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Local Update, 31 October 2022
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
Mental Health and Nutrition: How To Eat For Your Mood (From Michaella Mazzoni Nutrition), Wednesday 2 November, 7.30 - 8.30pm
Have you noticed a link between certain foods and how you feel? Learn how to support mental health with food with award winning nutritionist
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 Sam Brown at [email protected]
Mental Health in Focus: The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service (From The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service) , Wednesday 2 November, 12.00 - 1.00pm
Funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, this service helps people who are struggling at work or off sick due to mental health conditions. It's confidential, provides nine months work-focused support tailored to the individual’s needs, at no cost to you.
Join this free webinar to find out how they can support you and your employees.
Book Mental Health in Focus: The Access to Work Mental Health Support Service
Financial Wellbeing and Mental Health - Talk Money Week (From Our Mind's Work), Wednesday 2 November, 9.00 - 10.00am
This Mental Health and Financial Wellbeing webinar is designed to increase your understanding of the impacts financial stress can have on employees and how poor mental health can impact an employees relationship with their finances and the impact it can have on productivity.
Book Financial Wellbeing and Mental Health - Talk Money Week
Online mental health and wellbeing workshops available to all adults anywhere from Mid West Aries
Book Mid West Aries online mental health and wellbeing workshops
How to prioritise self-care when working in music (From Help Musicians), Monday 31 October, 11.00am - 12.00pm and fortnightly after that.
While a career in music can be fun and rewarding, it can also create difficult conditions in which to look after your mental wellbeing. Long periods spent away from home, lifestyle factors, irregular work, financial difficulties, isolating work conditions, and lack of routine all have the potential to exacerbate any struggles you may already be experiencing. These situations can have a very real impact on your ability to fully engage with and to enjoy what you do. Developing coping strategies to overcome these difficult moments will help you keep alive your love for your profession, allowing you to enjoy more fully the amazing parts of working in music and make the most of your career in the long term.
Singing For Mindfulness and Mental Wellbeing (From Crawley Mindfulness Centre), Wednesdays 6.00 - 7.00pm
An hour of singing for the soul. Victoria will share with you some short, simple but deeply nourishing or uplifting songs that will go in easily, no matter what your experience. Attendees are muted for the songs which means you can sing out loud without any inhibition! And even ad lib over the top if you want! Attendees can also keep videos off if preferable.
Living Well: Improving Wellbeing, Managing Stress and Building Resilience (From Barry Jackson), For 5 weeks starting Tuesday 1 November
Living Well is a five-week course that explores ways to help people thrive and grow in the busyness and stresses of life today.
During the course, they will look at some of the causes of stress and explore how to improve wellbeing and increase the ability to cope with stress by developing:
Physical Wellbeing,
Mental Wellbeing,
Emotional Wellbeing,
Relational Wellbeing and
Spiritual Wellbeing
Book Living Well: Improving Wellbeing, Managing Stress and Building Resilience
Insight into Creative Psychotherapy (Expressing Emotions Creatively) (From Crawley Mindfulness Centre), Monday 31 October, 6.00 - 7.00pm
A chance to express yourself creatively, using creative therapeutic techniques and exercises facilitated by Dramatherapist Emma-Jo. These classes provide insight into ways you can include creativity in your life to help process emotions, trauma, to aid healing, stress, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed and more, within creative methods to aid safety. Guided meditations will be used throughout and a chance to check in with yourself, providing a space to just 'be' in a world where we are constantly having to 'do'.
The cost of living crisis is impacting the mental wellbeing of your staff (From Claro Money), Thursday 3 November, 9.30 - 10.30am
Money-related stress is impacting performance at work, causing many to leave for higher salaries elsewhere. As the cost of living crisis continues, employees are turning to the workplace for more support. When a pay rise isn’t an option, but you want to support your teams, what else can you do?
This webinar will cover both the psychological and financial elements that are impacting your employees' wellbeing, featuring two experts in their fields.
