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Local Update, 13 March 2023
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.
Please note there will be no newsletter next week due to staff annual leave.
Events and News from the Web
Barnet Service User and Carer Forum
Date: 16th March 2023
Runs on the third Thursday of every month
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Topic: Barnet Expert by Experience Café – starting soon
Speaker: Ella Goldberg
Barnet Mental Health services want to hear what you have to say about Adult Mental Health services. We are setting up a regular forum and need you to get involved to feedback your experiences and share your ideas. The forum encourages and promotes service users and carers working alongside staff to coproduce services.
Microsoft Teams, join by clicking the link or entering the details below. MS Teams link is also available on the BEH trust website. Click here to join the meeting.
Or call in (audio only) +44 20 3321 5208,,325359623# United Kingdom, London
Phone Conference ID: 325 359 623#
Contact Jess Lashko at [email protected] to request the MS Teams link, or if you need additional support to attend the forum.
Mental Health in the Workplace- Compassionate Colleagues (From Iungo Solutions), Wednesday 15 March, 10.00am - 12.00pm
From this webinar you will achieve:-
A Basic understanding of mental health.
Learning to talk and communicate about mental health in the workplace.
Find out about the steps you can take to help destigmatize the topic of mental health in your workplace.
Learning what to say and what not to say to a colleague who is struggling with their mental health.
Book Mental Health in the Workplace- Compassionate Colleagues
The relationship between mental health and sleep (From the Sleep Charity), Tuesday 14 March, 11.00am - 12.00pm
What workplaces can do to understand and promote the importance of sleep for mental health
Techniques to Improve Mental Health - Parent Workshop (From Ben Garrad - Blues Team - Action for Children), Thursday 16 March, 1.00 - 2.00pm
A workshop designed to give parents techniques to enable them to support their child's mental health.
My Whole Self: Empowering managers to manage well (From MHFA England), Tuesday 14 March, 10.30 - 11.30am
Join this live webinar on 14 March to celebrate My Whole Self Day, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England’s campaign for workplace culture change.
Empowering employees to bring their whole self to work, by bringing together diversity and inclusion with health and wellbeing, you can drive positive transformation in workplace mental health and performance.
Supporting Mental Health: Confidence & Self Esteem Building (From Ideal for All), Wednesday 15 March, 2.00 - 4.00pm
This session provides you with information around confidence and self-esteem and will provide you with ways in increasing your confidence.
Book Supporting Mental Health: Confidence & Self Esteem Building
Self Discovery Workshop (From Lashara Wood and Sam Pope), Wednesday 15 March, 7.00 - 8.30pm
This is a 90 minute self discovery workshop on how to use soul psychology tarot and journaling to improve your relationship with self.
CommUNITY Barnet AGM - Connecting Communities (From Community Barnet), Thursday 16 March, 4.00 - 6.00pm
CommUNITY Barnet Annual General Meeting will take place online on Zoom. All are welcome.
They have a packed agenda, with a range of speakers on current and important issues, including safeguarding, emergencies, mental wellbeing and disabilities.
It’s an opportunity to connect with other community organisations, residents, and staff from statutory services.
Podcasts
Podcast: Access All: Disability News and Mental Health (From the BBC)
Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch.
Listen to Podcast: Access All: Disability News and Mental Health
Podcast: Happy Being Well (From Rita Farruggia)
How to reprogram our minds to take massive action towards more success and much more!
Articles
Managers impact our mental health more than doctors, therapists — and same as spouses (From HR News)
While 9 in 10 HR and C-suite leaders believe working for their company has a positive impact on employees’ mental health, only half of employees agree.
Read Managers impact our mental health more than doctors, therapists — and same as spouses
Medical body NICE backs online mental health treatments (From the BBC)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended eight online therapies for anxiety and depression.
NICE says the therapies have the potential to help more than 40,000 people in the UK.
Each therapy must come with a formal assessment from an NHS therapist in order for it to be recommended.
Read Medical body NICE backs online mental health treatments
‘Do the little things’: why St David’s advice is good for your mental health (From the Conversation)
A small thing may not have a decisive effect alone, but when many are put together, they can make an overall difference.
Read ‘Do the little things’: why St David’s advice is good for your mental health
Physical activity can help mental health in pre-teen years (From University of Strathclyde)
Regular physical activity can improve adolescents’ mental health and help with behavioural difficulties, research involving the University of Strathclyde suggests.
Engaging in regular moderate to vigorous physical activity at age 11 was associated with better mental health between the ages of 11 and 13, the study found.
Read Physical activity can help mental health in pre-teen years
Travel tested my limits, helped me resolve my traumas and gave me new perspectives: how travel impacted my mental health (From Conde Nast Traveller)
Travelling the world helped me want to live when I didn't want to
Does gene editing hold the key to improving mental health? (From the Guardian)
Research suggests traumatic childhood experiences embed themselves in our brains and put us at risk of mental illness, but epigenetic editing may offer us hope of removing them
Read Does gene editing hold the key to improving mental health?
Moving back in with parents boosts ‘boomerang’ adults’ mental health (From the Guardian)
Returning home was once seen as something shameful but new research finds a benefit
Read Moving back in with parents boosts ‘boomerang’ adults’ mental health
Exercise More Effective Than Medicines to Manage Mental Health (From Neuroscience News)
University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications.
Read Exercise More Effective Than Medicines to Manage Mental Health
Regular Events on the Web
Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety (From Step8up Mindly), Tuesday 14 March, 12.30 - 1.00pm
Join this session each week to know how easy it is to manage day to day mental wellbeing, especially general anxiety, using methods which are practical and easy.
Book Mindly Weekly - Practical Tips on Mental Wellbeing & General Anxiety
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.
Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents (From Jounita Wright), Thursday 16 March, 7.00 - 10.00pm
This is a free online event for any parent/carer of adolescents aged 13-20 concerned with behaviour change.
Book Psychologically Informed Reflective Practice for Parents
Online ADHD Support Group (From Tim Kiver Foundation), Tuesday 14 March, 7.30 - 9.00pm
A safe place for anyone interested in ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in ANY way to share experiences and learn more about:
• What ADHD is
• How ADHD affects peoples every day life
• Ways to manage ADHD symptoms
• How to seek medical help for ADHD
• The Facts and Fiction that surround ADHD
International Wellbeing Support Group (From Rain on Me), Monday 20 March, 5.30pm
A free, international safe space to vent and grow with people who understand and accept you.
Insight into Creative Psychotherapy (Expressing Emotions Creatively) (From Holistic Wellness Community), Monday 13 March, 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'.
Singing For Mindfulness and Mental Wellbeing (From Holistic Wellness Community), Wednesday 15 March, 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.
Regular Events in Barnet
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
Barnet Carers
Barnet Carers provides support and information for unpaid, informal, carers across the London Borough of Barnet. Includes yoga, meditation and mindfulness.
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.
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]
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
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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