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Local Update, 28 August 2023
Barnet Voice for Mental Health
020 3475 1314
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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.
Inclusion Barnet News and Events
Inclusion Barnet Job Vacancies
Final reminder: We currently have five job vacancies at Inclusion Barnet. You can find out more about them on Charity Jobs:-
Events and News from the Web
Service Users and Carers Forum Survey (From North London Mental Health Partnership)
North London Mental Health Partnership want your feedback about their service user and carers forums. Their service user and carer forums are a safe space to come together to share experiences, chat with fellow service users and carers, and learn from one another to help improve and develop the care and services that they provide. They would like to hear your ideas about what would make a great forum. Please take the survey by scanning the QR code in the image above or by following the link. You will get a chance to win a £25 voucher. Survey closes 9th September 2023.
The Science Behind Mental Health [Free Webinar] (From Mindspring Mental Health Alliance), Wednesday 30 August, 4.00 - 5.00pm
Diagnosing mental illness isn't like diagnosing other chronic diseases. Are mental health disorders best understood as physical illnesses that affect the brain? Or do these disorders belong in a category all their own? Explore the causes, treatment, and prevention of mental illness and separate myths & facts in this often-misunderstood topic.
Discrimination, Fear, and Mental Health in LGBTQIA+ Communities [Free] (From Mindspring Mental Health Alliance), Wednesday 30 August, 6.00 - 7.00pm
LGBTQIA+ adults are three times more likely to experience a mental health disorder than individuals who identify as straight. Discuss what factors impact this statistic, how to find supportive professionals, ways of coping, and how to be a true ally in this one-hour seminar with a licensed therapist.
Book Discrimination, Fear, and Mental Health in LGBTQIA+ Communities [Free]
Barnet Wellbeing Service Review questionnaire
The Barnet Wellbeing Service offers many different services and activities to help you with your mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Barnet Council would like to know what you think about these services and activities. They want to gather as many different opinions and experiences as possible. This will help them make sure that the services they provide in the future are based on what our residents need.
Please let them know your thoughts by completing the short form below whether you have used the services or not. If you can, it would be great if you could pass this message and the form to family members and friends for them to complete as well.
Barnet Wellbeing Service Review (office.com)
The last day to share your thoughts is 31 August 2023.
Asking for Support: How to Talk About Mental Health [Free Webinar] (From Mindspring Mental Health Alliance), Tuesday 29 August, 6.00 - 7.00pm
Deciding to share information about mental health is a personal decision that often has to be made more than once. Discuss what factors to consider when making the decision and how to make the disclosure when the time feels right.
Book Asking for Support: How to Talk About Mental Health [Free Webinar]
Free Webinar: Food & Exercise: Does it Really Help My Mental Health? (From Mid West ARIES), Wednesday 30 August, 2.00 - 3.00pm
Can certain foods improve our mood? What types of exercises are most beneficial for our mental health? What are some practical ways we can include healthy food and exercise habits into our routine?
Book Free Webinar: Food & Exercise: Does it Really Help My Mental Health?
Free Workshop: How Can I Find Meaning in My Life and Feel More Empowered? (From Mid West ARIES), Tuesday 29 August, 2.00 - 4.00pm
In this workshop they will examine what gives a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives. They will reflect on what empowerment means and explore an understanding and experience of empowerment and disempowerment in mental health.
Book Free Workshop: How Can I Find Meaning in My Life and Feel More Empowered?
Zero Suicide Alliance Lunch and Learn, World Suicide Prevention Day (From Barnet Wellbeing Service), Wednesday 13 September, 11.00am - 1.00pm
To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, Barnet Wellbeing Service is holding a free lunch and learn event in partnership with Barnet Public Health. They will deliver Zero Suicide Alliance Training where you will learn how to start a life saving conversation with someone considering suicide.
Podcasts
HSJ Podcast: Patient experience in the post-covid era (From HSJ)
Chris Graham of the Picker Institute and Jacob Lant from charity National Voices join host Annabelle Collins to discuss the crash in patient experience revealed by recent national surveys, how the findings should be used to improve quality and reduce health inequalities, and whether there is a bigger role for “real-time” experience measures.