Book The cost of living crisis is impacting the mental wellbeing of your staff
Addictive Eaters Anonymous online meetings, Thursdays 6.30 - 7.30am and Fridays 7.00 - 8.00pm
Addictive Eaters Anonymous (AEA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from addictive eating.
AEA has members who have suffered from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating. Many have been underweight, overweight or obese; others were people of average weight yet suffered with an obsession with food. Members may have used exercise and other substances to try and control their weight. Before coming to AEA, members found that they were powerless over food, and unable to stop the food obsession.
Group Brain Dump for your Mental Wellbeing (From Evolve Recovery), Friday 4 November, 7.00 - 10.00pm
When you have 101 things on your mind & cannot see the woods for the trees..Join this online event to mentally free yourself & prepare for the month ahead!
Journaling for well-being (From Gemma Brown Coaching), Monday 7 November, 8.30 - 9.00am
A free workshop community to inspire you on your journaling journey - join for new techniques and monthly themed prompts
Introduction to Social & Therapeutic Horticulture (From Sow the City), Tuesday 1 November, 7.00 - 8.00pm
Exploring the fascinating world of gardening for wellbeing.
Podcasts
Podcast. Don't Go It Alone: Mental Health Needs Company w/ Curt Thompson (From Beyond the Forum)
How do we form more resilient relationships that make us healthier and more connected?
Listen to Don't Go It Alone: Mental Health Needs Company w/ Curt Thompson
Health Check Podcast: Understanding mental health stigma (From the Straits Times)
Mental health stigma is what happens when a person with a mental illness is seen in a negative light. It can lead to discrimination, as a person may be treated differently because of his or her mental illness. This stigma often stems from a lack of understanding of mental illness.
Listen to Health Check Podcast: Understanding mental health stigma
Video. Mental health: Footballer Joe Bryan speaks about anxiety (From the BBC)
Fulham defender Joe Bryan, who is on loan at Nice, talks to BBC's Kimberley Boak about anxiety and the importance of speaking about mental health.
Articles
Facebook Caused Poor Mental Health From the Beginning (From Psychology Today)
New research explores mental health in facebook's early days.
Half of UK workers suffering mental health issues (From the HR Director)
A survey has found that half of UK workers have experienced mental health problems in the last three years, with 41% having taken time off work in the last twelve months as a result.
Young people’s mental health bolstered by nature projects, report says (From the Guardian)
Participants in £33m scheme that improved 3,000 community spaces note confidence and wellbeing boost
Read Young people’s mental health bolstered by nature projects, report says
4 ways to protect your mental health on social media (From World Economic Forum)
The recent inquest into the death of British teenager Molly Russell in 2017 has concluded that the 14-year-old “died from an act of self harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content”. For some people, this ruling will be confirmation of what they have long suspected or indeed experienced: that being on social media can be detrimental to your mental health.
Michael Hooper in line for swift Wallabies recall after mental health break (From the Guardian)
After withdrawing from Australia’s Rugby Championship opener in August due to mental-health concerns, the Wallabies’ most-capped captain returned to full training this week.
Read Michael Hooper in line for swift Wallabies recall after mental health break
Menopause and Mental Health (From Manchester Mind)
Menopause is not just about hot flushes and forgetfulness. There are a whole host of physical, and emotional symptoms that come along with this stage of life.
Mental Health and Academia: What Can Departments and Individuals Do? (From Daily Nous)
There appears to be a mental health crisis in academia, especially among graduate students. Some of its contributing factors are discussed in this article, with the hope of soliciting suggestions for steps departments or individuals can take to help.
Read Mental Health and Academia: What Can Departments and Individuals Do?
Why every day should be World Mental Health Day at work (From People Management)
Employees’ psychological wellbeing should be a focus for organisations all year round, not just on awareness days, argues Paula Allen
Read Why every day should be World Mental Health Day at work
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
- 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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