for better mental health
Running over 6 weeks, this course explores you and your baby’s wellbeing, understanding worries and anxiety, managing low mood as well as your support circle with signposting.
For more information and to self-refer click here.
Dates for these courses are as follows:
Monday 12th February – 10am -12pm (face-to-face)
Monday 25th March – 1pm- 3pm (face-to-face)
Tuesday 26th March-12pm-2pm (face-to-face)
Running over 6 weeks, this course explores you and your baby’s wellbeing, understanding worries and anxiety, managing low mood as well as your support circle with signposting.
For more information and to self-refer click here.
Dates for these courses are as follows:
Monday 12th February – 1pm -3pm (face-to-face)
Tuesday 13th February – 12pm-2pm (online)
Monday 25th March – 10am-12pm (face-to-face)
CYP has created downloadable resources to promote positive well-being and guidance on signposting in the festive period for children and young people.
Secondary – Festive Wellbeing Journal
Starting from the 6th November, you will be able to join us at the
Nucleus Arts Café for our new weekly drop-in group.
Creative Minds is open to all residents of North Kent (Gravesham, Swanley, Dartford and Medway.)
This is a safe space for those who wish to come along and engage in creative activities and wellbeing discussions.
We will provide tea, coffee and biscuits.
Every Monday (except bank holidays)
1.30pm—3.30pm
Nucleus Art Café
272 High Street
Chatham, ME4 4BP
Starting from Friday 22nd September for 12 weeks
Sessions are held on Fridays 10.30 – 13.30 (excl Bank holidays)
Meet at Gravesend Promenade, in front of the café.
The raffle has now ended and the draw will take place on 20th October.
Good luck!
The 10th October is World Mental Health Day and the theme for 2023
(set by the World Foundation of Mental Health) is ‘Mental health is a universal human right’.
North Kent Mind are hosting a stall at Bluewater from the 8th—10th October to raise awareness around this important day.
We will be on hand to engage in conversations with the local community about what support we can offer
those who feel they are struggling.
It is important to talk about your mental health and everyone should know that they are not alone.
We will also be holding a raffle.
Tickets start from as little as £2 and we have some amazing prizes to be won, just in time for Christmas!
Tickets can be purchased in person at our stall in Bluewater or through our website at the link below.
All money received goes back into our charity and towards running our services for our local community.
We hope to see you at our Bluewater event and thank you for your continued support.
North Kent Mind have partnered with Imago to deliver group wellbeing workshops over the summer holidays for children and young people aged 6-16.
The sessions will be fun and interactive, covering various topics such as understanding mental health, anxiety and self-help strategies, exploring friendships and bulling as well as self-esteem and resilience.
Participants are required to be patients registered under the following GP surgeries:
Stonecross & West Drive Surgery
King George Road Surgery
Reach Healthcare
Churchill Clinic
Matrix Medical Practice.
If you, or anyone you know could benefit from these sessions, please get in touch with the GP!
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:
How to put together:
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.
