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Local Update, 17 January 2022
Barnet Voice for Mental Health
020 3475 1314
[email protected]
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 Events and News
Who wants to go to bed at 8pm every day?
Our Co-Chair, Jennifer Pearl, recently wrote a blog for Think Local Act National, a national partnership of more than 50 organisations committed to transforming health and care through personalisation and community-based support. The article is about lack of flexibility in care services for disabled people who need support with bedtime routines.
We imagine that being forced to go to bed early must further impact disabled people’s mental health. It would cause further isolation and prevent participation in social activities that can be a lifeline for many of us.
Other Events and News
InsideOut Wellbeing Series: The Body & Mind Connection in Mental Health 2, Thursday 20 January, 12.00 - 1.00pm
A session on the body and mind connection in mental health.
Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar, Tuesday 18 January, 1.00 - 2.00pm
Suicide prevention in the Covid era - recent findings from the national confidential inquiry
Rediscover Your Confidence The Antidote To Good Mental Health Webinar, Tuesday 18 January, 7.00 - 8.30pm
In this Masterclass, you'll learn some essential strategies to boost confidence, retake control of your future during uncertain and challenging times
How to Deal with the Down Moments in Life, Monday 17 January, 12.00 - 1.00pm
A discussion looking at the positive things we can do to be more resilient.
How to strengthen our mental fitness - Your Best Year Yet, Wednesday 19 January, 12.00 - 12.45pm
This webinar will look at how to maximise the positives and reduce the negatives of expectations, planning, visualisation, group support, SMART goals, and motivational factors.
The following online mental health and wellbeing workshops are available to all adults anywhere
Podcasts
Meditation Minis Podcast
Short guided meditations to calm your anxiety, overcome negative thinking, increase your confidence, and more.
Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson explore the practical science of lasting well-being, and teach you how to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get the most out of life. New conversations every Monday.
Articles
Writing as therapy: Five reasons why you should pick up a pen and paper for your wellbeing
Have you ever written a diary, or taken up journalling in the morning?
During Woman’s Hour’s programme dedicated to writing and putting your life on the page, the psychotherapist and author Julia Samuel explored the idea of writing as therapy.
Here are her five reasons why embracing writing could have a positive impact on your health and wellbeing.
Mental health professionals have advice for handling another pandemic winter
As another winter COVID-19 surge ramps up, three mental health professionals provide insights into handling the emotional challenges of this moment.
Social Media Is an Incredibly Powerful Mental Health Tool--When Used the Right Way
These three simple keys will help you unlock your potential in 2022.
Study finds avid fantasy football fans face mental health risk
Avid players of fantasy football suffer negative effects on their mental health, researchers have found.
Sports psychologists at Nottingham Trent University said fans who engaged most with the game were more likely to suffer low mood and anxiety.
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
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
- Turn2Me - free online Support Groups
- 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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