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Local Update, 29 April 2024
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.
Events and news from the web
Understanding high-functioning depression [free webinar] (from Mindspring Mental Health Alliance), Wednesday 1 May, 6.00 - 7.00pm
The official diagnosis for high-functioning depression is persistent depressive disorder, or PDD. The symptoms are similar to major depression but less severe, and many people with PDD are able to maintain a relatively normal level of functioning. But persistent fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration, and feeling hopeless puts people at higher-than-average risk for suicide and self-harm, and symptoms can continue indefinitely without treatment. Discuss the signs and symptoms of PDD, what causes it, and who is at risk in this one-hour seminar with a licensed therapist. Learn how PDD is treated, how lifestyle changes can help, and how to support loved ones with PDD.
NHS 111 service help in a mental health crisis
The NHS 111 service provides support for a mental health crisis by dialling 111 and choosing option 2 or via the website at https://111.nhs.uk/
Mental health & mental illness: what’s the difference? [free webinar] (from Mindspring Mental Health Alliance), Tuesday 30 April, 6.00 - 7.00pm
While these terms are often used interchangeably, mental health and mental illness are not the same -- and this misunderstanding can cause us to overlook the signs that someone needs help. This one-hour seminar provides an accessible guide to understanding what mental health is, the categories of mental illness, and how they’re treated. Separate myths & facts with a licensed therapist.
Mental health awareness in the workplace (online training from TWIN), Wednesday 1 May, 4.00 - 5.00pm
Register for this training session to learn:
How to define mental health without bias.
Why psychological and psychosocial safety is essential in the workplace.
Common workplace factors that contribute to mental fatigue.
Signs and symptoms of mental fatigue.
How to prioritizes mental wellbeing.
Mental health tune-up (online yoga and meditation class from Emily White), each Tuesday at 3.15pm
Maintaining good mental health is an essential foundation for our wellbeing and quality of life. Mental health symptoms naturally decrease with regular practice of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation.
Meditation for older adults (free online meditation) (from Online Meditation Events), Wednesday 8 May, 3.30 - 4.30pm
Older and wiser adults have many life experiences to know that stress and pain are not worth holding on to. As a result, they understand the meditation principle of ”Letting Go."" You will quickly feel the benefits of the practice.
Driving for Change Barnet
The Driving for Change Bus is current placed at:
Egerton Gardens car park, opposite Hendon Town Hall, NW4 on
Tuesdays between 19th March and 7th May, 10am - 4pm.
This is an engagement and awareness project that offers:
Oral health care
Nurse (onsite)
Hairdresser
HSBC No fixed Abode Bank account information
CGL - Drug and Alcohol service (Referrals and advice)
Pathways for homeless and vulnerable people
Virgin Media O2 data bank.
Mind in Enfield and Barnet wellbeing workshops and courses from Barnet and Southgate College, Summer 2024
All courses and workshops are FREE, and funded by Barnet & Southgate College and the Barnet Wellbeing Service. They are a mixture of face to face and online via zoom, and are available to adults over 18.
More information on wellbeing workshops and courses from Barnet and Southgate College
Podcasts
Podcast: Can going outside benefit my mental health? with Dr. Erin Engle (from New York Presbyterian)
Research has shown that the outdoors can improve a person’s mental and physical health. In honor of Earth Day, Faith is joined this week by Dr. Erin Engle, a psychologist from NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia to discuss the many ways that nature can reduce distractions and impact mood.
Listen to Podcast: Can going outside benefit my mental health? with Dr. Erin Engle
Podcast: Predictions for AI in mental health in the coming year (from Pharmaforum)
In a new episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh welcomes Dr Carl Marci, chief psychiatrist and managing director of mental health and neuroscience at OM1 to discuss predictions for AI in mental health in the coming year, as well as what might truly make a difference in the field and lessen the mental health crisis.
Listen to Podcast: Predictions for AI in mental health in the coming year
Articles
Biodiversity is nature’s ‘magic’ that improves peoples’ mental health (from Forbes)
Time spent in natural spaces with more biodiversity is associated with greater improvements in mental well-being than time spent in spaces with less natural diversity
Read Biodiversity is nature’s ‘magic’ that improves peoples’ mental health
Watching sports boosts well-being, offering positive psychological and neurophysiological benefits (from Jerusalem Post)
Research led by Prof. Shintaro Sato reveals watching sports enhances well-being, benefiting society.
Star-gazing: how astronomy can change your life (from the Article)
A growing number of researchers have found a connection between star-gazing and mental wellbeing, building upon the well-documented phenomenon that spending time surrounded by nature is good for mental health.
Is positive thinking a mistake? (from Psychology Today)
Two studies published last year cast a bit of shade on the power of positive thinking.
One of the more successful techniques is developing a positive mantra.
Anger can be useful when we are being wronged, and anxiety can alert us to challenges.
Regular Events on the Web
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.
Poetry therapy (online session from Nation's Finest), Monday 29 April, 9.30pm
Join this session 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. Please note the time above is UK time. The event takes place in the USA and if you book the time listed on your ticket will be USA time.
Music To remember (online event from Music Heals Minds), Tuesday 30 April, 7.00pm
These weekly virtual recitals with Nandani “Nani” Sinha and guests stimulate remembrance and gently invite reflection through familiar and bellowed songs.
Meditation For entrepreneurs (online event from Meditation Ventures) Monday to Friday 10.45am
Every weekday workday, a small, committed group of meditators begins their day relaxed and alert with like-minded innovators creating impact in the world today!
Laughing Fit - a weekly online laughter class for health & happiness (online group session from Jon Bockelmann-Evans), Tuesday 30 April, 8.00 - 8.30pm
A 30-minute laughter class filled with joy to boost your physical, mental and emotional health and leave you feeling great!
Book Laughing Fit - a weekly online laughter class for health & happiness
International wellbeing support group (From Rain on Me), Monday 6 May, 5.30pm
A free, international safe space to vent and grow with people who understand and accept you.
Regular Events in Barnet
Barnet Depression Alliance Peer Support Group
A local self-help group for people suffering from depression or depression with anxiety.
Meets twice a month – on a Tuesday evening in North Finchley and on a Monday evening online via Zoom. The group also runs social events throughout the year.
Address: North Finchley
Phone: 0754 118 7907
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.barnetdepressionalliance.org/
For more details of times and venue please telephone or email
Sanctuary in Barnet (from Mind in Enfield and Barnet)
Sanctuary in Barnet is a short-term crisis intervention and prevention service. They are open every day of the year, 4:30pm-10pm weekdays and 12-6pm weekends. They act as an A&E and Emergency services alternative, providing support to individuals in the Barnet Borough aged 18+.
Community wellbeing support (From Meridian Wellbeing, Mind Enfield and Barnet and Colindale Communities Trust)
Providing mental health and wellbeing support at the heart of the community.
Feeling worried about life or struggling?
Anxious?
Just need someone to talk to confidentially?
The cafe will provide:
Day time and evening access
One to one support from trained mental health wellbeing empowerment workers
Group workshops and training
Emotional health checks and personal action and safety plans
A safe space to be and crisis support out of hours
Help to build your resilience and self-management
Drop into the old library, every Thursday:
12pm - 5pm - emotional health check drop in
3pm - 5pm - crisis and well-being support drop-in
5pm - 8.pm - appointment-based crisis and well-being support
Helpline for immediate emotional support and enquiries 020 8906 7503.
For more information please drop into the Old Library on the Concourse, NW9 5XA or call Colindale Communities Trust (CCT) on 020 8200 3014
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 [email protected] or call 0208 906 7506.
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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