Listen to HSJ Podcast: Patient experience in the post-covid era
Podcast: Start a mindfulness routine for mental health (From Sanford Health)
Therapists working in primary care clinics share how to practice calm by being present
Listen to Podcast: Start a mindfulness routine for mental health
Articles
At Home With The Furys: Critics praise mental health depiction in Netflix show (From the BBC)
Critics have praised Tyson Fury's new docu-series for shining a light on his mental health issues.
While most reviews agreed Netflix's At Home With The Furys was lightweight overall, many highlighted its depiction of the boxer's day-to-day struggles.
Read At Home With The Furys: Critics praise mental health depiction in Netflix show
"I have been in bad places so I know my triggers": Leah Williamson talks football, taking care of her mental health on tour and her top travel tips (From CN Traveller)
A discussion with captain Leah Williamson about all things football, keeping on top of her mental health while travelling and her favourite destinations around the world
How to beat loneliness - virtually and in real life (From Mirage News)
Loneliness and social isolation are scourges of growing older. Many seniors are unable to maintain rewarding person-to-person connections due to restricted physical mobility, isolation, disconnection, and mental health issues.
Aston Youth Street Project cricketer on how the sport helped him deal with grief (From the BBC)
It's unsurprising that, as a British Pakistani boy growing up in Birmingham, Bilawal Latif's cricketing hero is Moeen Ali.
The England all-rounder started his career in Sparkhill, just five miles away from where 14-year-old Bilawal lives.
Inspired by his hero, Bilawal saw cricket as an enjoyable hobby until it soon also became a necessary escape that helped him navigate grief.
Read Aston Youth Street Project cricketer on how the sport helped him deal with grief
Teach young people to accept and value who they are (From the Guardian)
Retired consultant psychotherapist Martin Wells on tackling a culture that is causing increasing mental health problems in children
Mental health: 'Photography saved me from myself' (From the BBC)
Five years ago Steve Liddiard's mental health had deteriorated to the point where he was suicidal and felt "bricked up" inside his own mind.
When his GP advised him to take up walking he decided to take a camera - unbeknown to him, that was to be the start of his recovery.
Regular Events on the Web
Poetry Therapy (From Nation's Finest), Monday 28 August, 9.30 - 10.30pm
Join this class and de-stress with poetry! You will learn the structure of micro poems such as American Sentence, Haiku, and Sijo. Examples included for each form. Second half of class will be used for writing, sharing your work is optional.
Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety (From Step8up Mindly), Tuesday 29 August, 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.
Book Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety
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.
Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents (From Jounita Wright), Thursday 31 August, 7.00 - 10.00pm
This is a free online event for any parent/carer of adolescents aged 13-20 concerned with behaviour change.
Book Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents
Online ADHD Support Group (From Tim Kiver Foundation), Tuesday 12 September, 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
International Wellbeing Support Group (From Rain on Me), Monday 4 September, 5.30pm
A free, international safe space to vent and grow with people who understand and accept you.
Regular Events in Barnet
Andy's Man Club in Barnet, Every Monday at the Meritage Centre, 7.00 - 9.00pm
Andy's Man Club run talking groups for men who have either been through a storm, are currently going through a storm, have a storm brewing in life or just want to meet a good group of people with the aim of improving one another. No referral, no registration and no charge. Even the brew and biscuits are free!
The Meritage Centre,
Church End,
London
NW4 4JT
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
More information about Meridian Wellbeing events and activities
Barnet Carers
Barnet Carers provides support and information for unpaid, informal, carers across the London Borough of Barnet. Includes yoga, meditation and mindfulness.
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.
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
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 (supporting disabled people in Barnet to access the benefits they are entitled to).
Touchpoint (supports people experiencing any form of disability in Barnet to access the services and resources they need).
Healthwatch Barnet (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 www.inclusionbarnet.org.uk
Useful links for mental health and wellbeing
Click on the title to go to the individual websites.
LOCAL
- Mind in Barnet - counselling
- Mind in Barnet Sanctuary - find calm, make space, move forward
- Barnet Wellbeing Service
- 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 - free online emotional support sessions
- Good Thinking - free online Mental Wellbeing for London
- Kooth - free, safe and anonymous online support for young people
- Qwell - free online safe and confidential space to share & support
Shout - free, 24/7 text messaging support - text SHOUT to 85258 - Samaritans - free phone & email support in a crisis
- Useful links from Sussex University - 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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