] - free online emotional support sessions Good Thinking [[link removed]] - free online Mental Wellbeing for London Kooth [[link removed]] - free, safe and anonymous online support for young people Qwell [[link removed]] - free online safe and confidential space to share & support

Shout [[link removed]]- free, 24/7 text messaging support - text SHOUT to 85258 Samaritans [[link removed]] - free phone & email support in a crisis Useful links from Sussex University [[link removed]] - lots of useful links to MH resources

Independent Living Centre, c/o Barnet & Southgate College,

7 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London NW9 4BR

Inclusion Barnet is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

Registered Charity Number: 1158632

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