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Local Update, 7 February 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
User Voice Forum
A reminder of our next monthly informal catchup online on Wednesday 9th February 6 to 7pm. Anyone who is based in Barnet can join if you are disabled, have a mental health condition or long-term health condition or care for someone else that does.
This month we will be discussing what we wish other people knew about the barriers we face.
Please let us know of accessibility needs in advance.
Inclusion Barnet User Voice Forum Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Other Events and News
Mental Health and Nutrition: How To Eat For Your Mood, Wednesday 9 February, 7.00 - 8.00pm
Certain foods help and hinder the nervous system and can make symptoms of anxiety and insomnia feel worse. Learn how to support your mental health with how you eat in this exciting free talk.
In Conversation | Nick Dolding on NHS Talking Therapies, Friday 11 February, 4.00 - 4.30pm
Join award-winning portrait and advertising photographer Nick Dolding for an interview and BTS on his project with the NHS, Talking Therapies. This talk is supported by Sony.
Nick will discuss his journey into photography, and how this project came about. We will discuss how to work on a Mental Health awareness piece, and working with real-world subjects in a sensitive manner.
Insights Into Black Men's Mental Health - An interactive discussion, Monday 7 February, 1.00 - 2.30pm
To celebrate Race Equality Week, LSBU's EDI team invites you to join this informative & interactive event featuring guest speakers Nathaniel Pamah and Professor Patrick Vernon OBE.
Talk for Health Taster: Learn to Talk for a Fit Mind, Thursday 10 February, 4.00 - 6.00pm
This Taster will give you a chance to experience some of the four key learning areas of the Talk for Health full programme:
Open and truthful talking
Empathic listening
Basic counselling skills
How to set up an ongoing group to take care of your own wellbeing and enable others to do so
Barnet Yoga Circle
Free Yoga classes in Hendon, including Chair Yoga every Friday at 11.00am.
More information:-
Whatsapp:- +44 7766 018731
Email:- [email protected]
Online mental health and wellbeing workshops available to all adults anywhere
Podcasts
An Open Mind with Liza Soberano
Join Liza Soberano and take a journey with people from all walks of life to talk about their mental and behavioural health, and break the stigma surrounding these essential aspects of our wellbeing.
The 16 Best Mental Health Podcasts To Help You Cope With Anxiety, Depression, And More
Learn new ways to deal and feel less alone in your struggles.
Articles
These brain foods can boost your mental health
Links between food and our physical health are well reported, but what about our mental wellbeing
7 Simple Happiness Hacks You Can Do On A Commute
Try these self-care tips when you're en route into work – and feel your mood lift asap.
Expert Tips To Boost Your Mental Health
How you handle everyday challenges can have a big impact on your overall wellbeing – but sometimes, even the smallest adversities can tip you over the edge, turning a good day into a bad one. For some simple ways to reduce stress levels and dial down your anxiety, here are the views of five mental health experts…
Politicians Say It’s Time to Live With Covid. Are You Ready?
As countries declare endemicity and drop restrictions, how does a battered and bruised society embrace a sudden return to normality?
Rylan Clark reveals mental health struggles during social media break: ‘I never thought that I’d get so bad’
The TV presenter, 33, opened up about the difficulties he had faced after taking time off social media following his split from husband Dan Neal.
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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