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Local Update, 3 June 2024

Barnet Voice for Mental Health [[link removed]]

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 Community mental health: what next for systems? (webinar from Rethink Mental Illness), Thursday 6 June, 12.30 - 2.00pm

The drive to transform Community Mental Health services remains a crucial part of the NHS Long-Term Plan. At a time of great need and uncertainty, this webinar asks leaders from across mental health systems; how do we continue to build on the momentum of transformation? What have been the key lessons learned and where do we go from here?

Book Community mental health: what next for systems? [[link removed]]

Barnet Wellbeing Service

Looking for mental health support? The Barnet Wellbeing Hub is a fantastic resource for residents in Barnet, offering a one-stop shop, linking you to services and activities in the community for mental health and wellbeing support. [[link removed]] 03333 449 088 | [[email protected]]

Sensory Walk - Barnet, Victoria Recreation Ground (from Sense), each Thursday, 11.00am

Sensory walks allow you to use your senses to connect with your surroundings whilst you stay active. Taking part in this activity will help you to develop social connections, explore the use of your senses, and support your health and fitness.

The sensory walk at Victoria Recreational Ground runs every Thursday, 11am - 12noon. The meeting point is outside New Barnet Leisure Centre cafe. The session will last one hour and will consists of 30 minutes walking, plus yoga exercises; breathing, stretching and meditation.

Further information on Sensory Walk - Barnet, Victoria Recreation Ground and book [[link removed]]

James' Place

James' Place offer free, life-saving treatment for men who are experiencing a suicidal crisis.

Who they help:-

Men (and people who identify as men) age 18 +

Men in London and surrounding area

Men in the North East

Men in the North West

Men experiencing a suicidal crisis

Men willing and able to engage in talking therapy

Registered with a GP – or eligible for registration

More information on James' Place [[link removed]]

Healing from within: meditation for mental health (from Cate Zoltan), Saturday 8 June, 2.00 - 3.00pm

Through natural meditation, learn to reconnect with your deepest held feelings, accessing the body's natural forces to heal mental and physical distress.

Book Healing from within: meditation for mental health [[link removed]]

Smile with chronic illness! Mid-morning session (online peer support drop-in from Rogue Debby CIC), Tuesday 4 June, 10.30 - 11.30am

If you're stuck on finding 'smiles' in your life, this session will remind your face how those muscles work again.

Book Smile with chronic illness! Mid-morning session [[link removed]]

Unprocessed: What your diet is doing to your brain (webinar from York Festival of Ideas), Wednesday 5 June, 12.00 - 1.00pm

Find out how nutrition influences everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence, as we discover how food affects our brain.

Book Unprocessed: What your diet is doing to your brain [[link removed]]

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Podcasts Podcast: Teens want therapy. Are they getting it? (from P.S Weekly)

This week’s episode of P.S. Weekly looks at teen mental health, zooming in on one mother and daughter’s opposing views on therapy, and zooming out to look at New York City’s ambitious new effort to expand free mental health care to teens across the five boroughs.

Listen to Podcast: Teens want therapy. Are they getting it? [[link removed]]

Podcast: Exploring psychosis, stigma, inclusion and well-being

What is psychosis and what do we know about it? Why do mental health challenges like psychosis still have a pervasive stigma and how can our community come together to change that?

Listen to Podcast: Exploring psychosis, stigma, inclusion and well-being [[link removed]]

Articles Working well, being well: Boosting mental health in the workplace (from Siemens)

Every individual deals with change and major life events in their own way. But we’re all united in the fact that every one of us will face challenges, complexities, and even crises in our lives. This is why we all need to take time to focus on our mental health and well-being as much as we might focus on diet, physical activity, or work.

Read Working well, being well: Boosting mental health in the workplace [[link removed]]

Spending 67 minutes daily outdoors boosts mental health (from earth.com)

We all know that feeling of being mentally drained, cooped up indoors, staring at screens with the walls closing in. Maybe it’s a long workday, a rainy weekend, or just the modern malaise of too much time inside. But what if the solution to better mental health was as simple as stepping outdoors?

Read Spending 67 minutes daily outdoors boosts mental health [[link removed]]

The bright side of sports: a systematic review on well-being, positive emotions and performance (from BMC Psychology)

The objective of this study is to conduct a systematic review regarding the relationship between positive psychological factors, such as psychological well-being and pleasant emotions, and sports performance.

Read The bright side of sports: a systematic review on well-being, positive emotions and performance [[link removed]]

The power of touch can ease depression and anxiety (from British Psychological Society)

Consensual touch isn’t just pleasant — it also has a measurable impact on our health and wellbeing, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis.

Read The power of touch can ease depression and anxiety [[link removed]]

Regular Events on the Web Meditation for older adults (free online meditation) (from Online Meditation Events), Wednesday 12 June, 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.

Book Meditation for older adults [[link removed]]

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.

Book Mental health tune-up [[link removed]]

Wednesdays Morning Meditation : Online Event (from Inner Space Edinburgh), Wednesday 5 June, 8.00am

Whether you are new to meditation or just want to enhance your practice, restore your positivity, energy and wellbeing.

This is a free live online guided meditation.

Book Wednesdays Morning Meditation [[link removed]]

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.

Book Online wellbeing workshops from Mid West Aries [[link removed]]

Poetry therapy (online session from Nation's Finest), Monday 3 June, 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.

Book Poetry therapy [[link removed]]

Music To remember (online event from Music Heals Minds), Tuesday 4 June, 7.00pm

These weekly virtual recitals with Nandani “Nani” Sinha and guests stimulate remembrance and gently invite reflection through familiar and bellowed songs.

Book Music To remember [[link removed]]

Laughing Fit - a weekly online laughter class for health & happiness (online group session from Jon Bockelmann-Evans), Tuesday 4 June, 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 [[link removed]]

International wellbeing support group (From Rain on Me), Monday 3 June, 5.30pm

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

Book International wellbeing support group [[link removed]]

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: [[link removed]]

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+.

More information on Sanctuary in Barnet [[link removed]]

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

Visit the Andy's Man Club Website [[link removed]]

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 [[link removed]]

Barnet Carers

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

Read about and book Barnet Carers events [[link removed]]

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 [[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

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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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