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Local Update, 27 December 2021

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.

Please note there will be no newsletter next Monday 3 January. The next issue will be on 10 January

Inclusion Barnet Events and News

In case you missed it last week, you can still catch up on my blog article with tips on how to manage your mental health over the festive period.

Link here: Staff blog: Mental Health at Christmas - Inclusion Barnet [[link removed]]

There’s still time to enter this competition.

Barnet Enfield and Haringey MH Trust have been working for the last 4 years with Inclusion Barnet to put person centred care at the heart of what they do. Inclusion Barnet have helped BEH develop their Recovery Strategy by coproducing it with people who use services. This is the first ever Recovery Strategy for the Trust.

We’re helping the Trust launch the Recovery Strategy and Programme of work next year and we need YOU to tell us what Recovery means to you. We want ideas for logos and straplines, and for the Trust to hear your views. There will be prizes for a large selection of artists on the shortlist and the chance for the winner to work with a professional designer to create the finished logo. For more details please see the Enablement pages on the Trust website and the poster above.

Other Events and News Wellbeing Arts & Crafts Group, Tuesday 4 January, 2.30pm

Arts & Crafts is an informal social session where you can gather to work on your own arts and crafts and enjoy some company. Run by NHS Wellbeing (Norfolk and Waveney) but all welcome.

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Mindfulness for Health and Wellbeing, Thursday 30 December, 7.00 - 8.00pm

Martsang Kagyu London Buddhist Centre’s free online guided meditation classes follow an ancient tradition of mindfulness meditation that originates from the Buddha’s teachings.

Classes are suitable for beginners (Buddhist or non-Buddhist) and those who are more familiar with meditation.

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Eat, Exercise, Energise, Tuesday 28 December, 5.30 - 6.30pm

Weekly group session to understand how to make healthier lifestyle decisions and therefore improve your mental health.

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The following online mental health and wellbeing workshops are available to all adults anywhere Art Therapy Global Webinar (With Certificate & Free Creative Journal), daily 2.00 - 5.00pm and 7.00 - 10.00pm

Webinar exploring Art Therapy ideas and how to use it as a form of Creative Communication to heal yourself and others.

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Something for the Weekend, Thursdays, 12.00 - 1.00pm

Something for the Weekend is an interactive Disability Arts show produced by Together! 2012 CIC and aimed at everyone whose access to the outside world is limited by Covid-19, health conditions or caring commitments. The show is hosted by Disabled artists Ju Gosling aka ju90 and Julie Newman from East London and Robin Surgeoner and Tracy Surgeoner from the West Midlands, with regular presenter Sterre Ploeger and random appearances by anarchic cats and assistance dogs. All of the hosts and presenters are additionally vulnerable to Covid-19.

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Podcasts Griefcast: Funny People Talking About Death

Griefcast is a podcast that examines the human experience of grief and death - but with comedians, so it’s cheerier than it sounds.

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Bryony Gordon's Mad World

Intimate conversations about getting unwell - and getting better - with Bryony Gordon. From household names to ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Because mental health deserves to be talked about.

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Let's Talk About Mental Health

A weekly podcast full of practical ideas for better mental health

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Articles Expert tips for looking after your mental health this Christmas

Christmas is supposed to be a time of cheer, but we all know that the reality can look a little different.

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How to look after your mental health if you need to self-isolate this Christmas

With Covid-19 cases rapidly rising, many are being forced into self-isolation this Christmas

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UK organizations supporting mental health this Christmas

Christmas and the festive period are cause for celebration but they can also be some of the hardest times of year for others.

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Regular Events in Barnet 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.

Mind and Mood Support Group

Mind & Mood Support Group has returned to face to face meetings at 55 Christchurch Avenue, London N12 0DG. To enquire about becoming a new member, please contact either Peter or Sandra below.

Peter Sartori e: [[email protected]]

Sandra Turner e: [[email protected]]

Both Peter Sartori and Sandra Turner have extensive experience of the mental health system.

We are an independent support group, run by ex service users, for service users, their carers and supporters.

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 Turn2Me [[link removed]] - free online Support Groups 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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