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Have you ever heard of a breathing wand?

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Over the half-term period our Children and Young Persons Service hosted some sessions, including a creative activity for our attendees!

They made some breathing wands as a useful tool for mindfulness.

The focus being to visibly breathe in and blow out onto their wand and to watch it below, to regulate their breaths.

Interested in creating a breathing wand? They can be easily put together using household items. Give it a go!

Things you’ll need:

  • A toilet paper towel roll
  • Anything you’d like to use to decorate
  • Thin ribbon, or anything that is light enough to be moved by breath

How to put together:

  1. Cut a small strip off the top of one toilet paper roll
  2. Stick it to the top of another, shaped like an arch
  3. Attach your ribbons to the arch
  4. Decorate!
  5. Then you can start to use

World Mental Health Day – October 10th!

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Next Monday is World Mental Health Day.

1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem each year. But many of us don’t know where to reach out for support. Or how to share what we’re going through.

Sometimes, finding the words to say how we feel is tough. You can feel like you’re talking another language – one no one else understands. But we do.

If this speaks to you, speak to us.

Mindfulness and Men’s Group

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Here at North Kent Mind, we have lots of different Wellbeing Groups including Men’s Group, which encourages openly speaking about mental health and combining that with different activities. As well as Mindfulness, which teaches techniques for looking after your mental wellbeing.

Check out the attached posters to find out all information on those groups, along with venues and timings.

For information on all of our Wellbeing Groups, please select “Wellbeing Services” on the “Services” drop-down on our menu.

Self-referrals can be made here on the website.